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Karen Khachanov’s Racquet – Player Profile
Updated 28th October 2024Karen Khachanov is a 28-year-old Russian tennis player with seven ATP Tour singles titles and a career high ranking of 8th, but what racquet does Khachanov use? Karen Khachanov’s Tennis Racquet Khachanov is using the Wilson Blade from 2015 with 18×20 string pattern. Weirdly, Wilson hasn’t given him a paint job version […]
Arm-Friendly Tennis Racquets
One of the most common injuries in tennis is tennis elbow and it can be caused by a number of things: poor conditioning, bad technique, wrong equipment. Let’s start by looking at more arm-friendly racquets. Most tennis racquets that are released today are relatively stiff. The reason for this is to help out with power […]
What is David Ferrer’s Blacked-Out Racquet?
Former world number 3 David Ferrer played the longest match of the French Open 2017 so far when he beat Donald Young after 4,5 hours. But what blacked-out racquet did he use? Tennisnerd previously reported about Ferrer’s move from his Prince Exo Tour 100 to a Babolat Pure Drive Plus, but yesterday he showed up with […]
Tennis Racquets of the ATP Professionals
Do you wonder about the tennis racquets of ATP Professionals? It is rarely the racquets they advertise… The Tennis Racquets of ATP Professionals Pro tennis racquets are most often something else with a paint job of the latest commercial racquet model. This post will help you get insight into what racquets the tennis pros actually […]
The Racquet Honeymoon Period
For us tennis nerds there is a period we need to beware of and that’s the racquet honeymoon. Those first weeks when we believe we’ve finally found the one… This might lead us into buying an extra racquet and vowing to play this racquet until the end of time because no other racquet has ever […]
New Federer Shoe: NikeLab Oscillate Evolve x RF
Roger Federer is one of the strongest brands in sports and Nike want to use the massive investment they’ve put into the RF brand to the max. Here is the NikeLab Oscillate Evolve x RF. The Nikelab Oscillate Evolve x RF will be released on NikeLab tomorrow May 25th. It will be available (I assume briefly […]
Rafael Nadal’s 2017 French Open Outfit
Rafael Nadal is trying to win his 10th French Open title this year and he’s doing it in his Nike apparel and with his Babolat Pure Aero racquet and Babolat RPM Blast strings. Nadal is cruising through the clay court season so far with only one match lost, against Dominic Thiem (clicking the name will take […]
Djokovic Is a New Lacoste Crocodile
Crocodile? Yes, the iconic crocodile clothing brand Lacoste has now reached a deal with Novak Djokovic in time for the French Open. I think this is a pretty good match actually. It was hard to get behind the Uniqlo wear that Djokovic sported and the Sergio Tacchini tattoo-inspired shirts felt a bit out of character. […]
Babolat French Open Edition 2017
It’s time for the second slam of the year – the French Open (Roland Garros) and it’s also time for Babolat to release their French Open line of racquets and apparel. Babolat usually produces specific editions for French Open and Wimbledon and this year is no different with for example the Babolat Pure Aero French Open […]
TW Playtesters Switching to Yonex DR 98 Plus
If you are a tennis nerd, I’m sure you’re familiar with Tennis Warehouse. In a recent video two reviewers (Andy & Chris) announce they are switching to Yonex DR 98 Plus. Lots of people follow the Tennis Warehouse Youtube channels so I’m sure these will affect the sales of the Yonex DR 98 Plus a great deal. […]
