Let us do the sums properly, because a racquet is a purchase and purchases should balance. The Speed Team is the light, forgiving end of the Speed line, redesigned in 2024 with a bigger head, a longer frame and less weight than the generation before it. What you are buying is easy power and easy handling. What you are giving up is the stability that comes with mass.
That is the ledger, both sides of it, and for a great many club players it comes out well ahead.
The entries. A 105 square inch head — 677 square centimetres — which is larger than average and buys you a bigger sweet spot and a livelier string bed. Length 27.2 inches, marginally long, which adds reach and leverage. Balance 6 points head light at 325 mm and swingweight 305, so it moves quickly for volleys, serves and returns.
Nine point five ounces, 270 grams unstrung.
An even 24 mm beam, flex 61 — soft, comfortable, easy on the arm — and an open 16 by 19 pattern strung between 48 and 57 pounds. Auxetic 2.0 for feel, Graphene for stability, and a surface finish developed with a Swiss lacquer house that is softer to the touch and genuinely more resistant to wear, which is one of the few cosmetic outlays that returns something. Style 236034.
Nukus understands a good acquisition. Igor Savitsky went out into the desert and quietly bought up thousands of canvases that were banned everywhere else, on credit the state kept extending, and built one of the most extraordinary collections in the world in a town almost nobody could reach. It was worth every som.
The books did not balance for years.
You will swing this frame everywhere from a beginners' group to a long social doubles morning, and it is also perfect for a plate of Karakalpak beshbarmak afterwards, which arrives in a quantity that makes any arithmetic about portion size entirely academic.
The correct question is never what it weighs. It is what it returns.
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