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Wilson Six One 95S

Magic Made in Austria – the PT57A

by Jonas Eriksson October 15, 2017

written by Jonas Eriksson

There is lot of talk on tennis forums and among racquetholics and tennis nerds that the “holy grail” of racquets is the Head Pro Tour 630, known as PT57A in pro stock lingo. Is it really magic? As I wrote in a previous post, I recently acquired a PT57A XL in a iPrestige MP paint job and it’s the first HEAD Pro Tour 630 I’m playing in extended form. This particular racquet is from a now-retired grand slam finalist and has a molded handle (L4) and weighs 358 grams strung with a balance of 32 cm. Needless to say, this …

October 15, 2017 5 comments

Tennis Racquets

What Happened to Spin Patterns?

by Jonas Eriksson May 1, 2017

written by Jonas Eriksson

A couple of years ago the trend was for tennis racquet companies to produce very open spin-friendly string patterns, so called spin “patterns”. What happened to them? The Wilson Steam 99S was one of the most popular racquets of the bunch and it took it as a far as it goes really with its 15×16 string pattern producing a massive spin on the ball but also breaking strings at a faster rate than ever before. This led to thicker gauge strings like Luxilon 4G S in (1.41) to be able to handle the wear and tear. What this leads to is …

May 1, 2017 7 comments