Tennis string and racquet testing methodology: how we grade gear, our measurement protocols, and the lab standards behind honest reviews.
We started with one ball, one tape measure, and a kitchen ladder. The protocol calls for dropping a ball from 254 centimeters onto a granite slab and reading the top of the rebound against a…
Two frames of the same advertised model sat on the diagnostic bench last spring — a current-generation control frame and the version it replaced.
Most of the gear writing you will read about court shoes inherited its vocabulary from a source nobody checks anymore.
You are standing in a pro shop or hovering over a checkout page with a shoe that costs as much as eight sets of strings, and a question you have probably asked yourself before: how do I know the…
One frame, one scale, one surprise The first thing we did with a brand-new Wilson Pro Staff RF97 v13 was put it on a jeweler's scale, unstrung, no overgrip, no dampener.