Sports racket which reduces variance on players performance

A sports racket comprising a frame rail which is bowed to form a generally elliptical playing head portion joined to elongated extensions including throat portions and shaft portions, said shaft and throat portions being spaced apart and joined only at the extremities of said shaft portions by a handgrip and interlaced transverse and longitudinal strings providing a resilient impact member throughout said head portion and the space between said throat and shaft portions of said frame, wherein the improvement comprises said sports racket as being characterized by a percussion center of said racket which is uniquely advanced toward the top end of the racket, by reason of the reduced mass in the throat portion of said racket and by a handgrip which is less than 40% of the overall racket length, wherein the most lateral of said longitudinal strings is spaced apart from said rail at a distance .gtoreq.4.0 centimeters at the maximum string bed width, wherein the most longitudinal of said transverse strings are spaced apart from said rail at a distance .gtoreq.5 cm at the maximum racket length, wherein the string tension in said transverse strings are approximately proportional to the mean length of said transverse strings, and the string tension in said longitudinal strings is approximately proportional to the mean length of said longitudinal strings.