Which racquet, and which string, for your game
People almost always choose a racquet for the wrong reasons: because a player they admire uses it, because a salesperson pushed it, or because it happened to be there.
Six questions are enough to do better. They are not about your rating — a rating is not a physical quantity. They are about what you do to the ball: how fast you take the racquet back, how high you strike, what your arm absorbs without complaint.
At the end, a frame and a string. Tuned for you before they ship, not left for you to sort out later.
What the six questions rest on
A racquet is an object that collides with a ball. What decides the outcome is the mass in play at impact, where that mass sits, and how the string returns the energy it absorbed.
The six questions estimate those three things from what you already know about your game, without asking you to measure anything. Your answer on racquet-head speed says what inertia you can handle. Your answer on strike height says what the string pattern has to allow. Your answer about your arm says how far we can go on stiffness.
None of these questions asks whether you play well. They ask how you play.
What it settles, and what it does not
What it settles: you will not end up with a racquet that works against you. No frame too inert for your racquet-head speed, no string that stiffens an already strained arm, no string pattern that refuses the trajectory you are after.
What it does not settle: your backhand. A racquet does not add a shot you do not have. It does not make up for a weakness — it amplifies a strength, or it leaves you alone. That is already a great deal, and it is all.
If someone promises you more, ask them what they are basing it on.
Length: the setting nobody talks about
Every adult retail racquet is the same length. That is a convention, not a law of nature — and it does not suit everyone equally.
Half an inch more lengthens the lever: more speed at the tip, more reach on serve, and a racquet that becomes slightly more demanding to swing. Half an inch less does the opposite: the racquet comes back faster and forgives being late.
Question 04 lets you set this in quarter-inch steps, in both directions. It is included, and it is charged for nowhere.
For a child, the configurator changes its questions
Choosing a child's racquet is not choosing a small adult racquet. Frame size depends on their height, not their age or their level, and a racquet that is too long teaches a stroke they will later have to unlearn.
The junior path therefore asks different questions, and it refuses certain combinations: if a setting falls outside the bands recommended for the child's height, it tells you instead of letting you order it.
It is the only place on this site where the tool stops you doing something. That is deliberate.
Why our strings carry numbers, not names
A string's name tells you nothing. Control, power, comfort: those are promises, not measurements, and two strings carrying the same promise can behave in opposite ways.
Our strings run from N°1 to N°7, in an order that follows a quantity measured on the bench: their elongation. The N°1 is the softest and most generous in return; the N°7 the stiffest and most predictable. The N°4 suits the greatest number of players, which is why it sits in the middle.
A number will not make you dream. It will let you know what you are changing when you change it.
Four questions, four answers
How long does it take?
Two minutes. Six questions, none of which asks you to measure anything, and you can go back at every step.
Do I need to know my current racquet's specs?
No. The configurator starts from your game, not your gear. If you do know your current racquet's values, they will be useful elsewhere — on the Understand page, where you can enter them and see what they give.
Does the racquet arrive ready to play?
It arrives tuned to the values derived from your answers, and strung with the chosen string at the chosen tension. There is nothing to have done after delivery.
And if the result does not suit me?
Write and tell us what is wrong — too heavy at the tip, too muted, too much vibration. Those are settings, and a setting can be redone. That is precisely the advantage of starting from known values rather than a retail model: we know exactly what to move.