Tourna Big Hitter Silver Review

Playtesting Tourna Big Hitter 17 was like riding a rollercoaster for me. I had so many up and down feelings about Unique’s Big Hitter Silver. I found it to be a very pleasurable poly to string. Once the string was out of the package and uncoiled I had no issues with recoiling or kinking; the [...]

Rediscovering the Yonex RD Ti 80

It’s funny how a racquet being re-released or updated with a new cosmetic can inspire one to go out and hit with it again. Such was the case with Yonex releasing a new cosmetic for the RD Ti 80. It was actually the third time I’ve been inspired to hit the RD Ti 80, making [...]

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 [...]

Volkl Cyclone String Review

Guest blogger and Open level player Andy Gerst puts Volkl’s Cyclone string through its paces in this review. A great new poly string being introduced to the market is the Volkl Cyclone string. It is a co-polymer polyester monofilament, designed to mimic the durability and control-oriented playability of a polyester while maintaining a bit more [...]

As the ball spins

If you like to hit with a lot of spin, this is a good time to be a tennis player. Today’s racquets are so fast, and today’s strings offer so much grip, at times the amount of spin that can be generated just seems wrong (but so much fun). Of course, as players we still [...]