Every current racket placed by how it plays, not what it weighs. Position comes from the eight playtest axes reduced to two dimensions; colour runs from control-first to power-first. Click any racket to inspect it. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, double-click to reset.
A line joins a racket to each of its three closest neighbours on the eight playtest axes — the frames whose measured feel is most like it. Distance is straight-line across the eight standardised scores; hover a line to read it. Note that every racket gets exactly three links no matter how far away they are, so an isolated frame is still joined to its nearest company: check the number before reading a line as "these two are alike". Left to right is the same power-to-control axis as the map. Click a racket to light up its own links; drag one aside to untangle them. Scroll to zoom, drag the background to pan, double-click to reset.
Answer these and the page builds a target racket as an eight-axis vector, then ranks every frame by weighted distance to it. What you say matters most gets weighted most.
What the tour plays — as far as the data will honestly say. The source lists players against a brand's line, not against one frame, so Alcaraz appears on every Pure Strike and Świątek on three separate Tecnifibre families. Where those frames share a family this page names it; where they do not it names the brand and stops. Pro frames are in any case usually custom-weighted, and often an older mould in current paint, so read this as the family a player is tied to, never as the racket in their hand.
Full data. Click a heading to sort. Feel scores are 0–10; est marks a frame whose feel is modelled from specs rather than measured on court.
Where the numbers come from
Specs — head size, weight, swingweight, stiffness (RA), balance and string pattern — come from the Racqix dataset, filtered to model years 2022 and later and deduped to the newest generation of each frame.
Feel — the eight axes used for position, similarity and matching — comes from Tennis Warehouse playtest scorecards, where six testers hit each frame and score it 0–10 on Power, Control, Maneuverability, Stability, Comfort, Touch/Feel, Topspin and Slice. These are measured, not inferred.
Not every racket has been playtested. For those, feel is estimated by a ridge regression from the six spec numbers, trained only on frames that have both. Estimated frames are marked everywhere they appear — treat them as a starting hypothesis, not a verdict.
The map's axes are principal components of the eight feel axes, so the layout is derived from the data rather than assumed. The labels below each axis name the traits that load most strongly on it.
Known gaps
- Prince and Solinco are thinly covered in the source dataset.
- No prices — this ranks frames by how they play, not what they cost.
- Playtest scores are one team's averages. They are consistent frame to frame, which is what makes them comparable, but they are still opinions.