Get a grip

Lately I’ve noticed many manufacturers are coming out with thinner replacement grips. Is this an emerging trend? I certainly hope so. Before I began testing a lot of racquets, I never knew how much I liked to feel the bevels of a racquet handle. The bevels are simply the edges that define the handle’s shape.
To [...]

Signum Pro Hyperion 17 String Review

Signum Pro-Poly Plasma has been a popular polyester string, both with our play testers as well as with members of our Talk Tennis message boards (Editor’s note: It was at the request of our Talk Tennis members that we tried Signum strings and added them to stock). Signum Pro’s Hyperion 17 is one of Signum’s [...]

Are your dogs barking? It’s time to listen

Maybe your feet are doing more than barking. I know there are times when mine are screaming.
However, I do my best to limit those occasions, which means good socks hold a spot very close to my heart.
The importance of socks hit me at a young age. You see, as a youngster I once threatened to [...]

Is it a Fling, or is it Love?

I was inspired to write this blog by the Talk Tennis thread “Yonex 110% Loyalty Tour.”
Since college, I’ve been honeymooning and breaking up with a plethora of racquets, but have had the strongest relationship with the Yonex RQ iS 1 Tour Light to date.

My timeline of racquets:
Racquet / Weight (strung) / Balance / TW [...]

String review: Topspin Cyberflash 1.25mm

Let me start off by saying that after this string test I believe the Topspin Cyberflash string is an excellent polyester string at a great value. It is a co-polyester monofilament, similar to a Luxilon Big Banger ALU Power or Signum Pro Poly-Plasma, which is designed to enhance the already durable polyester string with added [...]