A racket comprising: a shaft having a tip end and a rear end spaced from the tip end in a longitudinal direction of the racket; a handle joined to said rear end of the shaft; a frame having a tip end and a rear end spaced from the tip end in said longitudinal direction of the racket, the frame being joined at its rear end to the tip end of the shaft and having left and right sides spaced from one another in a width direction of the racket, the width direction being orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, the frame having a center which is spaced from said left and right sides in the width direction and from the tip and rear ends of the frame in the longitudinal direction, an upper half disposed between the center and the tip end of the frame, and a lower half disposed between the center and the rear end of the frame, the upper half and the lower half each including a plurality of horizontal strings extending in the width direction and a plurality of vertical strings extending in the longitudinal direction, the horizontal strings and the vertical strings together forming a net-like hitting surface, the frame having a first plurality of pairs of opposed string holes disposed at intervals along a circumferential direction of the frame in both the upper half and the lower half, each string hole penetrating the frame from an inner peripheral surface of the frame to an outer peripheral surface of the frame along a penetrating direction to allow a respective one of said strings (41, 42) to pass through the respective string hole, wherein said penetrating direction of each string hole allowing a respective one of the horizontal strings to pass through it and said width direction define a first angle (θ1) there between, which first angle (θ1) is smaller than a second angle (θ2) formed between said width direction and a normal direction which is normal to a tangent to said inner peripheral surface of the frame at a position provided with a respective one of said string holes allowing the horizontal strings to pass through them, characterized in that, in the upper half of the frame, the first angle (θ1) at each string hole of one or more pairs of opposed string holes allowing the horizontal strings extending in the upper half of the frame to pass through them is smaller than the second angle (θ2), and in the lower half of the frame, the penetrating direction of each string hole of all pairs of opposed string holes allowing the horizontal strings extending in the lower half of the frame to pass through them coincides with the normal direction. a shaft having a tip end and a rear end spaced from the tip end in a longitudinal direction of the racket; a handle joined to said rear end of the shaft; a frame having a tip end and a rear end spaced from the tip end in said longitudinal direction of the racket, the frame being joined at its rear end to the tip end of the shaft and having left and right sides spaced from one another in a width direction of the racket, the width direction being orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, the frame having a center which is spaced from said left and right sides in the width direction and from the tip and rear ends of the frame in the longitudinal direction, an upper half disposed between the center and the tip end of the frame, and a lower half disposed between the center and the rear end of the frame, the upper half and the lower half each including a plurality of horizontal strings extending in the width direction and a plurality of vertical strings extending in the longitudinal direction, the horizontal strings and the vertical strings together forming a net-like hitting surface, the frame having a first plurality of pairs of opposed string holes disposed at intervals along a circumferential direction of the frame in both the upper half and the lower half, each string hole penetrating the frame from an inner peripheral surface of the frame to an outer peripheral surface of the frame along a penetrating direction to allow a respective one of said strings (41, 42) to pass through the respective string hole, wherein said penetrating direction of each string hole allowing a respective one of the horizontal strings to pass through it and said width direction define a first angle (θ1) there between, which first angle (θ1) is smaller than a second angle (θ2) formed between said width direction and a normal direction which is normal to a tangent to said inner peripheral surface of the frame at a position provided with a respective one of said string holes allowing the horizontal strings to pass through them, characterized in that, in the upper half of the frame, the first angle (θ1) at each string hole of one or more pairs of opposed string holes allowing the horizontal strings extending in the upper half of the frame to pass through them is smaller than the second angle (θ2), and in the lower half of the frame, the penetrating direction of each string hole of all pairs of opposed string holes allowing the horizontal strings extending in the lower half of the frame to pass through them coincides with the normal direction.