If you didn't already know, Der_Echte is famous for liking heavier blades that weigh upwards of 100 grams.
He is also famous for taking blades that have a hollow handle and weigh 85 grams and adding 15-30 grams of weight to the handle to make it solid and handle heavy.
That is how he rolls.
And one thing that I can say for sure is that if you take two rackets, say, two Viscarias, and everything else is the same, but one is 10 grams heavier than the other--barring defects--the heavier one, 99.99% of the time will play better. It will have better feel. It will be more solid and have more pace and umph behind it. While the one that is 10 grams lighter will feel like a cheap imitation.
I have tested this theory. I have yet to find things to come out different than just stated.
A heavier blade of the same model will just about always feel and play better than a lighter one.
But what is your reason for wanting a lighter blade? If it is injury, it could make sense. Even though, often a little extra weight in the hand is more useful in that circumstance also.
Why do I say that. As a kid I played baseball. We would rotate pitchers because you can't pitch every day. The team had three other pitchers. I would pitch on the fourth day or if we had a day off, the fifth. When I pitched a full 9 innings with a hardball, the next two days my arm would be sore. But it would be a normal version of sore. And it would recover by the third day as long as I didn't throw too much or too hard in between.
Every so often, in my back yard we would play a game like baseball with 1, 2 or 3 players per team. We would pitch with a tennis ball as if it was a hardball. And every time I would pitch with that light azzed tennis ball, the next day it would feel like someone had take. A drill and drilled holes in my elbow and shoulder. It wasn't sore. Those joints had damage done. The reason? The lighter ball with the whipping action of the arm, that just isn't good for those joints.
This is similar to how it hurts more for a boxer to throw a punch and miss than to land a punch. And throwing and not meeting that extra weight and resistance can damage your shoulder and elbow joints.
So I am willing to bet that a 90-95 gram racket with heavy rubbers would be less likely to cause tennis elbow than a 75 gram racket with light or medium weight rubbers.
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