To improve the power and control of a racket.

This sporting racket 1 includes a handle 4 and a frame 5 and the frame includes a head portion 6, an intermediate portion 7, a throat element 8 and a shank element 9. Further, the racket includes a string system consisting of horizontal string segments 11 and vertical string segments 12. In this string system, the plural vertical string segments 12 are admitted through an opening 21 of the throat element 8 into the opening 21, are fixed by the shank element 9 and at least two vertical string segments of one each on both sides of the axis of ordinate are fixed by the shank element 9. There is no structural part of the frame 5 between the string segments 12 and an outer space. The frame 5 enclosing the string network is substantially not continuous.