I’ve recently switched my main racquet from my Yonex Ai 98 (Yonex DR 98 is just as good) to the more powerful Babolat Pure Strike (Project One 7) and I’m in the process of customizing it. I’ve played with the Babolat Pure Strike in stock form for a few week and it is the first racquet that I’ve actually enjoying “raw” and I didn’t even think about adding lead tape to it for a while but now that I’m playing more frequently I’ve started noticing the vibrations you get when you don’t hit the ball in the sweet spot and …
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customising a tennis racquet
For us tennis nerds there is a period we need to beware of and that’s the racquet honeymoon. Those first weeks when we believe we’ve finally found the one… This might lead us into buying an extra racquet and vowing to play this racquet until the end of time because no other racquet has ever made us feel this good about ourselves and our tennis games. But just wait a few weeks and you’ll have an off session and you might start finding some faults in the racquet and how it affects your game. Suddenly you’re thinking, “how naive I …