It is quite amazing how so many people play with racquets that are not only unsuitable for their game but also unsafe and can cause injuries. In general these racquets are light and heavy on the head. On the contrary the pros play with heavy racquets and light heads.
There is a marketing trap that wants us to believe that there is a beginner's racquet an intermediate racquet, and an advance racquet.
The truth is that it doesn't matter if you are a beginner or a pro you should play with the best racquet posible. That racquet should be heavy overall (above 300g) and light on the head with a balance of less than 330mm. My racquet's weight is 330g and it's balance is 310mm. I would play with a racquet weighing 370g if it was available on the market!
When someone walks into a store to buy a racquet he is probably gonna get the lighter one on the shop. He thinks that because he is playing with a racquet with the same brand as Federer, that his new racquet can't be that bad and sometimes he may even believe that his racquet, "with the latest technology on the market", is even better than the one Federer uses!
Social players all over the world play with extremely light racquets with heavy heads. These racquets have weights below 270g and have the balance above 340mm. Watch these players, they have inefficient techniques and most of them have elbow straps because of their tennis elbow.
Light weight racquets sells, heavy don't.
Light racquets brake easily and you may have to buy another one, heavy racquets don't brake.
Light racquets are unsafe because most of the impact is transfered to your wrists and elbows, Heavier racquets gives you more protection. If two cars have a front collision, in which car would you like to be driving, in the light car or the heavy car?
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