Head Extreme Tour tennis racquet review
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2021
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Weight (unstrung) : 305 g
Balance : 31,5 cm / 9 pts HL
Swingweight : 318
Head Size : 632 cm² / 98 in²
String pattern : 16x19
Beam Width : 22/23/21 mm
Stiffness : 65
Length : 68,5 cm
Head Extreme Tour tennis racquet review
For a racquet that is a bit control oriented, the Head Extreme Tour is one of the powerful tennis racquet, same for the access to top spin.
Very easy to swing, comfortable and rather forgiving for its category.
Interesting for tennis players :
- with a modern game, a bit agressive, with top spin (not huge top spin, see a bigger frame instead in that case),
- looking for a tennis racquet control oriented but at the same time with a good amount of power,
- looking for a racquet easy to swing. 
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Glad to see you back on this channel, Jean Pierre! Looking forward to more videos hopefully!
Thank you ! I think I'm going to publish again on this channel !
Great to see you back in this channel! Excellente review as always. Cheers from Argentina!
Hello Argentina !! Thank you for your kind comment.
Great to see you back as I do appreciate your knowledge on racquets.....looks like an interesting racquet too.
Thank you ! Yes I find it interesting. I hesitate to switch to that racquet. I'd like just a bit more swingweight but maybe it can be customized. I'm going to test it again with some lead tape.
Great to have you back sir, always a good contents and recommendations. Hope to see more reviews from you. Great work, weldone
thank you !
Glad to see you back. I recently transitioned to this racquet from the Head G360 Radical Pro and found it to be a realtively natural change. I have both Extreme G360+ Tour and Radical G360 Pro strung with Lynx Tour in the main, and MLT in the crosses at 24kg and find that the Extreme gives easier access to power and spin. Can't wait to see your future reviews!
Hey ! Thanks for your feedback. Yes for me the Extreme Tour is more powerful and top spin friendly than the Radical, easier to swing also. Maybe less stable.
Great to see you back.
Thank you for your message !
Great to see you‘re back
Thank you, I'll try to stay !
Great to see you back👋👋
Thank you !
Hi Jean Pierre! Greetings from Croatia! Welcome back! I’m subscribed to quite a few tennis channels, and in my opinion, your reviews are maybe the best and most objective. Cheers!
Thank you for your message. I try to be objective indeed !
i love your english content! thanks for the great review
Great, thanks !!
Finally, you are back. I can't believe. Hope to see more contents. Your playtest is so cool
Thank you, nice comment. I'll try to make english videos again, even if they're a bit shorter than my french ones. Which is not the case for this one :)
@@team-tennisenglish1514 All your vids are very informative. And your strokes are so clean and fluent. Miss you so much. Let me ask a question. How is the comfort compared with Speed mp 360+. Witch one do you prefer more?
@@jlan6723 Thank you. Both are comfortable. I prefer the Extreme Tour for its manoeuvrability and its control but not for the comfort.
Keep it up JP, always liked your videos. Great to see you have an english channel now. Merci :D
thank you for your message !
Switch to this bad boy from the Speed. This frame definitely needed some lead, after customization now it feels amazing, gives me exactly what I put out!
Interesting you also felt it needed to increase the swingweight a bit
@@team-tennisenglish1514 it was a bit pingy and unstable in stock form I must say, maybe that’s why you felt it had the same power level as the Speed because you could swing it very fast, but I felt it had very little weight behind the ball. After adding 4 grams of lead my experience changed a lot, I felt I could hit a heavier and more consistent ball thanks to better plowthrough. I’d say this is more of a control stick with some good pop rather than a twenner style frame like the Speed, cheers!
I agree...it def needs customisation but once you get it right it's just amazing balance of spin, control and power.
Welcome back!
Hey ! Thanks !
Great content as always with fine English. Tks for the review. Greeting from Vietnam.
Thank you for this comment.
@@team-tennisenglish1514 My wife loves your accent!
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Always great reviews! I recently switched to this racquet and also really like it. Also for the maneuverability and spin with enough control. I really love Lynx Tour but hated it with this racquet, it was very pingy as someone else mentioned. I have tried hyper G (regular and soft 17ga), Ultra Cable and Cyclone 18ga. All are much better but I prefer this racquet with a dead feeling string like hyper G and UC.
Thank you ! What do you mean by pingy ? I don'r know that term.
@@team-tennisenglish1514 High-pitched metallic sound.
@@team-tennisenglish1514 hollow feeling, high pitched, not solid
Hollow feeling, it's a bit true. I like the racquet but when you like to have something really solid in your hand, it might feel a bit too light. Especially the one I had for the test, in my opinion the weight unstrung is closer to 300 g than 305.
Your English is great! How many native English speakers are bi- or multi-lingual after all! You make excellent racquet reviews, so it’s always good to see content from you. If you have no time, maybe consider putting in English subs in your French reviews? Tennis gear heads watch reviews in any language!
Thank you. I think It'll be faster to make the video in english, I'm going to keep my videos simple, even in french so it should take less time.
Impressive hitting and I totally agree with your review. I had a chance to compare the ET to the Rad-MP and Speed-MP recently (all latest versions). The feel is great on all of them. I found the Rad-MP good but a bit head-heavy, so fine for baseline, but a little clunky elsewhere. The Speed-MP was very nice too, more spin and power because of the 100 sqi, but still well controlled. Then the ET was very interesting because as you said it feels quite light and whippy, but it still does have good power, spin and control. Overall for me the Speed-MP is ready to go, but I would prefer to get an ET and, as you mentioned, add a few grams of lead to the hoop and it could be perfect.
I like the ET but there's something that bothers me a bit, I don't have a solid feeling, like the racquet is a bit hollow and too light. I'm going to search for something else.I'd like to try : Babolat Pure Aero VS, Head prestige MP L, Yonex VCore 98, Head Radical MP.
@@team-tennisenglish1514 I concur. Sometimes the ET handle area felt more hollow than usual, weirdly. Anyway, if you want a more solid feel, as I mention below you should definitely try the Dunlop CX200 (98). It's also interesting because the specs say 21.5mm beam, but I have measured it to be more like 21mm and the graphite thus feels a bit more solid in my experience. Try it in a grip size too small because the Dunlop grip comes up a bit large. I found it to be a good 'all-round' racket: nothing was amazing, but nothing was bad either.
@@oliverdesouza5741 Yes why not, could be interesting also. I'll see if I can get one for testing.
@@team-tennisenglish1514 awesome that you’ve started doing English reviews again! It seems like we have smiliar tastes in racquets as I’m thinking of upgrading my set of 2nd gen 16x19 Pure Strikes and I’ve had my eye on the Extreme Tour, Aero VS, EZONE and VCore. I’d love to hear what have to say about them and how they compare!
@@oliverdesouza5741 extreme tour or radical mp ?
Thnks ..looking forward for Yonex Ezone 2022 review ...👍👍👍
I'll see. Next I'd like to make a review of the Head Boom MP and Pro.
You should check out Dunlop FX 500 Tour. Very underrated racket. Similar to this one and also Pure drive vs and Ezone 98 2022
Indeed it sounds interesting for a 98 frame with a nice power. I don't find the EZone 98 very powerful but I'd need to test it with low tension.
Hi Jean Pierre, very nice reviews! In few words what´s the diferences between Extreme Tour and Speed Pro 360 +?
Thank you ! Speed Pro heavier, feels more solid. Extreme better for top spin and fast swings. Power not so far finally but try to determine precisely the max weight you can handle first.
Love this racket. Needs a bit of customisation but I actually like that as I get to make it play according to my game. Find it to have the perfect blend of spin, power and control and also arm friendly. It's amongst the best serving rackets I've ever had too
Great if you like 😀
Hi! I'm an intermediate player currently using a Babolat Pure Aero, hit with a lot of topspin (coming from table tennis) and find the racquet is not very arm-friendly and also a bit too much of a rocket. I've been considering making the switch to the Head Extreme line, given it's a spin-oriented racquet but with a little bit more comfort, and depending on the specific racquet, control. Would you recommend the Head Extreme MP or the Head Extreme Tour?
Good idea to try the extreme line. For the model, it depends on you. For the most top spin, MP, for a bit more control, the Tour, which also gives a nice access to top spin.
Great video. Could you compare it to the Prince tExtreme Tour 100p? Thanks
Thank you. Vortex more powerful basically. Better access to top spin also. Head shape more rounded.
Hello. Did you feel a strong vibration from Extreme tour? I have been playing with it for a month and my elbow started to hurt, although there were no such problems with my previous racket wilson blade. I felt that Extreme tour is not enough dampened and it seems this is the reason for the pain in the elbow.
Hello, no, no vibrations felt. Haven't you changed the strings ?
Nice review!! However I don't agree with how you ranked it in terms of power. I come from the Babolat Pure Strike 98 16x19 (2nd gen), and I find this Head Extreme Tour provides way less power and a much lower launch angle. For a 16x19, the string pattern is quite dense, specially in the center. I agree that it needs some customization, I added 6 grams of lead at 3 & 9 and I think the racket improved substantially.
Ok, that's why it's good to try the racquets. For me, the access to top spin was very easy, for my partner also who has chosen this racquet.
Where in your powerlist would you place the Blade v7, if you have tested this? Thx
The Blade is less powerful than the Extreme Tour, rather low powered.
Hello JP. Excellent review! In terms of spin+control you prefer the Gravity MP or the Extreme tour? Gerard from Argentina.
Hello ! For control the Gravity MP is better. For spin, rather close, maybe the extreme.
Thanks a lot, very useful your expert opinion. Where I live they don’t provide demo raquets and sometimes it’s difficult to choose the correct one. I will go for the Gravity MP. Merci JP!
Ok, let me know how it feels if you want
@@team-tennisenglish1514Finally I bought the V Core 100, thinking about something with more power and spin and specially more easy to use, handle in games than my previous Blade V6 98. I was afraid that the Gravity MP have too much control for me. With V Core 100 I feel very comfortable, I can play without tired my arm/shoulder during 2 hours. Lack very little control that I managed with effects and tension string . I prefered in the global this bit lack of control. Very nice racquet VCORE 100. Excuse for my poor English 🙏
I forgot to say that I am 48, and decided to bought the V Core 100 after watching al your reviews and comments. Thanks JP.
Can u please review the BOLT tennis rackets
Currently I lack time to make english videos, I focus more on my french channel : ruclips.net/channel/UCqGAOHUzLzn65bJIPid-m6A
With regard to stability, how do you find this racquet against the 2020 Yonex Ezone 98, 2021 VCore 98, Pure Drive VS, and Radical MP (Orange)?
In my test, I didn't find the power to be as high as my 2018 Yonex Ezone 98 either. That could be the string? I am testing racquets against my Ezone 98. I like the above, any other you would suggest for similar control, possibly a little bit more free power/spin?
Stability correct, close to the radical MP I think, but not crazy because feels light, at least the racquet I had for the demo. Maybe you have more power with Ezone 98 because of the higher swingweight and the balance point more towards the head.
@@team-tennisenglish1514Yes maybe I'm able to come through the ball faster and with more assertion.
I've also had some power come from the string selection. I'm playing the PTP 1.15 (experimenting) and will likely find comfort with the 1.20 @ 45lbs.
I did really enjoy the movement and feeling of the VCore 95, but had to generate most of my power. I'm looking for something more like the Ezone 98 to demo. Thank you for your response. It's hard to get a demo of the Babolat VS Series in Melbourne, Victoria.
Please review Head Extreme MP 2020 or 2022 🤗
I'll try !
Speed mp has more free power. Extreme tour better feel. To me radical mp is the best overall stick from head now. Best mold is gravity tour :)
Yes Radical MP is interesting, especially now it's at 300 g unstrung. I should test it !
@@team-tennisenglish1514 please also mention how it plays against extreme tour and which one you prefer and why when you will upload your video review of boom pro.
@@TheodorosKolokotronis799 First I need to play with the Boom Pro, I just hit a few balls but I'm currently injured at the ankle. I think the Boom Pro will be too heavy for me and a bit too control oriented.
@@team-tennisenglish1514 interesting. So less spin than boom mp. Which feel and feedback you prefer ? Extreme tours or boom ? Which one you know better where the ball is gonna land ?
@@TheodorosKolokotronis799 Yes better spin with the boom MP. Boom Pro more solid and precise. I'll need to make a serious session to test it well.
Should try the new Aero VS
Yes indeed it's interesting
@@team-tennisenglish1514 it’s the best babolat stick since aero pro drive. String it low with a soft poly it’s not 100% arm friendly
@@TheodorosKolokotronis799 I'll test it if possible
Jean Pierre, Please let us know the racquet you choose to replace the Clash!
I don't know yet. For a while I'll go on with the Yonex Vcore 100.
Hi, how did you compare to Tecnifibre fight 300 rs?
A bit more control with the TF, TF less top spin friendly, Extreme easier to swing. But the TF is not bad either.
And Better feel on the ex tour I would say
What do you feel would be a good string for this racket?
For me the string must fit the player more than the racquet. Depends on your feelings.
Solinco Confidential 1.20 mm at 52 to 54 pounds fits perfectly. And I've tested many combos in this most excellent stick 😊
@@joakimharlin9030 have you tried 1.15?
@@pajavampir nope only 1.20, 1.25 and hybrids including 1.30
Can you review it with prestige S 2020?
I'd like to test the Prestige S, now called MP L. I'll try to get it.
@@team-tennisenglish1514 a little bit different between prestige s 2019 and mpl 2021
@@Roquang I guess so. Head can't stop changing the weight of the racquet ; 295, 305 and now 300. I don't know what they are doing.