The Pure Drive is designed to rock the ball. The Pure Aero wants to make it dance. Babolat fashions the Pure Strike for players who want to play attacking tennis—take the ball on the rise and use ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and sneaker tech. Dominic Thiem serves as Babolat’s face of its Pure Strike ...

The Pure Drive 98 replaces the outgoing VS model. Both share the same frame dimensions, but the update boasts an additional 5g and a shift in balance that puts more of its weight towards the head. As ...