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Gear.

Tennis gear reviews cover racquets, strings, shoes, and bags tested for durability, performance, and value across court types and playing styles.

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Gear ·7 min · July 2026

600D Is Not a Durability Rating: A Product Review of the Numbers on Tennis Backpacks

600. That is the number doing most of the work on the spec sheet of nearly every tennis backpack sold between roughly $80 and $200, and it is the number this product review is actually about.

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Gear ·7 min · July 2026

Tennis Backpack Product Review: The Tennis-Specific Features Are the Ones to Ignore

Most of what makes a tennis backpack "tennis-specific" is the part of it you should weigh least. That is an uncomfortable thing to open a product review with, because the tennis-specific parts are…

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Gear ·7 min · July 2026

Yonex EZONE Espresso Brown Edition: Is a Colorway Ever a Reason to Buy?

Here is the question we keep getting in one form or another: is a colorway ever a reason to buy a racquet?

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Gear ·10 min · July 2026

Tennis Racquet Selection: Pure Drive vs. Blade 98 vs. EZONE 98, and the Tradeoff Nobody Names for You

Good tennis racquet selection is less about finding the single best frame than about naming, out loud, what you are willing to give up.

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Community ·5 min · July 2026

Founder Credibility and the Tennis Community: What a "Certified Expert" Badge Actually Buys You

There are, by the USRSA's own accounting, only a few thousand people who hold the Master Racquet Technician certification worldwide.

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Strings ·5 min · July 2026

The First Polyester Strings for Players Leaving Multifilament: A Sourced Guide to the Transition

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.