The ATP Tour version 2017 has kicked off in Doha, Brisbane and Chennai. First action I’ve seen is David Ferrer swinging his Babolat Pure Drive Plus against hothead Bernard Tomic using a Head Graphene XT Radical MP A (actually a HEAD TGT 260.5 pro stock model). Ferrer was steady while Tomic slightly less so and the Spaniard won 6-3 7-5. Both players wore pink tops (Ferrer wore a Lotto shirt and Tomic a Nike Winter Advantage shirt with some cool Nike Zoom Vapor 9.5 in Purple/Crimson) so the neon tennis trend that started last year is perhaps here to stay (for a while). Roger …
Dimitrov Pro Staff 97S
What professional players use and endorse are two different things. Grigor Dimitrov endorses the Wilson Pro Staff 97S, but uses a different racquet. What? Baby Federer. That’s what we used to call him, the stylish Grigor Dimitrov, with strokes that looked eerily similar to the great Swiss champ’s. But along the line and the years, something happened. His style didn’t change, but his results were “unspectacular” if you will. Brilliance mixed with mediocre. Seemed to get tight when closing out matches. There was the famous meltdown in Turkey in May this year where he broke a couple of racquets and …
Tennis product companies create new products in cycles and we can expect new batches of gear coming out ahead of each Grand Slam, especially when it comes to apparel but also paint jobs on current racquet models and sometimes entirely new racquet lines. This post deals with what’s been happening of late in the ever-expanding tennis gear category. I will create a post per brand to cover the most recent updates to their line of tennis gear and apparel. First off is Wilson. Wilson Wilson has a new line of racquets out with FST – Fast Speed Technology. A pretty …