Head Speed Team
The Team build of the Head Speed. A teardrop head with a medium balance, so the weight sits neither back in the hand nor forward over the ball. It is an all-round frame at intermediate level. Read the build word before the model year when comparing two Speed listings: the year moves every season while the build word is what actually changes the racket.
Shape
Teardrop
Balance
Medium
Hardness
Soft
Core
Foam
Style
All-round
Level
Intermediate
About the Head Speed Team
The head is a teardrop, which keeps a usable sweet spot while still carrying weight towards the tip, so it works at both ends of the court. The balance is medium, which is the least committed of the four profiles. The face is soft, which widens the margin on off-centre contact. The core is foam rather than EVA, which is why it feels more damped at contact than the stiffness rating suggests. Within the Head Speed, Team is the build word that separates this racket from its siblings; a model year on a listing describes the season it was sold in rather than where it sits in the range. Speed is HEAD's all-court family and the successor to the older Alpha line, carrying Alpha's Pro, Motion and Elite tiers across when the name changed.
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Matched on shape first, then the rest of the spec sheet — same playing character, different maker.
