Tennis racquets for all levels: frame materials, weight, string patterns, and swing speeds. Honest reviews and specs without the marketing.
A salesperson once told one of our editors that the racquet in his hand was "the most powerful frame on the market." The next salesperson, a week later, said the same thing about a different racquet.
There is a sentence we hear at the stringing bench at least once a week, usually from a 4.5 who has just bought a balance board off the internet: "head-light is for control, head-heavy is for power…
If you have been Googling at 11pm with a bag of frozen peas on your forearm, you already know the pitch: the wrong racquet is destroying your elbow, and the right one will save it.
You walk into the shop, or open the tab, and there are forty frames. Half of them promise more power, the other half more control, and a few promise both, which should be your first clue that the…
If you have walked into a pro shop in the last decade and said the word "spin," you were handed something with an open string pattern, an aerodynamic beam, and a price tag that assumed you believed…
If you are standing in a shop deciding whether to spend more on the "advanced" racquet because you intend to get good, the honest answer is that the advanced frame will probably make you play worse…