Choosing Junior Tennis Racquets
If you’ve a young tennis player on your hand, in that case you know it is time to invest in some junior tennis racquets. Of course it wouldn’t sound right for a kid playing small League to use an adult sized bat, so children playing tennis too shouldn’t be using full sized racquets. Junior tennis racquets come in several variations and the key to picking the right one customarily rests in its size.
Of course the phrase junior tennis racquets is really broad and therefore there is room for different classifications within this broad system. Depending on the age and size of your kid, you’ll need a different choice of racquet.
As your child grows, you’ll need to upgrade the racquet several times along the way to ensure that they have the right racquet for their wants. Thus it’s best need to splash out on junior tennis racquets; you may only get 1 or 2 years of solid use out of them.
If your child is less than 5 years of age and is hitting the courts, or stands at less than four feet tall, you want an especially tiny junior tennis racquets with frames no longer than 21 inches.
In this same range, you should look for junior tennis racquets that weigh approximately 7 ounces without the strings and have a head size of roughly ninety inches. These junior tennis racquets will be large enough to allow your youngster to enjoy success with an expanded sweet spot, but will be tiny enough for them to easily wield and learn with.
Over the following few years, until your child reaches about eight years old or is taller than four and a half feet, you can size up to a racket with a 23 or 25 inch frame, with a bigger head size of about one hundred inches. Look for junior tennis racquets with an eight oz frame for this size.
These junior tennis racquets will accommodate your child’s additional size and strength while getting them used to the adult sized racquets they can soon be in a position to switch to.
Junior tennis racquets are all about size, because a child’s size and strength changes so rapidly, you want racquets that are designed in particular for them. Be prepared to buy many numerous junior tennis racquets over the course of a few years if your youngster started especially young, because she will quickly grow beyond the racquet that was started with.
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