Adidas Metalbone 3.4 2025 Reviews

Feels way more explosive on overheads with the 2025 update than last year's model because the longer handle gives you serious leverage. The head has a nice cushioned rebound where the ball sinks in and fires right back out with extra pace. Moving the weight tracks higher up on the neck also frees up room if you like using a two-handed backhand. That said, it's noticeably head-heavy and the sweet spot is smaller and higher up than before. If you aren't consistently centering the ball, you'll struggle with mishits and might prefer the rounder Control version instead.

Nice power on clean hits, but a small sweet spot, dead mishits and blocks that fly into the glass.

Medium touch with more rebound and free power, but harder to move with its long handle and top weight.

Loved the control, power and manoeuvrability, but got arm pain within 30 minutes and found it too heavy.

Got a longer 13 cm handle and reactive soft core, so swinging overhead feels much punchier this year. You'll get easy ball speed on víboras and kick smashes without swinging out of your shoes. Still, the sharper diamond mold shrinks the sweet spot and makes defense slower, so taking out the frame screws helps.

A few games: slightly more power than the TL10 but they disliked the springy 3K face.

Owns the Metalbone 3.4 and an Oxdog Ultimate Pro: the Adidas is a bit more unpredictable when blocking but gives more free power for heavy hitters.

After about 10 rackets, the original Metalbone 3.4 (2025) is perfect for them: easy to defend with good power, and much better for them than the Babolat Air Viper.

Tried it and found it amazing: light and comfortable to swing, letting them play more aggressively despite preferring control rackets.

Noticeably more power and arm comfort than stiffer rackets that caused post-match elbow pain.