A racket-fitting guide

Which racket should you
actually be playing with?

Give it your height, build, standard and what you want from a frame. It measures you against fifty current rackets and returns three — with the reasoning written out, and links straight to Tennisnuts, the brand's own site and Amazon in your country.

Find my racket

Juniors sized by height, not age · flexible frames only if your arm plays up · grip sizing optional

1 About you

Age Used for junior sizing and to temper the weight recommendation. Height cm The single most important number for juniors. Weight kg A rough proxy for how much frame you can swing. Hours played per week More court time means you can handle a heavier frame.

2 Your game

Standard Playing style Swing length Short swings need the racket to supply the power. Fast swings need it to supply control. Backhand Arm, elbow or shoulder trouble? If you pick either of the last two, stiff frames are excluded outright. Budget Figures follow the country you pick in step 4. What do you play with now? optional The most useful thing you can tell it. A frame you already swing every week is better evidence than any estimate from your height and weight — and the reasoning will compare each suggestion against it.

3 What do you want from the frame?

Power, control and spin pull against each other — no frame maximises all three, and a racket that tries ends up mediocre at everything. So you get 10 points to divide between them, five maximum on any one. Spend them the way you actually want the racket to play.

Points left to spend 0 of 10

Comfort and manoeuvrability aren't part of that trade-off — a frame can be comfortable and powerful — so rate these two on their own.

4 Where you'll buy optional

Amazon country Grip size Measure from the bottom lateral crease of your palm to the tip of your ring finger. That measurement is the grip size in inches: 4" → L0, 4⅛" → L1, 4¼" → L2, 4⅜" → L3, 4½" → L4. If you fall between sizes, go smaller and build up with an overgrip — you can add height to a grip but not take it away.

Include grip size in the Amazon search (kept out of the retailer and brand searches, which match better without it)

Community racket ratings

Rackets added by players. Where several people have rated the same frame, the characteristics shown are the majority verdict — a trait only sticks if at least half of the submissions picked it, and the specs are the median so one mistyped figure can't skew things. A racket joins the recommendation pool once it has 5 submissions and a head size and weight to match on. Anything recommended from here is labelled Community so you always know which list it came from.

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Know a frame that isn't here? Add it. Submissions for the same racket are grouped together automatically — capitalisation, punctuation and words like "racket" or "tennis" are ignored when matching, so "Yonex EZONE 100" and "ezone 100 racquet" count as the same frame.

Brand * Model * Model only — don't repeat the brand. Head size (sq in) * Required — without it there's nothing to match on but opinion. Unstrung weight (g) * Required. Both are printed on the frame or any product listing. Swingweight optional Strung, if you know it. It matters more than static weight for how a frame actually plays. String pattern Stiffness (RA) Suits which level? Best suited playing style Price bracket

What is this racket good at? Pick every trait that applies.

This is the bit that gets majority-voted. If ten people say power + control and two say spin, the racket is listed as power + control.

Anything else worth knowing? optional Your name or initials optional