How to choose tennis Racquet? - Length

How to choose tennis Racquet? - Length

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(In the picture, Length is 685mm / 27 in.)

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Third thing is "Length"

Traditionally, tennis players use 27 inches length racquets. People called it as "Standard Racquet". An Asian player "Michael Change" use the 1 inch longer racquet and he played better than before. From that time people find the longer one. One of the tennis racquet manufacturer "Wilson" made longer racquets and named it as "Stretch", other company "Prince" made it as "Long Body".

The long racquet can make a fast impact(more powerful) because it can be faster at the sweet point than shorter one with same angular velocity. Obviously, the longer racquet cover more wide area. However, because of the same reason,
it is more difficult to react to unexpected situation. Also, it is hard to hit the ball which fly to near the player's body.

Therefore, if you have short body but you want to powerful play, it will yours. You will tradeoff the fast reaction and power.

Other series : “Weight” “Balance” “Head Size” “Length” “Grip size” “String”