What Are Customized Racket Frames?

What’s a customized racket frame? There are actually four answers.

First, all the manufacturers make custom frames for their tour players. These are frames made by the factory to a player’s specs which can include changing the stiffness.

You can be certain that these frames are different–often far different–than the frames they want to sell you, but the specific changes are usually kept secret. (For the inside story of what we were able to find out about Rafa Nadal’s actual rackets, Click Here.)

Second Variation

A big racket company isn’t going to make you custom frames the way they do for tour players. But, the second option is for players to purchase frames made to their exact own specs from smaller specialty companies like Angell. (Click Here.)

These rackets can include exotic components such as “micro braided layers,” “foam cores,” and “aramid fiber,” which is used to stop bullets. Player can designate head size, weight, stiffness, balance, swing weight, even length and color. Angell also sells commercial versions of their most popular custom choices.

Third Variation

The third type of customized rackets, and the most common, are frames that are individually matched. These are stock commercial frames that racket technicians…