Tennis racquets for all levels: frame materials, weight, string patterns, and swing speeds. Honest reviews and specs without the marketing.
There is a belief that circulates in every stringing room and club-forum thread, and it goes roughly like this: the racquet the pros play is a different, better object than the one on the wall at…
Ask around any stringing room or gear forum and you'll hear the same warning, usually delivered with a knowing smile: the pro player racquet setup you see on TV has almost nothing to do with the frame…
Reviewer note (first person, one case): A few years ago I bought the retail version of a frame my favorite baseliner supposedly used, took it to my local stringer, and asked him to match it to the…
There's no such thing as a women's tennis racquet in the engineering sense — no frame is molded differently for women — but there is a real question hiding inside the marketing category, and it's the…
Somewhere between the first racquet a shop hands a beginner and the frame an advanced player commits to for years, there is a purchase that goes wrong more often than any other: the second racquet.
If you strip away the name on the throat, a pro-signature frame is just a spec sheet — and this tennis racquet review is about reading that spec sheet honestly before you spend $250 chasing an ATP…