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.
