Tennis racquets for all levels: frame materials, weight, string patterns, and swing speeds. Honest reviews and specs without the marketing.
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.
Wilson refreshed its 97-square-inch flagship and made one decision that matters more than any of the marketing copy: they pulled Countervail out of the layup.
Leylah Fernandez plays a Yonex VCORE 100 — the 300-gram, 100-square-inch spin frame — not the VCORE 98 that most of her tour-level peers reach for.
The number we keep coming back to is 95 — as in 95 square inches, the head size on the Yonex VCORE 95 that Felix Auger-Aliassime plays.
The headline thing about Daniil Medvedev's racquet is that the Tecnifibre Tfight 305 on the shelf is not, in any meaningful sense, the Tfight he's actually playing with.
The number to start with is 18 by 20 — that's the string pattern on Sabalenka's Wilson Blade 98 v9, and it's probably the single spec doing the most work in her game.