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Customizing your tennis racquet
Three beautiful Head Radical Tours (so called Candycanes). One of my favourite racquets of all time. Anno 1998. Okay, so your racquet is not playing the way you want it to and this is what you do about...
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Head Radical Tours for sale
Selling or trading a pair of classics in great condition. Head Radical Tour MP, also called “The Candycane”. Made in Austria of the famous PT57-mould, heralded by many as the ultimate control racquet....
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Prince Textreme Tour 95
My new weapon of choice is the Prince Textreme Tour 95. I can’t believe I’ve changed racquets yet again, but something about this stick talked to me with its really nice “classic” specs, yet friendly...
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Montanes to Babolat
It seems like several players are moving from Prince to Babolat. Well, at least David Ferrer, Federico Delbonis and Albert Montanes who are all using Babolat at the start of the 2016 season. I spotted...
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Tennis racquets for sale
Hi fellow tennis lovers. I have lots of racquets that I’m not using. Let me know if you’re interested in one or two. I’m flexible around pricing so give me your offers. Would be interested in trading...
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What’s new from Wilson tennis?
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...
View ArticleTennis racquets endorsed by ATP pros
Found an excellent list of tennis racquets used by ATP pros at tennisthis but I would just like to add that a quite large percentage is not using the actual model found in the store, but a paint job of...
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New racquet for Alexander Zverev
I recently posted about Dominic Thiem getting a signature model made by Babolat and now Head posted above picture on their Instagram account with the caption: “Sascha and our design head can sure be...
View ArticleBorna Coric new racquet: Yonex Ezone DR 98
Up-and-coming player Borna Coric has recently changed his racquet from the Yonex Vcore Tour F (not sure if that was the racquet he actually used or a paint job) to a Yonex DR 98. The Yonex Ezone DR 98...
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Prince TeXtreme Tour 95 Review
So I’ve been playing with this racquet for a few months and I have to say it’s a pure joy to hit with. I thought it would make sense to write a little review about this modern yet classical players’...
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Del Potro wins with new paint job
Juan Martin Del Potro is back on clay and won his first match against the erratic but often spectacular Dustin Brown. For racquet fans however, the biggest news is probably that he’s finally been...
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Jack Sock New Babolat Racquet
It’s not really a new racquet, but Jack Sock has posted pics on his Instagram account of a new paint job (it’s not his actual racquet in the picture – he uses the Aero Storm, not the Pure Aero). It’s a...
View ArticleWhat is a pro stock tennis racquet?
A pro stock tennis racquet is basically the blank paper version (called a hairpin) of a retail tennis racquet. It can be based on the mold of an older racquet or a brand new one. Then pro racquet...
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Rafael Nadal’s Tennis Racquet
Now that the French Open is a upon us a lot of tennis fans will wonder – what racquet is 9-time champion Rafael Nadal swinging? But like I ‘ve written about a few times before, what you see on TV is...
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Nicolas Almagro’s Racquet
A lot of people are probably wondering what the hard-hitting Spaniard Nicolas Almagro is playing with. It’s not a Wilson, Head or Babolat so what can it be? Almagro has actually recently changed his...
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Roger Federer’s Racquet
It’s described by many as the holy grail in tennis, not because of its own magical properties, but because it’s swung by the wizard himself, Roger Federer. For many years Roger Federer played with the...
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Stan Wawrinka’s Racquet
Stan Wawrinka has always had the game to hit big, but in recent years he’s also shown he can get it together in big tournaments and that’s why he as won two grand slams: 2014 Australian Open and the...
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Andy Murray’s Racquet
Andy Murray has advertised the Head Radical series for many years, sort of as the successor of André Agassi. Little do most people know that he actually plays with a 20-year-old racquet in a different...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Racquet Companies
Dear Racquet Companies, People involved in tennis know about paint jobs. We know that the models used by Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka and many other pro players are not available to the...
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New racquet for Federer?
Wilson tennis posted this on their Instagram and Twitter account. It’s all black everything! What I guess it means is that Wilson will soon release a new paint job of Roger Federer’s signature...
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