Yonex racquets and strings tested for spin, control, and durability across different playing styles and skill levels with graded reviews.
Every marketing pitch for Yonex racquets eventually lands on the same number: 7%. That's the figure Yonex publishes for how much larger the sweet spot of its Isometric head shape is compared to a…
Every spin-obsessed baseliner has heard the pitch by now: the Yonex VCORE 98 is "the spin racquet," a frame whose isometric head, Aero Fin grommets, and slippery cross-section will add revolutions to…
The Yonex VCORE 98 sits in the crowded, expensive middle of the modern player's-racquet market: a 98-square-inch, 305-gram frame that Yonex pitches as its spin weapon, priced in the $250–270 range…
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.
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…
Osaka swings what looks like a Yonex EZONE 98 — but the frame in her bag is almost certainly a customised pro build, not the EZONE 98 you'd pull off a shop wall.