After a period where few “player” racquets saw the light of day, we’ve suddenly been fortunate to see the Wilson Ultra Tour and the Dunlop Srixon Revo CX 2.0 Tour released. Will other brands follow? Traditional player racquets are usually heavier, thin-beamed, flexible and low-powered. It’s all about control and comfort. Modern racquets on the other hand are stiffer and lighter to maximize swing speeds, spin and power. After quite a long trend of pretty much only modern tennis racquets being released, it’s really nice to see two high quality racquets such as the Wilson Ultra Tour (which I review …
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The most buzzed about racquets right now are the Wilson Ultra series of racquets out on August 15 (available for pre-order right now) and some reviews are already in. If you want to read more about the different Wilson Ultra racquets check out this post. The most exciting Wilson Ultra racquet for racquet nerds should be the Wilson Ultra Tour – a flexible, tour-inspired frame that needs some lead tape and leather grip to really shine. The racquet has now been reviewed by both Tennis Express and Tennis Warehouse and both gave the racquet positive reviews although none of the play-testers talked …
The hype around the new Wilson Ultra line is quite big among racquet fans, especially since it is rumoured Wilson will release the pro stock racquet H19 with the name Ultra Tour. Now the whole Wilson Ultra line-up is revealed. Wilson today published their new Ultra line-up online and it seems like the H19 – or a brother to it – will be available for purchase. This is big news for fans of flexible racquets and I’m sure the Wilson Ultra Tour will sell like hotcakes among tennis aficionados. Pre-order the Wilson Ultra racquets at Pro Direct Tennis or Tennis Express Wilson have …
The new Wilson Ultra series will be promoted by players such as Gael Monfils, Feliciano Lopez, and Borna Coric. What Grigor Dimitrov will promote is another story. Wilson has revealed some more pictures for their much hyped-up release of the new Wilson Ultra line of racquets. Most racquet fans and tennis nerds are keen to know the specs of the racquets and whether the Wilson Ultra Tour is really the famous H19 pro stock racquet that Gael Monfils (and other ATP professionals) has used for years. After all, they released Roger Federer’s racquet with pretty much (except the handle shape …
In time for US Open the racquet companies are preparing new product launches or updates to existing racquet lines such as Wilson Ultra CV, Babolat Pure Drive and Yonex E-zone. The Wilson Ultra has been the most buzzed-about line on tennis forums with speculations that the Wilson Ultra Tour might be the fabled pro stock racquet mould called H19 (Wilson’s copy of HEAD’s legendary PT57A). The Wilson Ultra line will be endorsed by players such as Gael Monfils (using a H19 since he switched from Prince) and Borna Coric (who previously played with Yonex). The H19 racquets are flexible, thin-beamed racquets that …
It’s soon time for Wilson to release the Countervail edition of their Wilson Ultra series (you know, the blue one) and speculations are afoot on the forums whether the Wilson Ultra Tour will be a H19. So what is a H19 and why am I writing this gibberish? The H19 is Wilson’s copy of the legendary Head Pro Tour 630 (280 in the US), called PT57A in pro stock racquet (what is a pro stock racquet? – Read here) terminology and has not been easily available to the racquet buying population for more than 20 years. Now the talk goes …