When you’re reviewing as many racquets as I do your head and arms go a bit crazy after all. Which racquet is your “home” racquet? What racquet do you bring into a tournament? With all the testing going on at the moment it’s hard to now. Right now, I’m playing around with the Prince Phantom Pro 100P, the Babolat Pure Drive Tour Plus, the Angell K7 Red (review coming shortly) with various amounts of lead tape, the HEAD Liquidmetal Radical Tour and also a capped HEAD Graphene Radical Pro that I’ve borrowed from a friend. Specs are basically all over the place …
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There is a lot of lingo floating around tennis racquets. What is a polarized setup? What benefits does lead tape have? How important is swing weight etc? I will try my best to explain these concepts without becoming too technical. For those of you who want to delve into this subject and other racquet tech topics in great depth, there are books such as “Technical Tennis”, the Tennis Warehouse University website and some really interesting videos on the topic from a guy called Racquet Tech. I will try not to go too deeply into detail and instead aim to simplify and …
Is your racquet unstable? Do you like to change the weight or balance? You don’t need to buy a new one. Just try adding lead tape and you’ll racquet will play differently. I found this article on tennis warehouse which is quite good: Customizing Racquet Weight and Balance Buy Lead Tape here or at Tennis Express. Then I looked around some more and stumbled upon this text from a guy who calls himself “underdawg” which I think explains it all quite simply. “Imagine you just bought a new racquet but now you decide that it would be perfect if you …