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Questions about pro stock racquets
I often get e-mails about racquets and strings and other various tennis things. I thought I’d share a recent one about pro stock racquets. “Recently I’m very interested in the topic of professional racquets. Unfortunately, the information I get is more like speculation and rumours. Here are my questions:” 1) Do all racquets – retail, professional […]
Prince Textreme 2 Racquets with Twaron
As many of you who read this tennis blog know, I’ve been very impressed by the Prince Textreme line of racquets. Especially the Tour 95 and the 100P versions. Now it’s time for Prince to launch Textreme 2 Beast racquets with Twaron. Read my Prince Textreme Tour 95 review here. These Prince Textreme 2 Beast […]
How Secret Should Pro Racquet Specs Be?
Racquet companies and tennis pro’s go to great lengths not to reveal their true racquet specifications, but is it really such a vital secret to keep? Since player specs are so personal what would it matter to other pro players? You who have been following this blog has for sure seen the post “Tennis Racquets […]
Honeymoon period with the Yonex VCORE 95D?
I’ve recently started hitting with the Yonex VCORE 95D, a racquet I’ve actually never tried before and so far, I’m loving this stick! Is it just due to the racquet honeymoon period or is it really that good? After all, Stan Wawrinka is playing with it… But as I’ve said before, you shouldn’t play with […]
Do professional players change racquets?
It sounds like a stupid question, but it’s still interesting to discuss how often professional players are trying out new racquets. I came to think of it when I saw Andrey Rublev switch racquets mid-match during the NextGen Finals in Milan! You rarely see players on this level switching racquets during the match, but Rublev […]
The Journey Continues – the Perfect Racquet
One moment you feel like you’ve found the one – that special racquet that you want to stock up on and treasure forever. Then it suddenly “fails you” and a new one comes around… As my loyal readers know I play-test and hit a lot of racquets in a year. This is kind of counter-productive […]
Dominic Thiem testing new strings
I got a question about Dominic Thiem playing with a new string in Erste Bank Open in Vienna. Instead of his usual Babolat RPM Blast in the crosses, he’s trying RPM Blast Rough Yellow. Dominic Thiem hasn’t had the kind of season a lot of fans expected him to with “only” one title (in Rio […]
HEAD Graphene Touch Radical Racquets
The specs are out for the HEAD Graphene Touch Radical line of racquets, including the HEAD Grapene Touch Radical Pro, MP and S. I previously wrote about the HEAD Graphene Touch Radical racquets here and reviewed the HEAD Graphene Touch Extreme MP here and I have mentioned that I’ve been slightly underwhelmed by the whole Graphene […]
HEAD PT57A vs Wilson H19
Racquet junkies all over the world are raving about the experience of playing with a HEAD PT57A or Wilson H19, pro stock versions resembling the legendary HEAD Pro Tour 630. I’ve been testing the racquets side to side and here are my personal opinions about these two great frames. You can read more about the […]
Do I need a heavy racquet to hit hard?
Yesterday I had a hitting session with promising young player here in Stockholm. I was playing with my 350+ gram LM Radical Tour and he was using the low-powered 335 gram Prince Textreme Tour 95. Still he was hitting harder than me… A lot of professional players use really heavy racquets with high swing weights, […]
