Types of Tennis Rackets

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Scott for Expert Village. I wanted to make sure that we covered the composition of the racket. In the old days you used to just have the wood. That was pretty much your only selection. Now a days you can have anything from graphite, fiberglass to a composition that is a mix of the two. And also the weighting of the racket. Each racket is weighted differently from head to handle. Some are more head heavy. Some are more, have more of the weight centered towards the grip. There used to be a way you could do it with the old rackets. You could put your finger basically at the halfway point and let go of the racket and you could tell if it was head heavy or if it was balanced more towards the center. Now days they have light written on the rackets on a lot of them. But they will show right on the grip or on the shaft whether or not the racket is more weighted towards the head or more weighted towards the handle. I suggest that with especially with a beginner that going possibly more towards the weight towards the handle not so much head heavy. You can go somewhere in the middle maybe a balance racket towards something more weighted towards the handle because getting the handle of the racket out in front of the ball isn't more important with a beginner. As you become more proficient with playing then you can kind of get to point where you might want to choose something that has a little more pop to it which would have the weight centered a little more towards the head of the racket. It would give you more follow through and more power behind your shot. Like I said you can go to the store and you can be able to pick out which one just according to what they show on the grip itself."