Head Graphene 360 Extreme Pro Racket Review

The baseline is the Graphene 360 Extreme Pro’s bread and butter, and it does a wonderful job on the groundstrokes.

The speed and spin of this racket are potent and I’d love to be playing with it on clay. It gives you the kind of access to spin that makes playing on a clay court highly enjoyable.

I felt I had a great amount of control with the Graphene 360 Extreme Pro and was really able to work my points how I wanted them.

The large amount of spin I was generating opened up some big angles that opened up the court and step in to finish the point off with the down the line.

Off the backhand side, I felt I benefited greatly from the great stability that the 330 swingweight offers.

Sometimes I can struggle to generate power on this side and the Extreme Pro did a good job of negating this weakness.

On the forehand side the Graphene 360 Extreme Pro does come close to being a bit too spin oriented for me.

I was getting so much easy spin that it became a little bit difficult to flatten the ball out.

I naturally get a great flight path on the forehand side, it’s flattening the ball out that I find harder to do.

That’s one of the big advantages I find with my 18 x 20 Pure Strike, it makes life much easier when I’m stepping into the court and trying to flatten out the ball.

I didn’t feel I lost too much control with the Extreme Pro despite the amount of spin I got.

I probably sacrificed a few mph but the added spin made up for this and all in all, I was hitting some excellent shots with this racket.

The positives of this racket were mainly in the easy spin it offers and the ease with which you can play high level tennis.

With the Graphene 360 Extreme Pro you can almost sit back a bit and let the racket take some of the strain.

Negatives wise, the only thing I found from the back of the court was that it was a little bit hard to hit a flat ball. This is something I regularly suffer with, but the 16 x 19 string pattern did make this a little bit more difficult.

I have given the Head Graphene 360 Extreme Pro an 8.5 out of 10 from the back of the court.

I loved the older version of this racket when I had it and I still really enjoyed this newest version.

Having said that the Graphene 360 Extreme Pro is very much an aggressive baseliner’s racket, it’s not bad at the net at all.

The 330 swingweight makes it extremely solid when the balls coming quickly at you and this is the most important thing I look for when I’m at the net.

The Graphene 360 Extreme Pro is also extremely maneuverable, so it’s nice and easy to get into position quickly.

This comes in handy when you’re playing doubles and face a quick exchange at the net.  I didn’t play any doubles with the Extreme Pro, but I did have Lawrence smashing balls at me at the net and the Extreme held up well.

If anything, I would like just a little bit more control from the Extreme Pro at the net, but I’m sure that could be fixed with the right set up.

As I said, I used to string my Extreme pretty tightly, with a control oriented string. If I was to start using this racket, I would continue to do the same as it just adds a little bit more control and touch to this racket.

I’ve given the Graphene 360 Extreme Pro an 8 out of 10 at the net. It’s still a baseliner’s racket in my opinion, but it does well at the net nonetheless.

This is the kind of setup that I really enjoy on the serve. A lowish actual weight, but plenty of swingweight and some good maneuverability.

This helps to get the racket travelling with lots of speed and ensure all the energy you build up goes straight through the ball.

The Graphene 360 Extreme Pro continues to give a ton of spin potential on the serve (think Gasquet’s kick serve), but it is also very powerful when you’re looking to flatten out and hit a big serve down the T.

You’ve got to keep ripping through the ball with this racket, but when you do, you get good results.

I found the Graphene 360 Extreme Pro particularly helpful on the second serve where I was able to generate good spin adding control and precision to my serve.

I played a rare set with the Extreme Pro without a double fault, something I virtually never do!

The Head Graphene 360 Extreme Pro’s good performance on the serve gets it another 8 out of 10 from me. There was nothing negative to say about the Extreme when starting out the point.

An all round very good racket from Head. This racket can do a little bit of everything, but ideally, I think it is best suited to an aggressive baseliner.

The Graphene 360 Extreme Pro gives you excellent racket head speed and huge amounts of spin for a pro style racket.

For me personally, I really enjoyed the Graphene 360 Extreme Pro playtest, the only downside being that I found it a little bit hard to hit a flatter ball.

I would probably look to fix this by stringing this racket a bit tighter with a control oriented spin.

I think with that small fix, this racket would be a good fit for me and is certainly worth a try for any aggressive baseliner with some fairly advanced swings.

While some rackets can make being an aggressive baseliner seem like hard work, the Head Graphene 360 Extreme Pro is comfortable and makes your life easy.

Overall, I gave the Head Graphene 360 Extreme Pro an 8 out of 10. I think it has the potential to appeal to a wider variety of players and it does everything well.

It’s comfortable and easy to play with, which is always a bonus and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to players of all ages.