How To Choose The Right Racquet By: Mike Henderson

Purchase a racquet dependent on your abilities. Get to know the category you fall into. It should not be hard for you to identify yourself as beginner, intermediate or advanced player. Choosing a tennis racquet is like buying new clothes. You get a better fit when you give them a go on. You know you may be a beginner,intermediate or advanced tennis player. Beginners usually have shorter swings that are slow and need more power from a racquet. An oversized head, longer racquet that's head heavy is what you can look for. Intermediate player need to observe racquets that offer increased maneuverability. Other considerations are racquets that have more features like being lighter, midplus heads and extended length. Advanced and active players need racquets with more control. At this point mastered most of the techniques and must consider heavier, thinner beams and a smaller head. When you consider weight and balance remember you may be swinging that racquet for hours at a time. You need one that is not to heavy but heavy enough to present you power. Lighter racquets give you more power and heavy racquets present you with additional control. Heavy racquets are more stable and you you feel less shock while playing. A lot easier on the arm, especially the elbow, ever heard of tennis elbow? Head size on a racquet helps if you aren't very atheltic when you start. A larger head helps you appear less clumsy. Larger heads have a bigger sweet spot and more important a larger hitting area. If you are more skilled choose the smaller racquet heads. The more length on the racquet helps with ground strokes and power. It is was well harder to control.
The tension of the racquet comes more into touch expensive racquets. They have some customization and are pre strung. Lower tension has more power and less vibration. Higher tension gives you more pop, power and spin. The grip size is sort of like trying on a pair of gloves. It all depends on your hand size. A lot of manufactures work with the grip sizes to reduce shock and vibration from the racquet. One thing you can do when choosing a racquet is to ask the opinion of players more experienced than yourself. Most people love to give advice and the more opinions you have the better choices you can produce in your search for a fresh racquet.



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