The 2024-2025 Racquet Season Has Begun

The release of racquetball racquets has taken an interesting turn in the last few weeks. Four of the top five companies have released or announced releases of their 2024-2025 models. This mostly corresponds with the indoor tournament season, with more outdoor events being held in the summer and indoors holding off for cooler weather. [I have not seen anything from Head about new releases for 2024.]

Up until 2019 or so, RacquetWorld was the best source of information about when a particular model was released. They appear to have abandoned the page with that info around the spring of 2020 and haven’t restarted it.
https://store.racquetworld.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=racquetratings

September 6, 2024, Gearbox released their GX1 series of racquets. (I picked up 2 of the 170T at full price on release day.)
https://gearboxsports.com/collections/gx1-series

September 16, 2024, E-Force released their Xcelerator series of racquets.
https://e-force.com/products-all/hi-performance-racquets/xcelerator

Somewhere around this time, the 2024 Prokennex Black Ace Pro line was released. (I do not recall seeing an official release post with a date.)
https://prokennex-racquetball.com/tag/racquets/

On October 1st, Formula Flow announced their Formula3 line of racquets that will be released on October 20, 2024.
https://formulaflow.com/collections/racquets


Will you be picking up a new racquet here in the last quarter of 2024? Which manufacturer has caught your eye? Let me know on Reddit, Facebook, X, or Threads.

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