Spalding Raquetas de Tenis

Spalding Tennis Racquets

For many years, the Spalding tennis equipment company has been supplying tennis players of all ages with quality tennis racquets and accessories. Spalding offers players a variety of racquet design choices, including different balances, head sizes, and string bed patterns. This firm designs tennis racquets for players of beginner, intermediate, and advanced skill levels.

Spalding makes racquets with one of three balances. These include head-heavy, even, and head-light balances.

• Head-heavy tennis racquets have more weight at their tips and less weight at their handles. This configuration can allow for added power for ground strokes and serves but also affects maneuverability. Head-heavy models are thus suitable for players with slower swing patterns.
• Evenly balanced racquets have proportional amounts of weight at their handles and their tips.
• Head-light racquets have more weight in their handles than in their tips. This feature makes them whippy and maneuverable and allows for high racquet head speeds.

When shopping for Spalding racquets, look for their balances in the specifications sections. Most balance measurements increase by 1-point increments.

In addition to making tennis racquets of various balances, this firm makes models with varying head sizes. The head size of the instrument is defined by the area covered by the strings in the bed. Compared to large string beds, smaller string beds cause smaller string reactions during ball impact. This, in turn, causes a drop in overall power but also produces an increase in control.

Spalding tennis racquet head sizes generally run from between 95 square inches and 120 square inches. The 95-square-inch heads provide the least power and the most control while the 120-square-inch heads offer the most power and the least control. In the middle of the back are other head sizes, including 98-square-inch, 100-square-inch, and 105-square-inch models. Each upward increment in head size trades some level of power for control.

In addition to head size, these models also offer tennis players their choice of string bed patterns. Most tennis racquet string beds have either open or closed patterns. Open string patterns have more spaces between the strings, and this can allow for added power. Conversely, closed string patterns have closely placed strings, providing for more ball bite, spin, and control. Common open ratios include 16 by 15 while closed patterns include 16 by 19. In some cases, tennis racquets with open string patterns may require higher string tensions. This provision minimizes string movement and consequent string wear.