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 wasn’t feeling it with his Wilson Ultra Tour (likely a pro stock H19) and went back to his Wilson Six One 95 painted as a Wilson Pro Staff 97. After a slump of losing 4-5 games in a row, he came back to win the …
Federer’s new racquet
Joey Hanf of the excellent blog Tennisnerds (not affiliated with this one! :)) wrote a good post about the first day at Roland Garros where he, among other things, said he was baffled that Wilson hasn’t come up with a paint job for Federer’s new racquet yet. I have wondered the same for quite some time. Maybe they haven’t come up with the design or maybe his racket is so similar to the Blade 98 or they can’t come up with a name yet, but they must be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars for every month Federer is playing with …
Wilson Tennis seems to head towards the Djokovic white (his Head Speed has this nice retro color) with their BLX series update and I’m not sure what to think of it. It The biggest change to this series is definitely the introduction of the Pro Staff Six.One 100 BLX, which is a big increase in head size from the previous Six.One 95 BLX (16×18 string pattern) and also quite a drop in weight. Â This should appeal to a big group of players who like the Wilson feel, but have felt a bit trapped by the head sizes. Looking at the …