Tennis racquets for all levels: frame materials, weight, string patterns, and swing speeds. Honest reviews and specs without the marketing.
Yonex built the Percept 97D around a single premise: give the technically sound player a frame that does nothing on its own and everything under a clean swing.
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.
A forum post is what sent us back to the spec sheets. An owner, self-rated 3.5, described the Yonex Percept 97D as "dead" — no free depth, balls dumping into the net on defensive slices, a serve that…
New in every catalog for about forty years now, "100% graphite" sits on racquet hangtags like a seal of quality.
The stock advice on the Wilson Clash 98 v2 is short and confident: if the v1 is working for you, keep it.
The best thing about the Wilson Clash 108 v2 for a beginner is the same thing advanced testers list as its flaw: it does not give you much feedback when you miss. It absorbs. It forgives.