Reddit mentions: The best tennis rackets

I started playing last year in August and have been playing quite a bit. I bought this racquet from a local tennis shop. A guy I was hitting with added some lead tape in various places to make it heavier. https://www.amazon.com/Wilson-Performance-Tennis-Racquet-Lightweight/dp/B0765CR73W

I feel I need a second racquet to have. I am playing 3-4 days a week. Still pretty inconsistent with it. I might be a 3.0 by now, but not sure.

I am 6 ft tall and 180 lbs. I move well on the court and can run down balls. My arms are decently long.

Any suggestions for a racquet? I am mostly playing doubles now but want to play more singles. I am looking at getting some demo racquets sent to me and trying some things.

Should I get a heavier racquet? Also, if it matters, I am primarily playing on Tru-Clay.

Thanks for the response!

I honestly just picked up whatever my dad had spare and we would play. It was somewhere around the 300g mark with a grip of 4^1/4. That suited me quite well.

I don't know what a good head size is or what I used. I'm guessing it was more of a standard size, whatever that was. Probably a tweener?

I also don't know where I could get good used racquets. This is the first time I'm actually venturing out on my own to buy equipment.

Edit: what would you think of this one?

What's your upper limit? I started playing seriously this April and I got this based on reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Head-Liquidmetal-Tennis-Racquet-Grip/dp/B000LGA3BY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319651247&sr=8-1 It's been AWESOME! Incredibly light and big head. I've loved it.

Just a personal recommendation (racquet preference obviously varies person-to-person) -- I've been playing with the Head Microgel Radical MP since I was in high school and it's really been a great "intermediate" racquet for me ever since (I cycle between three at the moment).


It's a little bit smaller than some other beginner/intermediate sized racquets at 98 sq/inches, but as you develop as a player the extra feel and control make a big difference. Best of all, it only retails for $89 these days even though it used to be a top-of-the-line racquet for Head.

I'm dating this girl who's a serious tennis player and I wanna get her a nice racquet as a gift but I'm not sure if she already has it. I went with this one if anyone's curious. Is it a good one?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00O087NTO/ref=ya_st_dp_summary

Of course, but I hardly think it's the same degree. Let's say yuour hobby is tennis. This racquet is $200. It's the same one Federer, one of the greatest players of all time, uses. I'm wiling to bet I could have several of them in my bag, custom strung, for less than that costume cost.

No, you're not wrong. Jewelry and the like are actually pretty good candidates for applications of amorphous metals. Here's some nonindustrial uses past and present: watches, watches again, tennis racquets (though from what I can tell, they moved away from this for other technology recently). It's been used in cell phones, casings for flash drives, and perhaps some other things.

The problem with using it too much is that it is expensive. So, unless you're dealing with very high value added products or where it is necessary, the economies of working with it are relatively poor. The materials are decently expensive, and the particular methods used in manufacturing didn't have super fantastic economies of scale. There's been efforts to develop cheaper alloys, as well as cheaper manufacturing processes, but it is still a work in progress.

I use this right now. My SO got a pair as a gift when I first mentioned I was wanting to start playing so we could play together. Neither of us knew anything about tennis racquets. I'm needing an upgrade now as one of them the frame snapped in the middle while hitting a ball, and the other has parts loose inside and rattles like crazy, and overall the specs really aren't what I want.

I didn't know that about tennis clubs, thanks! I've never actually been to one, but I'm in the process of moving so I could check one out when I get there. This may sound odd, but any advice on how to demo properly? I don't want to just go out and say "feels good" or "feels bad." I'm a novice to the point that hitting better or worse may be entirely random and not due to the racquet and I wouldn't be able to definitively tell.

The SU16 really works nicely it is compact and accurate. I carry either that or an ar pistol in one of these. The AR pistol fits without folding and there is a divider I use to store a few PMags.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F3BOM1O

http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/Wilson_K_Factor_KZero/descpageRCWILSON-KZERO.html

and

https://www.amazon.com/Wilson-Energy-Tennis-Racquet-without/dp/B003B15Q90


If you have to pick one, the one on the left is better.. at least it is made of graphite composite instead of aluminum.

Nope.

It's a cheap one.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00OY211PS/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1469314986&sr=8-9&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=graphene

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009YTCAA6/ref=mp_s_a_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1469314986&sr=8-13&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=graphene

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00L71LNS4/ref=mp_s_a_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1469314986&sr=8-14&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=graphene

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01HSHMFH8/ref=mp_s_a_1_21?ie=UTF8&qid=1469315215&sr=8-21&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=graphene&dpPl=1&dpID=51jSN7%2B8w7L&ref=plSrch

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00UNFITIC/ref=mp_s_a_1_36?ie=UTF8&qid=1469315346&sr=8-36&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=graphene&dpPl=1&dpID=41FgDy2v2nL&ref=plSrch

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00OYAM1O0/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469314986&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=graphene&dpPl=1&dpID=51ELbbEAlAL&ref=plSrch

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00JX0B5AC/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1469314986&sr=8-3&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=graphene&dpPl=1&dpID=411F%2BANptwL&ref=plSrch

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01CN0KG9O/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1469314986&sr=8-5&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=graphene&dpPl=1&dpID=41rPCuIfVHL&ref=plSrch

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00W4VR63W/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1469314986&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=graphene&dpPl=1&dpID=419KXBgq9lL&ref=plSrch

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00MMMT08M/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1469314986&sr=8-8&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=graphene&dpPl=1&dpID=41C5P6bC4jL&ref=plSrch

Etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Head-Tour-Pro-Tennis-Racquet/dp/B001M6MEPU

Cheap $20 racquet.

https://www.amazon.com/Babolat-Pure-Aero-Tennis-Racquet/dp/B013TK5EVC/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1549748889&sr=8-7&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=babolat+pure+aero&dpPl=1&dpID=31E59qEjSML&ref=plSrch

Product dimensions are 19.7x15.8x0.4, does that mean it is a junior racquet?

https://www.amazon.com/Head-Tennis-Racquet-Cover/dp/B000V7V0L0

http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/Head_Liquidmetal_8/descpageRCHEAD-LM8.html

http://www.amazon.com/Head-Liquidmetal-Tennis-Racquet-Grip/dp/B000OQBP7C

It's a bit of an unconventional racquet (huge head size), but a lot of beginner players started out using the HEAD Ti.S6

It's extremely light compared to normal racquets and helps with generating power with poor form.

I actually went and had a look at some of my books. I was a little off. Most of what I own is only about 3 dollars more expensive. However, I seem to remember not buying a book recently because the price difference was much worse than that.

Hell, we have items produced in Canada, that are sold in the US for less (including exchange rate) because it is a bigger market. It is sometimes more cost efficient to order the product from an online US retailer and pay shipping rather than buy from a Canadian retailer.

This isn't an example of that, but is an example of price differences of identical products on Amazon with just the .com switched to .ca.

$34 USD
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Strung-Jieling-Tennis-Racket/dp/B01G6SYIVQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487255399&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=tennis+racket&psc=1

$70 CDN
https://www.amazon.ca/Radical-Strung-Jieling-Tennis-Racket/dp/B01G6SYIVQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487255399&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=tennis+racket&psc=1

Price of the first one in CDN calculating US exchange rate is $44.36