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the guile style I'm loving playing with one grip..."Australian grip," a la Mac, very slightly stronger than Continental. Mac and racquet testing videos of Granville at TW have been my inspiration. And because it's just fun to hit that way. That and badly tweaking my back 2x while playing...

Classic game can be heavy One of the best people I play is a former Div. 1 guy my age (late 40s) who still easily plays winning 4.5 USTA tennis. While he can hit any kind of spin he wants to, most of his shots are relatively flat. They are also consistently deep and well-placed. This depth...

I've never read a review for a racquet under 12 oz. that Chris liked in which he didn't add, "After I put a leather grip and some lead on this to get it to my spec, I'll love this racquet." Chris's review of the Volkl Super G 10 295g says he'd be tournament-ready at stock specs, 11 oz...

ideal specs Level: 3.5/4.0 USTA singles player -- win almost all at 3.5, struggle at 4.0 SW: ~330 Static weight: 12 oz, possibly a bit over Balance: 7+ points headlight Playing with Volkl C10 Pro right now and it's right in the wheelhouse there, maybe slightly low SW, slightly higher static...

the mighty C10 Well, it sounds like I'm right on track with the C10 as one of my two main racquets right now. Back to concentrating on my footwork! Though this comment from above is right on, for sure: "The downside of this is that in the third set your arm can get tired on a hot...

Great feedback and thank you. My main racquet for a long time was the POG OS. Lately I've mostly been playing with a Head Extreme Pro IG 2.0 or a Volkl C10 Pro. All are fairly hefty and have open string patterns. The Extreme plays like a modern version of the POG -- they're basically the...

What's better for learning to really swing out on every groundstroke, a relatively low-powered, control-oriented setup (e.g., flexible, dense string pattern, higher string tensions and/or less slippery strings) or a relatively high-powered/spin-oriented/higher launch angle setup (e.g., less...

Totally get it. So how are good players getting cranked out of colder, northern EU countries? Perhaps the issue is that we try to develop TOO MANY players, not that we're not developing enough. Think about how football/soccer development is done in the EU. There is zero emphasis on...

Funny -- I guess you'd consider me a liberal on the US political spectrum. And yet I like to win. In fact, I'll do anything to win a tennis match, even if it means hitting the ball with the butt of the racquet and crawling over the net to stand on your neck and choke the last little bit of air...

5 shots...at 3.5 and below 5 shots works great at 3.5 and below. If you can put 5 or more in a row into play most of the time, you'll win all the time. How do I know? 'Cause I'm really good at 3.5 singles and have won 75%+ of the time at that level and this is my strategy. At 4.0 and...

Another C10 Pro fan Just chiming in as another fan. I started playing the game in earnest 5-6 years ago with the POG OS in my hands, based on searching the intrawebs for the longest-running classic racquet and figuring if I could learn to play with that, then I'd be OK. Had tried many other...

chiming in I thought I'd add my two cents' worth, as I have played mostly with the POG OS for the last five years, while mixing in both the C10 Pro and most recent Extreme Pro version in the last two years. Here's my take on feel, performance and stringing. For context, I am a fit...

I still haven't tried the 100 but have been going back and forth between the POG OS and the Volkl C10 Pro. The POG 100 might be the sweet spot in the middle between those two.

Feel, baby They know what feels right and ask to have a bunch of racquets that feel the same. They are not into specs. Feel. You can't play any sport at the pro level based on thought and analysis. If you could, everyone on these boards would be a pro! Pros are animals. They are not in...

Gut or syngut around 68-70 or full poly around 50. Maybe greatest racquet. Ever.

I think this is what makes Sampras's comments here and the statement he's made many times about it being a mistake not to switch to a bigger racquet head size during his career even more credible: now that the anxiety of performance and psychological reliance on "old faithful" equipment has...

OP here. It happens that the POG OS has been my main racquet for five years. I also have been using the Head Extreme Pro (most recent version) lately about 25% of the time and have played at times with various versions of "Rafa's racquet," as Sampras put it. As awesome as the POG OS is, the...

Are all the TT posters dorked out on traditional, so-called players' frames really just deluding ourselves? I'm assuming many of us/you saw this interview with Pete in the The Australian...

Kinda true, kinda not. Kinda like saying only Nadal and Ferrer and Verdasco have the skill to make the heavily spun, strong grip ultra-modern FH useful. I go back and forth between modern and Conti-on-all-strokes. I hit the ball "better" -- it looks more "pro" and clean, anyway, during...

Yes, of course. You can't play down, but you can play up a half level. I win almost everything at 3.5, lose almost everything at 4.0. I have no illusions about my level or ability! I suck!

OP chiming in Happy to have instigated a lively dialogue amongst the crew. Of course a 4.5 who played D1 tennis is going to spank me every time, regardless of racquet (other than maybe playing with a 25-inch 7-oz kiddie racquet, and even then my guess is that I'd lose). The point is that...

I'm a 3.5 and 4.0 usta singles player. I love to geek out on racquets and tennis physics. I occasionally play 4.5 and 5.0 guys at my club -- played a 4.5 last night who is 51, played D1 singles at a PAC 12 university. Lost love and 1. And I played well! Most of the better guys I play...

Prince and Wilson I have played with every major brand and done OK but I started with the POG OS, so Prince feels most natural to me. I tend to play mostly attacking tennis with Conti grip or very weak variations thereof on almost everything these days and I do find that if I want to use...

groundies I am in the no man's land between 3.5 (win nearly all the time) and 4.0 (hard for me to win). I haven't played a single 3.5 player in 5+ years of 3.5 USTA and club play who can consistently win points (either with aces, unreturnables, or by capitalizing on weak replies) with a...

My wife is like that. She hits every stroke like a 6.0 or former WTA player (I'm not exaggerating -- she is an unreal athlete), but she just doesn't care about competition per se. Competes well and easily at 4.0-5.0 but doesn't even like to do it. She likes to hit. In my experience lots of...

Mostly it's just a complete unwillingness to lose. I'll never forget the first USTA match I played, 3.5 singles. The guy I was playing was the other team's captain, big guy, former college basketball player. We had a long delay before we played and I told him I had barely played...

Tough to beat Athletic 3.5 pusher...that was me. Started playing tennis 5 years ago. Played usta 3.5 singles my first two years after starting in the game. Won almost every match in usta, also played well in club play. Competed well, I should say. Now working on more complete game...

I liked the question someone asked a couple of pages ago: If you had to choose to use only one BH, slice or TS, which would it be? For me, no question it would be slice: consistent, takes no energy, easy to maintain, at worst is a neutral shot that can't easily be attacked (because too...

Youtek IG Extreme Pro 2.0 is what the APD wants to be when it grows up. Great racquet if the grip shape works for you.

full prince orig. syngut at mid tension full soft, cheap poly (polylon polyquest…a great buy in a soft, good-playing poly…look at the USRSA data) at 40# the PSG with the poly in a hybrid at 45# a soft multi (i think it was NXT) at mid tension i liked the full bed of soft poly the best...