What he said.Worst: Wilson
Best: Yonex
I’m a long time Pacific user and very happy. Very concerned about their complete fade out in the American market place. I need a grommet kit for my Pacific Raptor. If you have any connections let me know.PACIFIC also among the best for consistent specs.
Ping @michael valek . He’s the resident TT contact in Europe for all things Pacific.I’m a long time Pacific user and very happy. Very concerned about their complete fade out in the American market place. I need a grommet kit for my Pacific Raptor. If you have any connections let me know.
I went to head. No problems.Yonex is the best, head is second in terms of the mainstream brands but still has some variances. Wilson and Babolat are the worst of the mainstream brands.
I own a couple head racquets and the specs are very on point. Head youtek ig prestige pro was exactly on spec with the stock leather grip, two head gravity racquets and both were within two grams of each other, bought a few months apart both with head leather tour grip.I went to head. No problems.
Swingweight on the latest pure strike caught me off guard but racquets like the drive and aero have good QC, owned three and didn’t have problems other than a few grams static weight and probably swingweight and balance, nothing crazy like head heavy when it’s 4 points headlight.Are there many players having QC issues with Babolat? I’ve been a Babolat racquet user for the past twenty years and have never had any noticeable QC issues with specs or paintjob quality. I am not one to weigh and measure racquet specs, but don’t recall noticeable differences when I played with multiple racquets of the same model. At any given time over the years, I’ve owned 3-4 racquets each of the Pure Control swirly, AeroPro Control, AeroStorm Tour, Pure Strike Tour Gen 1 and Pure Strike Tour Gen 3.
So, I thought they would rate pretty highly on QC standards. I don‘t have any experience with other racquet companies in the past two decades apart from demoing racquets periodically.
I just received third Prince Textreme Tour 100P last night. All 3 of them are less than .5 gm difference in static weight, two match the published balance exactly and one is less than 1 pt different. I am extremely impressed. I have half a dozen Yonex racquets so I am used to high level QC.What do people think about quality of Prince this year?
It would really suck for someone who is not a gear-nerd and doesn't understand QC tolerances to be excited to get a Gravity Pro and end up with one that is 30 swing weight points higher than it should be.Advertised strung swingweight of the Head Gravity Pro is 332, but I’ve read that someone got one with swingweight between 350 and 360. Crazy.
I just received third Prince Textreme Tour 100P last night. All 3 of them are less than .5 gm difference in static weight, two match the published balance exactly and one is less than 1 pt different. I am extremely impressed. I have half a dozen Yonex racquets so I am used to high level QC.
I don't know if its a quality issue, but I tube a lot of the grommets near the top of the frame. People bring them in complaining of a "buzz" and invariably, its a broken off grommet, usually one of the 4 top ones. The grommet barrel will move up and down the string after it's broken off.Are there many players having QC issues with Babolat? I’ve been a Babolat racquet user for the past twenty years and have never had any noticeable QC issues with specs or paintjob quality. I am not one to weigh and measure racquet specs, but don’t recall noticeable differences when I played with multiple racquets of the same model. At any given time over the years, I’ve owned 3-4 racquets each of the Pure Control swirly, AeroPro Control, AeroStorm Tour, Pure Strike Tour Gen 1 and Pure Strike Tour Gen 3.
So, I thought they would rate pretty highly on QC standards. I don‘t have any experience with other racquet companies in the past two decades apart from demoing racquets periodically.
I never liked Wilson rackets. I’m not surprised the overwhelming opinion is they’re the worst in regards of QCI have a friend that buys and sells Wilsons and makes good money. He has noticed since the pandemic Wilson QC has gotten worse. Not sure if it means anything but interesting take.
Worst: Wilson
Best: Yonex
IMO lately.. Tecnifibre has been really really bad..
Babolat and Wilson has been fine within reason..
Yonex has been the best for a long long time..
Yonex is made in Japan, and is the only major market brand not made in China. Japanese manufacturing quality control is part of their process. With Chinese mainland manufacturing we are forced to inspect and reject by batch. Anyone who has ever dealt with that quickly realizes that they never really reject, and that they often just blow rejects by when the inspectors aren’t looking. The problem isn’t that the manufacturers don’t have standards, it is more that the Chinese get around them in order to lower their costs. Unless each one is handled outside that setting (as in Angell customization) or the manufacturers actually own the facilities, we will be stuck with this problem as part of their quest for lower costs and higher profits.IMO lately.. Tecnifibre has been really really bad..
Babolat and Wilson has been fine within reason..
Yonex has been the best for a long long time..
Paul does good job keeping the Custom line as close to the spec for his Angell fans.Yonex is made in Japan, and is the only major market brand not made in China. Japanese manufacturing quality control is part of their process. With Chinese mainland manufacturing we are forced to inspect and reject by batch. Anyone who has ever dealt with that quickly realizes that they never really reject, and that they often just blow rejects by when the inspectors aren’t looking. The problem isn’t that the manufacturers don’t have standards, it is more that the Chinese get around them in order to lower their costs. Unless each one is handled outside that setting (as in Angell customization) or the manufacturers actually own the facilities, we will be stuck with this problem as part of their quest for lower costs and higher profits.