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 …
Roger Federer has ditched his old RF97 Autograph for something larger in time for Brisbane. New season starts tomorrow!
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 …
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 …
