Racquet specification weight and grip sizes

Mukaiya

New User
How do manufacturers maintain a racquet's specification weight when the racquet comes in different grip sizes? With bigger grip sizes, there is more material and hence mass at the handle. So to maintain a given specification weight as grip size goes bigger, something has got to give, but what is that something?
 

gutfeeling

Hall of Fame
How do manufacturers maintain a racquet's specification weight when the racquet comes in different grip sizes? With bigger grip sizes, there is more material and hence mass at the handle. So to maintain a given specification weight as grip size goes bigger, something has got to give, but what is that something?
Larger handles use foam which is less dense, so less material/weight per unit of handle volume. So in theory larger handles are the same weight as smaller handles which use denser foam.
 
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