
The Dunlop Tristorm Elite is a versatile, high-quality graphite squash racket specifically designed for beginner, intermediate, and recreational club players aiming to advance their skills.
Positioned below Dunlop's ultra-premium flagship ranges (like the CX or FX lines), the Tristorm Elite focuses on offering club-level players a robust, highly stable hitting platform that perfectly blends a traditional control geometry with modern, power-boosting features.
Core Performance Description
- The Classic Control Shape: Built with a traditional, closed-throat geometric shape featuring a bridge. This timeless frame architecture provides exceptional structural stability and torsional rigidity, minimizing frame twist to ensure that developing players get highly consistent and predictable directional control on their shots.
- A Massive, Forgiving Sweet Spot: To prevent a classic closed-throat design from feeling too demanding, Dunlop paired it with a maximum-sized 500 cm² head size and an open 16 X 19 string pattern. This expands the sweet spot considerably, meaning that if you catch the ball slightly off-center while scraping it out of the back corners, the racket will preserve your depth and reduce jarring feedback.
- Stability Meets Maneuverability: Carrying an unstrung frame weight of 140 grams, the Tristorm Elite has a bit more physical mass than elite pro frames. This extra weight acts as an excellent stabilizer, giving the racket great "plow-through" when blocking heavy shots from an opponent. Dunlop offsets this solid weight by giving it an extra head-light balance, concentrating mass near the grip so the frame still handles swiftly during high-speed volley exchanges on the T.
Key Technologies
- ACS (Advanced Control System): This is the core structural design element of the Tristorm series. The throat and shaft area are heavily reinforced with a specialized geometric layout that maximizes torsional stiffness. It completely stabilizes the racket head at the moment of impact for pinpoint accuracy.
- Power Grommets: Situated across the primary hitting section of the frame, these grommet holes are intentionally enlarged. This gives the strings greater freedom to move, stretch, and flex upon contact, creating a springy "trampoline effect" that injects extra velocity into your drives.
- 100% Graphite Construction: Moving away from heavy, clunky alloy or composite entry-level rackets, the Tristorm Elite is molded entirely from high-grade graphite, offering a clean, uniform, and responsive feel.
Summary: The Dunlop Tristorm Elite acts as a fantastic development tool on court. By combining a classic closed-throat control frame with an agile head-light balance, a large 500 cm² sweet spot, and Power Grommets, it gives rising players the exact tools they need to master clean ball placement while generating effortless baseline depth.
Specifications
- Series: Tristorm Series.
- Player Level: Beginner / Intermediate / Club.
- Frame Weight: 140g (Unstrung).
- Balance: Extra Head Light.
- Head Size: 500 cm² (77.5 sq. in.).
- String Pattern: 16 x 19 (Open / Dynamic).
- Frame Shape: Conventional / Classic Closed Throat with Bridge.
- Composition: 100% Graphite.
- Factory String: Dunlop Premium Synthetic Gut (S-Gut).
- Factory Grip: Dunlop Factory Performance Grip.
