To be accurate they’re all composites in that the strands of graphite are laid in a bed of resin. The best recent racquet I’ve owned is a prince cheapie half fibreglass half carbon, for touch and power. Of course it is an unfashionable composite but I can frustrate better players with the spin it produces.
WTF graphite vs graphite composite? this is bullshit. All "graphite/carbon" racquets are made of composite materials. A resin holding together the reinforcement fibers is needed in order to bring the end frame properties into a reality. There is no such thing as "full graphite/carbon" racquet, it's all composite. The difference betwen top and mid level racquets is in quality control, the complexity of the building of the frame, that is made with several pieces of carbon compisite fiber arranged in different ways, and the price (quality) of origin materials. Graphene, basalt, BLX, etc... is usually just marketing (not meaning these materials are not really in the frame, but that they really do not make such a big difference).
You're missing the point here. Graphite composites are used as a term here in the UK to explain Aluminium/Graphite composite frames. Where the bridge/yolk of the racket may be Graphite but the frame is aluminium. It's quite a popular frame construction to keep costs down
@@allthingstennis Should have specified that in the video, otherwise the video sounds like you don't know what you're talking about. The graphite rackets aren't full graphite, otherwise they'd be as brittle as pencil lead. All these rackets except the full aluminum ones are a composite of a fibre of some form of carbon in a glue/epoxy matrix.
