Diego Schwartzman might not be the tallest player on the ATP circuit but he sure packs a punch in his tennis and that can be seen from the fact he is a top 10 player. Which is why if you are looking to understand how he does that, here’s a lot more about Diego Schwartzman’s racquet along with its specifications, customization and other players has been explained in this piece below.
Unlike some of his peers, Schwartzman has been a late bloomer, especially by today’s standards. He played at his first Grand Slam main draw match as a 22-year-old, and reached his first ever quarterfinal at a major when he was 26.
That result came at the 2017 US Open, where he managed another quarterfinal in 2019, but his favourite surface is clay. And that shows in his results at not just the French Open, where he has been a quarterfinalist in 2018 and a semifinalist in 2020, but also at the other tournaments.
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Schwartzman’s maiden title came on clay, having won the Istanbul Open in 2016 before doubling that count at the Rio Open in 2018 – also on clay.
The Argentine’s best showing at the time of writing, however, was at the Italian Open in the highly-curtailed 2020 season where he defeated the favourite Rafael Nadal to stroll into the final.
It was his maiden Masters final appearance and while he went down fighting to Novak Djokovic, he had done enough to help himself to a place in the ATP Finals for the first time ever.
In more recent times, Schwartzman has shown improvement on hard courts too, with a title win on the surface at the Los Cabos Open, and the finals at the Vienna Open and the Cologne Championship.
Not surprisingly, Schwartzman’s game is centred around being a baseliner, but more importantly he is a brilliant counter-puncher, and with an ability to convert a defensive position into an offensive one.
A lack of a powerful serve because of his height – he is one of the shorter players on the tour at 5’7″ – is compensated by his awesome returns and excellent speed on court.
So, Which is Diego Schwartzman’s Racquet?
Diego Schwartzman uses the Head Radical racquet with a paint-job of the racquet he endorses, i.e. the Head Graphene XT Radical Pro with strings from Luxilon Alu Power 1.25.
Get the original Head Graphene XT Radical Pro racquet specifications below (this is the racquet Schwartzman endorses).
- Length: 27 in/68.58 cm
- Head Size: 98 sq.in./632 sq.cm
- Weight: Strung: 11.6 oz/329 g
- Tension: TBA
- Balance: 12.75 in/32 cm/6 pts HL
- Beam Width: 20 mm/23 mm/21 mm
- Composition: Graphite/Graphene
- Swing Weight: 332
- String Pattern: 16 Mains/19 Crosses
Watch the below video reviewing the racquet Diego Schwartzman endorses, the Head Graphene XT Radical Pro Racket:
There are multiple ways to buy the Head Graphene XT Radical Pro, and you can check on the various options here: How to buy Tennis Equipment in the USA. By checking on the cost of this racquet offered by Amazon you can then compare it with the other stores and according go for the best possible cost.