Racquet that is great for serving and a one-handed backhand

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Djinn

Rookie
I’m currently using the Head Prestige Tour Auxetic. It’s solid, stable, provides good spin and enough power for me. It’s great for my one-handed backhand. However, I’m having issues getting much power on serves. I’m going to tinker with it a bit to increase SW along with other things and see if I can get it to work.

But meanwhile, I’d love some suggestions of racquets to look into that fit my needs. It seems I can make any racquet work for my forehand with eastern and/or semi-western grip, but things are usually lacking in either the one-handed backhand or serve department. Thanks!
 
SinneGOAT

SinneGOAT

Hall of Fame
Head extreme tour has gotten a lot of good comments about being a good frame for one handed backhands. I’ve used it for 3 years and it’s been great, my serve has been good. Another frame which I know is great for serving but I haven’t heard anything about for 1 handers is the ezone. I served my best tennis when I used the ezone(and the pure drive but for 1 handers it’s probably clunky) and it’s a great feeling frame when you adjust to the head shape.
 
kabrac

kabrac

Professional
Djinn said:
I’m currently using the Head Prestige Tour Auxetic. It’s solid, stable, provides good spin and enough power for me. It’s great for my one-handed backhand. However, I’m having issues getting much power on serves. I’m going to tinker with it a bit to increase SW along with other things and see if I can get it to work.

But meanwhile, I’d love some suggestions of racquets to look into that fit my needs. It seems I can make any racquet work for my forehand with eastern and/or semi-western grip, but things are usually lacking in either the one-handed backhand or serve department. Thanks!
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Are you finding it hard to get necessary racquet head speed during the serve? It sounds like in every other department it's working for you and you like it. Before you start shopping, try a lower tension, synthetic gut, or multi.

Are you losing power on serve because of a technique issue? Don't get sucked into racquets all the time. I know it's fun, but hundreds of dollars are wasted when it could just be a simple fix.
 
Rosstour

Rosstour

G.O.A.T.
SinneGOAT said:
I felt serving with this frame was kind of awkward cause of the flexiness, did you feel different?
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At first I had trouble with flat serves but felt great control on spin serves right away. Now with a revamped motion I'm hitting the flat serves bigger than before. And it's improved all three of my backhands and my volleys/smashes/slices. The only thing is I spray the big FH more now
 
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Yamin

Hall of Fame
Blade 18x20 v7, clash 98v1, prostaff 14

Almost switched to the prestige tour but get a much more powerful serve with all of these. Prestige Tour felt like it would top out a little on service
 
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Classic-TXP-IG MID

Classic-TXP-IG MID

Hall of Fame
@Djinn

Angell Custom TC95 18x20, TC97 18x20 (and the 16x19 versions are awesome as well)
Yonex VC95 2023 (modified)
Dunlop Srixon SX300 Tour 2019 (100 sq. inch version)* - massive power with very good control from all areas
Head G360+ Extreme Tour (modified)
Head G360+ Extreme Pro (modified)*
Head G360+ Gravity Pro (modified)*
Wilson Pro Stock Blade 98 18x20 (modified)
Wilson Blade 98 2015 (18x20)
Wilson Blade Pro v7 16x19
Wilson Blade Pro v8 18x20
Wilson Shift 99/300 Pro Labs Edition/Version (modified)*
Wilson Shift 99/315 Pro Labs Edition/Version (modified)*
Babolat PSVS (modified)
Babolat PA98 (modified)
Volkl C10 Pro (modified)

I'm sure there are many more... but these should do fine. The ones marked with * are the most powerful on serve, but all the ones listed can hit bombs.

Hope that helps.
 
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PRS

Semi-Pro
Djinn said:
I’m currently using the Head Prestige Tour Auxetic. It’s solid, stable, provides good spin and enough power for me. It’s great for my one-handed backhand. However, I’m having issues getting much power on serves. I’m going to tinker with it a bit to increase SW along with other things and see if I can get it to work.

But meanwhile, I’d love some suggestions of racquets to look into that fit my needs. It seems I can make any racquet work for my forehand with eastern and/or semi-western grip, but things are usually lacking in either the one-handed backhand or serve department. Thanks!
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Personally I'm a big fan of the Dunlop CX 200 Tour 18x20 and Yonex Percept 97D for big serves and my one hander. I added weight to both, but the Dunlop especially needed some weight for me to get enough power and depth on my serve. The 16x19 might be a little better for that as well, but I have only used the 18x20 because I like dense string patterns.
 
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Soundbyte

Hall of Fame
Djinn said:
Already down at 40 lbs.
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My man! 40lbs is where it's at!

I'd give the Diadem Elevate V3, Angell TC90/95, and Head Prestige Classic 2.0 a try. But it yet to up the swing weight on your Tour first. You need it at 330-340+ to get great pop on serve.
 
socallefty

socallefty

G.O.A.T.
There are no racquets suitable for particular shots for all players. Everyone has preferences based on what their racquet history is and in particular the racquets used while they developed their game/swing. If the racquet doesn’t matter for your FH, then the problem may be the caliber of your serve/BH relative to your FH.

Djinn said:
It seems I can make any racquet work for my forehand with eastern and/or semi-western grip, but things are usually lacking in either the one-handed backhand or serve department.
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Djinn

Rookie
Soundbyte said:
My man! 40lbs is where it's at!

I'd give the Diadem Elevate V3, Angell TC90/95, and Head Prestige Classic 2.0 a try. But it yet to up the swing weight on your Tour first. You need it at 330-340+ to get great pop on serve.
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I honestly think that’s the issue right now. I was used to playing with 340+ SW but wanted to reach an ideal recoil and MgR/I. I’m sitting at 327 SW atm, I think I can easily add a few more points and be fine.
 
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Soundbyte

Hall of Fame
Djinn said:
I honestly think that’s the issue right now. I was used to playing with 340+ SW but wanted to reach an ideal recoil and MgR/I. I’m sitting at 327 SW atm, I think I can easily add a few more points and be fine.
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I've also tried to go lower on SW, but I need it around 340 otherwise I think rackets feel either underpowered or too unstable.

I know the general trend has been lighter rackets, but that just doesn't work best for me
 
Dragy

Dragy

Legend
With serving racquets it’s easy. Pure Drives, Aeros etc. are great. Prince Beast (remember Isner). Ezone. Even if you think RT, it’s stiff frame with hefty SW and 16x19 pattern. Balance is a thing of course and as much SW as you can handle and swing explosively (without injuring yourself).

For OHBH it’s really dependent on what you want from it and how you struggle with it. I’d say for full swing, spin-full OHBHs moderately powerful, stable open pattern racquets are great. For more old-school OHBH with conti grips - different story.

So what you need for OHBH, what needs improvement?
 
Konik_1982

Konik_1982

Rookie
What is the outcome you want to achieve? :) If you want to focus just on serve and OHBH then really the 95/97 mentioned frames are the ones to try. But if you´re like me, who originally wanted to do the same and was playing with RF97 for more than 6 months to have a great serve and OHBH...and then realized that I improved the OHBH and never served bigger bombs with any other racquet but lost a lot confidence on my forehand...
OHBH became a better shot than FH but wasn´t a winning stroke at all. I had to admit, that it´s just too much a racquet for myself (3.5 - 4.0 player) and started to look somewhere for a frame that´s good for serving, will give me back my FH confidence and give a decent OHBH. And guess what - ended up with the Pure Aero 2023, regular 100 head...never even thought to like this racquet but I tried it from a friend and bought 2 of them in short time.
Serves are awesome (even though the speed slightly decreased from the RF97) but FH confidence is back and better than ever. OHBH is OK, slice works great. Now it´s a neutral shot, of course I cannot swing it like the RF but I´m totally fine with that :)
I have the serve and FH which are my weapons now and a decent OHBH that is reliable.
 
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_FrankTheTank_

New User
Another vote for the vcore 95 from me. For my conditions, i am able to serve with decent power an precision with the vcore pro 97 /percept 97 aswell. The vcore 98 felt also natural on the OHBH and with right technique you can serve bombs with it, but it might be the wrong racquet coming from a prestige tour.
 
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