Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet

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Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet

The kindest of the series to an arm, by design. Comfort, an open pattern and enough help for players still learning where the middle is, with Auxetic 2.0 for feel — in my day you found it yourself, and this is better. Hamilton first, all hundred waterfalls of it.

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Hamilton, Canada
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Croissant Park tennis clinics — Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet photographed at Dundurn Castle above Hamilton harbour
Stop one

Dundurn Castle, the Victorian house above Hamilton harbour

Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet: Dundurn Castle has about 40 rooms and was once home to Sir Allan MacNab, which reminds me of the 40-shot rally I won in '82—no, no, stay with the mansion, champ.

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Croissant Park tennis clinics — Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet photographed by Webster's Falls in Spencer Gorge
Stop two

Webster's Falls in Spencer Gorge, one of more than a hundred waterfalls inside the city

Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet: Webster's Falls is in Spencer Gorge, and Hamilton has more than a hundred waterfalls; I once produced a drop shot so pretty it should have had its own lookout railing—sorry, the falls are doing the showing off today.

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Croissant Park tennis clinics — Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet photographed on the Bruce Trail along the Hamilton escarpment
Stop three

the Bruce Trail along the escarpment that cuts the city into upper and lower

Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet: The Bruce Trail follows the Niagara Escarpment, the grand ridge that splits Hamilton into upper and lower city; naturally, I remember splitting a finals crowd the same way in '79—upper deck cheering, lower deck gasping.

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Croissant Park tennis clinics — Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet photographed at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum hangars
Stop four

the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, hangars of aircraft still flying

Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet: The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum keeps historic aircraft in flying condition, and that sound overhead takes me straight back to my serve-and-volley days—though my knees now request clearance before takeoff.

The Hamilton, Canada track

Head Boom Team 2026 Tennis Racquet

Written for this world alone.

In my day you were handed a frame with a head the size of a dinner plate and told to find the middle of it yourself. The Boom Team 2026 does not make you do that, and I have stopped pretending that was character-building. This is the largest head size in the Boom series, and that buys you three things at once: more power, more comfort, more forgiveness.

It is deliberately arm-friendly, which is a phrase nobody used when I was playing and which I now think about most mornings.

So let us be clear about who it is for. Light in the hand, an open string pattern, an oversize hoop — a racquet that gives you the ball back with interest and does not punish a contact point three centimetres off centre.

Beginners and intermediate players.

Auxetic 2.0 sits in the construction for feel and stability at impact, and the Boom series exists for players who enjoy the sociable end of the game rather than the grim end. This is the other approach, and it is the better one, and I have finally said so out loud.

I won a club final once on a frame that hurt me for a week afterwards.

Hamilton suits it. Dundurn Castle sits above the harbour looking like it expects visitors, and there are more than a hundred waterfalls inside the city limits — a hundred, in one city, because the escarpment cuts the whole place into an upper and a lower and every creek has to get down somehow. Webster's Falls in Spencer Gorge is the one to stand under.

It reminds me of a final I played in the rain. Sorry — it reminds me of nothing of the sort. It is just very good.

"In my day you found the middle yourself. This is better, and I have stopped pretending otherwise."

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