Senston S300 Full-Carbon Badminton Set, 2 Rackets

The Senston S300 takes second place in our best badminton rackets guide. At £39.99 the listing sells a set rather than a single racket — two S-300 rackets, a carry bag, one tube of shuttlecocks and two overgrips, which works out at about £20 a racket — supplied strung at roughly 22 lb. It carries a 4.6 out of 5 rating from 661 ratings. The star breakdown shown on the same listing adds up to 100: 76 five-star, 15 four-star and three each for three, two and one. Those two counts are not the same thing.

The number worth checking on this listing is the weight. The specification table's Item Weight reads 85 g, and the second bullet quotes 85 g as well — but as the unstrung weight of one racket. A set holding two rackets, a bag, a tube of shuttles and two grips will not weigh 85 g, so that field describes a single racket without strings, not what arrives in the box. The material fields agree with each other: frame and shaft are both listed as carbon fibre, matching the 'full-carbon-fibre' wording of the bullets, with a one-piece design and a built-in T-joint. The listing tags the racket at Beginner level with a medium grip, and one of the reviews below comes from an experienced player who still found it good. Everything on this page is taken from the Amazon listing as written; we have not tested these rackets ourselves.