Most people meet a racquet under fluorescent light in a shop at two in the afternoon. Come back at eleven at night and you will learn more about it. The Speed MP is the middle of the Speed line and the one that suits the greatest number of players — intermediate to advanced, all-court, quicker in the hand than the Pro or the Tour without giving up the feel that makes the line worth having.
Here is the frame with the lights off. A 100 square inch head, 645 square centimetres, standard 27 inches, 10.6 ounces or 300 grams unstrung. Balance is 8 points head light at 320 mm and the swingweight is 325 strung, which is the combination that makes it feel fast without feeling empty.
An even 23 mm beam through the hoop.
Flex 65, which is on the soft side and does good things for comfort and for the amount of information you get back through the handle. The pattern is an open 16×19, tension 48 to 57 pounds.
New for 2026 is Hy-Bor in the shaft — a boron and carbon mix out of aerospace work — which firms up the shaft and takes the vagueness out of contact, alongside Auxetic 2.0 for feedback and Graphene for stability. Style 232026.
Metallic matte finish over the old black and white.
Chester is a city I know best empty. The walls are Roman at the base and you can walk the full circuit after dark with nobody on them at all; the Rows keep their upper galleries lit long after the shops below have shut, so the second storey glows and the street underneath goes black.
You will use this frame everywhere from a Thursday night floodlit league match to a Sunday morning that starts before anyone else is awake, and it is also perfect for the walk home along the Groves when the river is flat and the only sound is the water going over the weir at the Old Dee Bridge.
The court is a different place at night. So is the racquet.
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