Tennis gear reviews cover racquets, strings, shoes, and bags tested for durability, performance, and value across court types and playing styles.
There are, by the USRSA's own accounting, only a few thousand people who hold the Master Racquet Technician certification worldwide.
If you have played with multifilament long enough to trust it, you already know its ceiling: the comfort you love starts to feel like a lack of control on your biggest swings.
You have two racquets in front of you. On paper they are nearly twins: both 98 square inches, both around 11 ounces strung, both 16x19 patterns, both listed with a mid-60s stiffness figure.
Pick up any spec sheet for a "control" racquet aimed at improving players and one number keeps showing up in the 62 to 66 range: the RA, or frame stiffness rating.
The most useful thing we can tell a Clash 100 Pro v1 owner is this: the v2 is the tighter, more controlled frame, and most of you should keep the racquet you already own.
Ask a stringer to lace your frame and the first question is almost always the same: "What tension?" It is a strange question to answer on the spot, because for most club players tennis strings are…