The racquet has been talked about for a while and now it’s finally revealed – the Babolat Pure Drive 2017-2018 edition – endorsed by Fabio Fognini, Mikael Ymer and Gabi Muguruza. When looking at the specs for the new Babolat Pure Drive, it doesn’t look much different to the version it replaces. It includes something called Cortex Pure Feel and the marketing says: “The new Pure Drive: pure power, pure …
Now that we have officially started the countdown to US Open (Aug 28-Sep 10), let’s look at the hottest tennis racquets right now and what’s going on in the industry. We’ll take it big supplier by big supplier. BABOLAT French tennis company Babolat’s tennis racquet blockbuster has always been the Babolat Pure Drive (1994). There have been many iterations and technologies in the Pure Drives over the years and it …
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 …
