StarVie Raptor Soft
The Soft build of the StarVie Raptor. A round head with a low balance, which keeps it quick to move and easy to recover with at the net. It is a control frame at intermediate and advanced level. Read the build word before the model year when comparing two Raptor listings: the year moves every season while the build word is what actually changes the racket.
Shape
Round
Balance
Low
Hardness
Soft
Core
EVA
Style
Control
Level
Intermediate · Advanced
About the StarVie Raptor Soft
The head is a round, which centres the sweet spot in the middle of the face, which is where a player who defends and constructs actually makes contact. The balance is low, so the racket stays easy to move through a long match. The face is soft, which widens the margin on off-centre contact. The core is EVA. Within the StarVie Raptor, Soft 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. The Raptor is StarVie's round-shaped family, built for precision and a wider sweet spot, and it splits into a Pro and a Soft build like most of the catalogue.
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