| THE SITE // WHO MAKES IT AND WHY

ABOUT RACQUETGEEK

An independent, one-person project that puts racquet and string specs in one place so they can actually be compared.

Why this site exists

Racquet specifications are everywhere and nowhere. Head size sits on the manufacturer's product page, stiffness turns up in a review, balance gets mentioned halfway through a YouTube video, and the one thing you actually want — how two frames compare on the same terms — does not exist anywhere.

So you end up doing what everyone does: reading five reviews, getting five opinions, and buying on a hunch. Then the frame arrives and plays nothing like you expected, because “16x19” and “310mm balance” never got translated into anything you could feel.

RacquetGeek is an attempt to fix the comparison problem specifically. Every frame is scored on the same five axes, on the same scale, against the same set of other frames — so that “more control than the Pure Drive” becomes a number you can check rather than a claim you have to trust.

Who makes it

RacquetGeek is built and maintained by Daniel Chung, working alone. There is no company behind it, no staff, and no editorial board.

The honest version of the credentials: I am a software developer first and a tennis player second. I am not a coach, not a certified racquet technician, and I do not run a testing lab. What I am is someone who went looking for a way to compare frames on their numbers, could not find one, and had the skills to build it.

That shapes what this site is good at and what it is not. It is good at organising scattered data into something comparable and at being explicit about where the numbers come from. It is not a substitute for hitting with a racquet, and it does not pretend to be a lab. Where I have made a judgement call, the methodology page says so plainly, including the parts the ratings cannot capture.

What is actually here

  • 64 racquets, each scored on power, spin, control, comfort and playing weight, with published specifications alongside.
  • 30 strings, each modelled as a set of shifts to those ratings rather than as standalone scores — because a string only means something on a specific frame.
  • 219 excerpts from independently published reviews and verified-purchase customer reviews, each credited and linked to its source.
  • A side-by-side comparison tool for putting two frames against each other directly.
  • A string selector on every racquet page that shows what a given string does to that frame's ratings before you spend anything on it.

Frames from Babolat, Wilson, Head, Yonex, Prince, Tecnifibre, Dunlop, Volkl and ProKennex are covered. The database grows as frames are researched properly rather than added in bulk — a racquet gets a page when there is enough independent material on it to score it defensibly.

Independence

No manufacturer has any input into the ratings. Nobody has been sent a frame in exchange for a score, no brand has been given a preview or a right of reply, and no rating has ever been changed at anyone's request. If a popular frame rates poorly on an axis, that is what it says.

Critical review quotes are included next to positive ones for the same reason. A page that only carries praise is an advert, and there are enough of those already.