Hello all, What are the most Responsive/Repulsive racquets that you have ever played with? Are there any which are also intermediate friendly. Wanted to gift a racquet to my buddy as a farewell gift. Thanks.
The stiffer the racket the more responsive it is. However Stiff rackets are not intermediate friendly.
The NanoFlare 1000Z is the most responsive and repulsive racket I have tried. Esp with exbolt. rest of my game wasn’t great in that time, but serves, net shots, and when I connected on a smash it was amazing. But it was just 1 game.
Nanoflare 1000z for most repulsion power. Used 26lbs BG66U string. Before that it would have been Nanoflare 800. Same string, but was at 24lbs. As for intermediate friendly, Astrox Nextage or Apacs Stardom 800. Both are somewhere near mid flex, but feel good to play with.
I was able to test Drive X 10 metallic and nanoflare 800 pro. One of the yonex sponsored player at our club has nanoflare 800 pro. It is 4U, yonex recommends exbolt 65 with it and it was strung @ 24x26 if I remember correctly. I predominantly use head heavy racquets, my current racquets are N9II, 88D pro and TKFE (Sold). First game with nanoflare 800 pro was rather surprising, it has a unique feel and crisp hitting sound to it. Awesome accuracy, flicks and stick smashes are easy with this one and very responsive. It lacks the power from back court, may be 3U can help abit. Probably I got used to TKFE sword kind of frame, it didn't take much time to get used with 800 pro. It's not an in-depth review, I just used the racquet for 4hrs or so. But I would definitely pick this one for response and feel.
It's slightly head heavier than 800 pro and the shaft felt stiff, but not by much. To me Drive x10 is kind of an all round racquet. It also has that crisp feel, but felt 800 pro is better and accurate.
