Tennis is a favourite across all sporting seasons of the year. Whether playing or coaching, there is a wide variety of equipment to suit your game. Two essential things to get right are racquet size, as well as progressing through levels of ball compression. This article helps provide an overview of the benefits of racquet size and compression balls.
Racquets
Playing and learning Tennis can begin at an early age, so picking the right sized racquet is an important step to help learn the proper swing technique. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always mean it is as simple as buying the smallest racquet you can find. HART have specifically designed Tennis racquets for junior players that keep a large racquet head but shorten the handle length.
The HART 100 Tennis Racquets are great for growing players and help produce lasting results. These racquets allow juniors to practice a full swing without touching or scraping the ground, while still providing a large frame to contact the ball. The Tour 100 racquets have been designed to help accelerate the learning process by weighting in the racquet head. This allows a steadier swing pattern, and better transition when changing racquet sizes. As the player grows they will require a larger racquet size, which opens up a bigger variety of racquet options including the Power 300 and Match 200 ranges. See the graphic below for a guide on racquet sizing for our Tour 100 Tennis Racquets.
Low Compression Balls
Low compression balls are a perfect training aid for young or beginner tennis players. The advantage of using low compression balls is that the ball has a reduced bounce and moves slower across the court. This allows for players to track the ball better and provides longer racquet contact. These balls come in three levels of compression to allow for gradual training and progression. All balls are available for single buy for personal use, or in bulk quantities for coaching purposes. See the comparison below for a guide on low compression tennis balls.
15% larger than regulation balls and has 75% less bounce. This larger size and reduced bounce are ideal for beginner players because it gives longer racquet contact and a slower movement across the court.
Regulation size with 50% less bounce. This ball is a progression from the beginner yellow/red ball and allows players to get used to regulation size with reduced bounce.
Regulation size with only 25% less bounce. This is a final progression of low compression balls and can be used before introducing regulation size and bounce balls.