{"id":209556,"date":"2025-10-13T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209556\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:34:08","slug":"the-current-player-on-the-atp-tour-who-has-a-crazy-tennis-racket-which-is-different-to-any-other-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209556\/","title":{"rendered":"The current player on the ATP Tour who has a ‘crazy’ tennis racket which is different to any other in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/ Follow us on Google Discover <\/a> <\/p>\n

Tennis is a sport of fine details, and when it comes to the equipment used by the top players, most do not tend to vary much at all. <\/p>\n

Stars on both the ATP<\/a> and WTA<\/a> tours will only make small changes in the weight and string tension of their rackets. <\/p>\n

There is one player on the men\u2019s side, however, who opts for a vastly different approach to everyone else. <\/p>\n

Serena Williams<\/a>\u2018 former coach, Patrick Mouratoglou<\/a>, recently revealed the \u2018master tactician\u2019, whose racket is \u2018crazy\u2019. <\/p>\n

\"PatrickPhoto by Jean Catuffe\/Getty ImagesPatrick Mouratoglou names the \u2018master tactician\u2019 in men\u2019s tennis<\/p>\n

In a post on Instagram, Mouratoglou said: \u201cAdrian [Mannarino] is a unique case. First of all, he\u2019s the player whose racket tension is the lowest in history for sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has eight kilos. I mean, who does that? That\u2019s crazy. How can you play with eight kilos? You ask any player, can you play with 15 kilos, they will say \u2018no chance\u2019, and he\u2019s playing with 8.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the fact that his tension is so low makes him really feel the ball. There is this, what we call the trampoline effect, where the ball goes into the strings and as the strings are really low tension, it throws the ball back, so it gives a lot of power, but much less control. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo he has a crazy touch to be able to control the ball with the eight-kilo racket. Why? Because he\u2019s a player who is a typical counter-puncher. He is not someone who is going to try to dictate. It is not his style at all.<\/p>\n

\"AdrianPhoto by Dylan Buell\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going to always play the zones with the height that is the best possible, so you cannot attack, and if you attack, you\u2019re going to miss by taking too much risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe covers the court extremely well, and he has a backhand that is quite unique. His technique is completely atypical. His tension is atypical.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really interesting to watch him because he is definitely a master tactician, and he has to be. He has this lefty serve that is crazy because he finds unbelievable angles.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe returns extremely well, and if you look at his career, he\u2019s done a lot of great things,\u00a0 because it\u2019s so difficult to play that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adrian Mannarino\u2019s career statistics on the ATP Tour<\/p>\n

Since turning professional in 2004, Adrian Mannarino has managed to clinch five ATP titles and reach a career high of 17th in the world. <\/p>\n

It was not until 2019 that the Frenchman claimed his first tour-level crown, emerging victorious in \u2018s-Hertogenbosch that year. <\/p>\n

He won in Winston-Salem in 2022, and in 2023, he had his best year, triumphing in Newport, Astana, and Sofia. <\/p>\n

At Grand Slams, Mannarino has only ever gone as far as the fourth round, which he recently managed at this year\u2019s US Open before losing to Jiri Lehecka. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Tennis is a sport of fine details, and when it comes to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[73512,753,64,63,1520,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-209556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-adrian-mannarino","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-patrick-mouratoglou","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}