Adidas metalbone 3.5 2026

Love/hate story with the metalbone, Volleys and overheads feel amazing, there’s a lot of free power and the head-heavy balance really helps when you’re accelerating through the ball. The downside for me is definitely defense. You feel the weight in the head, especially when you’re under pressure at the back and need to react quickly. It’s not impossible to defend with, but you need to prepare earlier and I notice I’m late more often than with a lighter teardrop racket. Overall I’d say it’s a fun racket if you like attacking and don’t mind a head-heavy feel that will make you lose some edge when you are in the back.

I love the easy power the metalbone give me, the long handle is great when attacking but can make you little more slow to get to the ball when defending, the sweet spot is not huge but got used to it after a few games. My lobs can came short sometime unlike my nox10 at18k but it's expected from diamond racket. overall I love it and it really improved my level of aggression.