Tennis Racquet Center

Choosing the best tennis racquet

If you just decided to make a hobby out of lawn tennis and want to choose your tennis racquet or if you are already at an advanced level and want a more powerful tennis racquet, which you can control more easily or just simply want it to be easier to handle, we will try to help you make the best choice.

Mini-test for Beginners

If you are a beginner, we advise you, before you go shopping for your best tennis racquet to go to a sports center and play with several types of tennis racquet. Try to compare them and figure out which model looks solid enough on impact with the tennis ball- if you hear any disturbing noise or vibration- if you think it is too hard when serving-if you find any of them easier to handle- which model strikes deeper, but not outside the tennis court

To help you decide which of the many models and brands of Wilson, Head, Babolat, Prince tennis racquet suits you the best, we will list some basic characteristics of a tennis racquet and how they can help you achieve performance.

The characteristics of a tennis racquet:

Midsize: 548-593cm2 (80-93in2)

Midplus: 594-677cm2 (94-105in2)

Oversize: 678-740cm2 (106-115in2)

Super OS: larger than 741cm2(116in2

Tennis racquets range in surface between 550 cm2 and 870 cm2 (extreme values), but the most used are between 600cm2 and 700cm2. These surfaces offer an optimal blend of power and control for most players. A larger surface also offers a larger area for hitting the tennis ball (sweetspot), what appears to be a successful strike does not necessarily mean that the ball has reached the exact center of the tennis racquet.The power of a strike increases as the surface is larger if other characteristics of the rocket are identical. A small area of the impact addresses to advanced players, who are seeking for an enhanced control, while large areas are recommended for beginners or below average players, who need a greater “sweet-spot”. In other words, the larger the impact area is the more elastic will the string be, imprinting a greater hitting power.