Every Racket Headsize Possible?

[new_tennis_player]

Is It Necessary To Make Every Racket Headsize Possible?

I've enjoyed hitting with several prince tennis rackets and own a scream and shark. I'm strongly considering another 03 in the future as well.

In my shopping, I've noticed the proliferation of prince racket head sizes:

93"
95
100
102
104
105
107
110, 27"/27.25"/27.5"
118

It seems they are reaching a point where they are considering making a racket in every headsize between between 93" and 110".

Is there really a demand for rackets with a 1" larger head?

Honestly, aren't 5" increments between 95 and 110 enough? Doesn't this simply confuse consumers?

 

[meowmix]

Wilson has an 88 with the sampras, 90's with the 6.1 90 line. Prince had a 92 with the NXG Mid (IIRC). Wilson had the kpro tour at 96. Babolat used to have a 97 (they still might) in their storm line. Lots of manufacturers have 98's. Wilson has 103's in their Zens. Pretty sure I've seen something with a 104, but I'm not sure what.

But yes, lots of confusion with so many rackets with similar specs and very similar head sizes. To be perfectly honest, you'd be really hard pressed to tell the difference between a 100 and, say, a 98 or a 102.

 

[Outlined]

Headsize is just one part of the equation. I think Prince's engineers create "player profiles", in fact, as you already said, they possibly created quite a number of player profiles. For every player profile they create/design a racket. Many player profiles -> many headsizes.

 

[Mig1NC]

Dunlop has a 101 as well. Now Donnay USA makes a 94 and 99.

The biggest gripe I have about it is that there is no industry standard way of measuring headsize. One may use the string surface area, one may use the outer diameter, one may just make a marketing call not based on any physical attribute.

 

[HiroProtagonist]

The biggest gripe I have about it is that there is no industry standard way of measuring headsize. One may use the string surface area, one may use the outer diameter, one may just make a marketing call not based on any physical attribute.

Yes this has really been burning my nuggets lately as well. I completely skipped demoing the Prestige Mid+ because after 10 racquets nething over 95" felt clunky and awkward, but looking at it now the Prest. Mid+ looks more like 95 or 96" and I have heard that Head measures diff and this might actually be the case.

Does ne1 have a definitive answer? Are HEAD's head sizes really 2 or 3"s smaller than listed?

 

[meowmix]

JackandCoke (or something along those lines... I forget exactly what it is) used AutoCad to take a very good estimate of the head sizes of several Head rackets. He scanned the rackets' heads with a scanner, uploaded the images into Autocad, and then approximated the area by creating a many-sided-figure-that-closely-bordered-the-racket's-head-gon. He found that the area of the prestige mid is in fact 89.3, and that the area of the prestige mp/head's 98's are in fact around 95.

 

[HiroProtagonist]

JackandCoke (or something along those lines... I forget exactly what it is) used AutoCad to take a very good estimate of the head sizes of several Head rackets. He scanned the rackets' heads with a scanner, uploaded the images into Autocad, and then approximated the area by creating a many-sided-figure-that-closely-bordered-the-racket's-head-gon. He found that the area of the prestige mid is in fact 89.3, and that the area of the prestige mp/head's 98's are in fact around 95.

TY!

 

[Outlined]

It is well known that Head is lying about the headsizes of their sticks. Subtract 3 sq in and you got the right size.