What is the difference between a racketball and tennis racket?

Question

my mom and I joined a gym and learned about the sport racketball. When she went to the store she baught 2 rackets that didn't say is they were tennis or racketball rackets. They look alot like tennis rackets due to the oval shape of the head, so I was wondering if they are

tennis rackets or not

Answer 1

Racquetball rackets are smaller.

Answer 2

Racketball raquets tend to be either very long and ovalish, or squareish. They also do not have a "neck" which is the part on a tennis raquet that seperates the grip from the strings. Also, they are not strung at the bottom, leaving a pretty big triangle from the bottom to a couple inches up. A tennis raquet tend to have either circular shaped heads, or slightly oval shaped heads. they do have necks, and they are strung a little bit closer to the bottom than the raketball racked, leaving less of a space at the bottom. Plus, that space is a semi circle and not a triangle. It is very possible to use a racketball raquet in tennis and vice versa, it just does not happen very often.

Racketball Raquet: http://images.buzzillions.com/images_pro...

Tennis Raquet: http://www.whatsalltheracquet.com/archiv...

Hope this helps :)

Answer 3

racketball rackets look almost square, and it goes straight from the grip to the frame.

tennis rackets keep going straight a few inches after the grip ends, then slowly splits out and forms the little hole that someone else mentioned.  

so if it looks short and  'stumpy' it's probably a racketball  racket, and if it looks like a tennis racket... then it's probably a tennis racket!

Answer 4

Tennis rackets usually have a whole in the part above the grip, it doenst make a big difference but if you are a serious racket ball player i would just look for a racket ball racket.