Coaches and club players trying the SABER tennis racket | Tennis racket review | Functional Tennis 

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Agreed 👍 and it actually felt extremely solid this thing…it is high quality…it’s worth it if you have a group or a team and you buy it together. You’ll use it once in a while but not every time you play.

Not sure about that. I lift my eyes just before contact and still hit the center sweet spot more often than I miss it. But in order to increase the accuracy this tool should be fine for almost everybody. Maybe not for spin monsters like Nadal, because that's not really possible with that stick a teaches straight shots.

@@sebastiandomagala9233 a racquet with a smaller hitting area requires more precision of the swing which requires more focus on the proper striking of the ball. You simply cannot do this without a greater visual focus on the ball itself and the relationship between the racquet relative to the incoming ball. To say it more plainly, use of a smaller racquet head, on its face, requires greater focus on the racquet meeting the ball. There is no way to rationally dispute that. Even if you close your eyes just as the racquet strikes the ball. The real work is already done to ensure the racquet strikes the ball properly and that is by watching where and when that contact between racquet and ball will happen to create an effective shot.

@@ReidVV I don't see much difference between closing the eyes and looking somewhere else. But yes, a proper focus on the ball is necessary. And the longer you keep staring at the ball the more precisely you can hit it. BUT: sometimes you don't have enough time. E.g. when returning fast serves, you determine where to hit it before the ball comes at you. You wouldn't have enough time anyway if you relied only one eye sight. And so I do hit them balls without staring at them like Federer. Maybe I should. But I learned with wooden racquets (yes, I am that old) on red clay. With all its bad bounces. And I hit them well enough for 44 years now.

​I'm just saying, if you got your hands on one of these small racquet head practice tools, you'd probably find yourself making a much greater concentration of tracking the ball into the small sweetspot of the racquet face, as that seems like the entire point for the invention of the device. I don't think the main purpose of creating this device was to practice first serve returns, though it certainly could be used for that, too. That's all. All the best 🙂

@@ReidVV I think this is a great analysis. This racket indeed forces to keep eye contact until the very last split of a second and in some cases, even beyond that if you need to drive the ball a bit longer to change direction.

Let’s bring that out…we will have a Saber battle 🥳🥳😀😀

Gert using it!!! Should be part of your warm up!!

Yea, it actually felt super solid and was higher quality than we thought.

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