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7 Sep Useful Awaiting review What does it cost to restring a racquet? The string, by type A restring is two costs: the string and the stringer's time. The second varies by town; the first we can put real numbers on. Across the 70 strings we hold a price for, the listed pack runs from … 5 min read · 7 Sep 2026 7 Sep Buyer's guide Awaiting review Choosing a racquet with a sore arm: the softest frames we hold If your elbow complains, the frame is only part of the answer — but it is the part with a number on it. These are the softest racquets we hold, and the three changes that matter more than … 2 min read · 7 Sep 2026 7 Sep Buyer's guide Awaiting review 16×19 or 18×20: what the string pattern actually changes Two numbers on the throat of a frame, and the single biggest decision on the specification sheet. Here is what the pattern does to control, spin and power — measured across every racquet we hold. 1 min read · 7 Sep 2026 3 Sep Useful AI summary Awaiting review The tension range on the label is a limit, not a recommendation Manufacturers publish a window, not a setting. Ours run from 20 kg to 27 kg depending on the frame — and the useful number is somewhere inside yours. 1 min read · 1 source · 3 Sep 2026 3 Sep Useful AI summary Awaiting review How stiff is stiff? RA across the racquets we hold a figure for 87 of the 249 racquets in the catalogue carry a stiffness figure. They run from RA 55 to RA 72, and the average sits at 65. 2 min read · 1 source · 3 Sep 2026 3 Sep Latest news AI summary Awaiting review Alcaraz drops a set and moves on; Sabalenka needs barely an hour The defending champion beat Jaime Faria in four sets after losing the first; Aryna Sabalenka went through 6-1, 6-1. 1 min read · 1 source · 3 Sep 2026 3 Sep Latest news AI summary Awaiting review Three seeds gone in a day — and a lucky loser takes the biggest scalp Andrey Rublev, Brandon Nakashima and Rafael Jodar all went out, Jodar to lucky loser Bu Yunchaokete for the loss of five games. 1 min read · 1 source · 3 Sep 2026 2 Sep New products Awaiting review The US Open Blade costs €70 more. Every figure we hold is identical. The Blade 98 16×19 v10 US Open 2026 and the standard v10 match on head size, weight, balance, pattern and tension range. We have not had the US Open edition on the bench, and we say so. 1 min read · 1 source · 2 Sep 2026 2 Sep Buyer's guide AI summary Awaiting review Three 98s at three prices: Radical MP, EZONE 98 and VCORE 98 Same head size, same string pattern, €85 between the cheapest and the dearest. The specification sheet says where the money goes — and where it does not. 1 min read · 1 source · 2 Sep 2026 2 Sep Latest news AI summary Awaiting review Monfils wins on his 40th birthday — the first to do it since Connors Gael Monfils beat Adolfo Daniel Vallejo 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0 and became the first player aged 40 or over to win a US Open singles match since Jimmy Connors in 1992. 1 min read · 1 source · 2 Sep 2026 No photo on file 2 Sep Latest news AI summary Awaiting review Zverev survives Sonego in four hours and 53 minutes The top seed was two points from going out before beating Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 3-6, 6-7(7), 7-5, 6-4 in the longest match of the opening days. 1 min read · 2 sources · 2 Sep 2026 2 Sep Latest news AI summary Awaiting review Rain pushes 14 first-round matches into Wednesday Heavy rain closed the outside courts and left a third of the first round unplayed; Madison Keys and Flavio Cobolli were among those who finished under a roof. 1 min read · 1 source · 2 Sep 2026 31 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Monday belongs to the defending champions Sabalenka opens the day session on Arthur Ashe against Camila Osorio, with Alcaraz following against Roman Safiullin. 1 min read · 31 Aug 2026 31 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Norrie and Krejcikova fall on the opening day Luca Van Assche knocks out the 29th seed in four sets; Kamilla Rakhimova takes out the former Wimbledon champion in straight sets. 1 min read · 31 Aug 2026 31 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Djokovic loses in the first round to Mariano Navone The four-time champion, chasing a record 25th major, goes out in five sets — his earliest Grand Slam exit in more than 20 years. 1 min read · 31 Aug 2026 31 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Day one round-up: Medvedev, Lehecka, Paul and Rinderknech advance A first-round sweep of the Sunday results, from Medvedev's straight-sets win over Hugo Gaston to Dino Prizmic's five-set survival. 1 min read · 31 Aug 2026 30 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Sinner's new Head Speed is on sale — its owner is not in the draw Head launched the Speed 2026 around Jannik Sinner in December after more than a year of blacked-out prototypes; a knee injury keeps the frame's headline endorser out of New York. 1 min read · 30 Aug 2026 29 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Sabalenka goes for a New York three-peat The world No. 1 has won 13 consecutive matches at Flushing Meadows and would be the first woman since Serena Williams to take three US Opens in a row. 1 min read · 29 Aug 2026 29 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Alcaraz defends his title after four months out with a wrist injury The champion has not played a competitive match since April; he opens against Roman Safiullin on Arthur Ashe. 1 min read · 29 Aug 2026 28 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Zverev leads the men's seeds, Sabalenka the women's, as the draw is set Sinner's withdrawal hands Zverev the top men's seeding ahead of defending champion Alcaraz; Sabalenka, Rybakina, Pegula and Gauff head the women's order. 1 min read · 28 Aug 2026 27 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Wawrinka gets a late wild card and draws Berrettini in his farewell slam The 2016 champion returns for a final US Open; Stan Wawrinka opens against Matteo Berrettini. 1 min read · 27 Aug 2026 27 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Rybakina, Swiatek and Gauff can all leave New York at No. 1 Rybakina starts the fortnight 434 points behind Sabalenka, with Swiatek and a Cincinnati-winning Gauff also holding paths to the top ranking. 1 min read · 27 Aug 2026 26 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Serena and Venus Williams take a doubles wild card The sisters play a Grand Slam together for the first time since 2022; Venus, 46, also has a singles wild card against Sofia Kenin. 1 min read · 26 Aug 2026 26 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Sinner withdraws from the US Open with a knee injury The world No. 1 misses a Grand Slam for the first time since 2019, and the men's seeding is redrawn around his absence. 1 min read · 26 Aug 2026 25 Aug Latest news Awaiting review US Open puts up a record $108m — and $140,000 for losing in round one The 2026 purse is the largest in Grand Slam history: singles champions take $5.5m, and every player in the main draw banks six figures. 1 min read · 25 Aug 2026 24 Aug Latest news Awaiting review Federer plays Arthur Ashe again — for one exhibition night only The five-time champion appears at Fan Week alongside Agassi, Roddick and McEnroe, and has categorically ruled out a competitive comeback. 1 min read · 24 Aug 2026 23 Aug New products Awaiting review The racquets of 2026, half a season in: new is not always better A mid-season read of the year's frames finds the Blade 98 and Pure Drive 100 improving on their predecessors — while two of the biggest spin updates are being outplayed by the models they replaced. 1 min read · 23 Aug 2026