Eco-friendly strings are here. Luxilon Eco Spin is the Belgian string brand’s third offering in this segment where 90% of the string is made from PET bottles. We have previously tested Luxilon Eco Power and Eco Rough. These are decent options, but we weren’t super enthused by the performance of Eco Power, and Eco Rough struggled with tension maintenance. Will Luxilon Eco Spin be different in this respect? What is Luxilon Eco Spin? This is the marketing text from Wilson.com: Eco Spin is a durable polyester string designed for ultimate precision and tension maintenance. The pentagon (fancy word for five-sided …
Jonas Eriksson
Jonas Eriksson
Jonas has been known as "tennis nerd" mainly for his obsessing about racquets and gear. Plays this beautiful sport almost every day.
We talk about a new string from HEAD in my latest podcast with Dennis Fabian. Dennis is the Global Business Manager for racquet sports. Besides talking about this exciting new string from HEAD, we also got into their racquet silo, new HEAD racquets like Boom and Speed and other gear related topics. Podcast with Dennis Fabian A few of the questions we discuss is: Dennis is a tennis industry veteran starting at Prince and has been working for HEAD for close to a decade. I appreciate his openness to come on the podcast multiple times to share his knowledge. Listen to …
The topic of playing with heavier racquets garnered lots of attention on our YouTube channel. But why use heavier racquets? If you are curious about the conversations Daniela Rutkowski and I had about heavier racquets on YouTube, you can check out part 1 and part 2. The definition of heavy is not straightforward, but in today’s racquet landscape, you can say a heavy racquet is any racquet above 305g unstrung. What we talk about in the video is customizing your racquet to be as heavy as you can swing it efficiently during a two-hour match. The heavier the racquet, the …
Henrik is a Davis Cup string, racquet reviewer, and solid player. He has been on the podcast multiple times. Today we talk racquet madness with Henrik Wallensten. We start our conversation by laughing at how insane our behavior might seem to normal tennis players or the general population. The obsession with finding the right racquet for your game (check out our Tennisnerd Guide to Racquet and Strings for some guidance) can be laughable, frustrating and entertaining, all in one. At the same time it is a pretty harmless hobby to try racquets and strings in the eternal quest to find …
Do you like comfort, thin beams, but a more forgiving head size? Check out the New Prince Phantom Racquets. The new Prince Phantom racquets go from the silvery metallic color of the predecessor to a more green camo-inspired cosmetic. According to Henrik Wallensten, who has reviewed them for me, they look great in person. There will be a bunch of models released, but for now, only the heavier 320-gram Phantom 100X and the 290-gram lighter version are available from Tennis Warehouse Europe where you’ll find most of the best tennis racquets. Remember that you get 10% off if you buy …
Sadly, Nadal is not back on the courts, but he is making moves outside of it. Nadal invests in Playtomic and becomes a strategic shareholder and partner. The press release declaring that Nadal invests in Playtomic reaches us on April 8th. What is Playtomic? Playtomic is said to be the largest racket sports community in the world and the leading app for booking padel and tennis courts, boasting the largest racket player community worldwide. Nadal + Playtomic Nadal joins Playtomic as a shareholder. His investment represents financial support and strengthens the company’s mission to promote the practice of padel and tennis, connecting …
We had the feeling when we saw the taping. Alcaraz is out of the Monte Carlo Masters due to injury. We wish him speedy recovery! I briefly discussed this in our weekly segment, This Week in Tennis, on our YouTube channel. We have seen him bandage the elbow before, but it was the forearm this time. More exactly an injured pronator teres. This is what Carlitos had to say: “I have been working in Monte-Carlo and trying to recover until the last minute from an injured pronator teres in my right arm, but it was not possible and I cannot …
Craig Shapiro is a bit of a media icon on the tennis scene. He has been around the tour since the 90s, when he travelled as Andre Agassi’s personal racquet tech. Craig runs an excellent podcast where he interviews many professional tennis players. You can subscribe to it on the usual audio platforms. He also runs something he tongue-in-cheek calls an academy, which is more of an intense travel tribute to tennis. The next trip is to the Rome Masters tournament. When we connect, he has just returned to New York from the Sunshine Double, so we talk about his …
Fellow tennis nerd Johan is behind a new type of tennis ball machine system to improve your tennis called Fast Track Tennis. What is Fast Track Tennis? Fast Track Tennis Ball Machine is suitable for beginners to advanced players. Whether it is your first contact with tennis or whether you are an experienced tennis player and want to improve your technique and footwork, lots of fun is guaranteed. The benefit of this ball machine s that you can work on your game without access to a tennis court. You need a racquet and some balls, that is it. It is a way to groove your strokes …
Thanks to a fellow tennis nerd, we received a picture of the ATP Houston String Tensions. Here is what we found. Can you learn a lot from pro player string tension sheets? Hmmm…difficult to say. I guess you can be inspired that many professional tennis players use lower tensions than most club level players. What is the benefit of going down in tension? Better comfortBetter depthLarger sweet spot The main con is reduced control ATP Houston String Tension Sheet If we start from the top, there is no shock that Ben Shelton is using a high tension for his Poly …