Yonex racquets and strings tested for spin, control, and durability across different playing styles and skill levels with graded reviews.
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.
Most of what the internet "knows" about Jessica Pegula's setup traces back to a single retailer bundle page — which is a thinner foundation than the confidence around it suggests.
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.
Navarro plays a spin-marketed frame as a flat, early-ball baseliner — and that's the puzzle worth unpacking.
A couple of weeks ago we picked a Yonex Ezone 98 off a demo rack at a club shop, put it on the scale unstrung, and got 305 grams on the nose.
If you watch Bencic redirect a 130 km/h serve down the line off a half-step, the question that surfaces — the one club players keep asking us — is whether the racquet she's holding is doing anything…