About RaqMatch
RaqMatch turns answers about how you play into three specific racquets, each with a written justification. This page explains how that works — and the rules we hold ourselves to so the result can be trusted.
What it is
A bilingual site, built in Brazil, for players choosing a racquet without a coach or a trusted shop nearby. The catalog holds 272 racquets from 8 brands, with real factory specifications: head size, weight, balance, stiffness (RA), swingweight and string pattern. The core product is the quiz: you describe your game — level, style, what's missing, whether your arm complains — and get three racquets with the reasoning behind each.
How the match is calculated
In two stages. First, a deterministic rules filter narrows the catalog to candidates compatible with your answers — fixed thresholds over the specs, the same ones published in our guides. Then an evaluation model (Jev, by TypeSafe AI) reads your answers — including the free-text ones, in your own words — and rates, for each candidate, how well it fits your game along separate dimensions: power, control, arm comfort, style and what you wrote. The ratings are combined server-side with weights that follow from your answers, the top three are chosen, and each justification is composed from the specs and the rules — not AI-generated text, so it never contradicts the numbers on the card. If the model is unavailable, the filter's own order decides.
Where the data comes from
Specifications come from the Tennis Warehouse catalog, which publishes measurements most retailers don't — RA stiffness, swingweight and balance. We use TW as a spec database, not as a store. Brazilian prices come from verified Mercado Livre listings, each showing the date it was last checked. Prices unverified for more than seven days stop being displayed. Weight is shown in each market's convention, converted and marked with ≈ when derived — the method is explained in the weight guide.
What the model never sees
Price and commission never enter the context of the model that recommends. The quiz never asks about budget. The affiliate-link layer is applied to pages after the three picks already exist — which means the recommendation cannot follow the payout.
How we write about racquets
All editorial text on this site — guides and per-racquet write-ups — is derived from catalog specifications and each racquet's position on the collection's ruler. We don't run playtests, we have no reviewer network, and we don't invent reviews: where a text is spec-derived analysis, the page says so. If you find a spec error or a claim that doesn't hold up, the contact page exists exactly for that.
Monetisation and independence
The site is funded two declared ways: affiliate links to stores (with a footer disclosure on every page when active) and ads. Two rules never change: the quiz never carries an ad, and neither funding path alters which racquets get recommended — by the architecture described above, not by promise.
Reach us
Questions, spec corrections or suggestions: contact page.