No more powerpads for Fed?

[samster]

No more powerpads for Fed?

http://i47.tinypic.com/k4tv1d.jpg

[AM95]

...thats not his racket....

look at the grip, its leather, fed has a white one.

[m1stuhxsp4rk5]

maybe hes trying new set ups heres a pic with powerpads
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/getty/cc/fullj.c30e991d1170de8ef2d64fc247994579/c30e991d1170de8ef2d64fc247994579-getty-tennis-open-aus.jpg

[Fed Kennedy]

Thats a prop. This replay is brought to you by blx etc. etc.

[m1stuhxsp4rk5]

...thats not his racket....

look at the grip, its leather, fed has a white one.

fed uses a white overgrip. maybe he took it off

[AM95]

fed uses a white overgrip. maybe he took it off

let me bet you that is not his racket.

i doubt hes trying a new setup.

[Cup8489]

it's a gigantic prop racket guys...they also showed a pic with an impossibly large ball..

[cesarmo03]

sorry, what is powerpads?

[Tina]

sorry, what is powerpads?

same question here as well. Is that a grip?

[Bashi]

the things on the holes outside the throat

[strungup]

Small leather pieces which help eliminate sharp radius for stringing.

Yep its a prop as they showed that same racquet in the Rafa Ivo match.

[jelle v]

Small leather pieces which help eliminate sharp radius for stringing.

Yep its a prop as they showed that same racquet in the Rafa Ivo match.

Indeed.. They showed this picture in several matches.. It's not Federer's racket :)

[Jonnyf]

Indeed.. They showed this picture in several matches.. It's not Federer's racket :)


Exactly, It's a prop left there that shows up everytime they use a certain camera angle or 2. Sometimes there's an AO tennis ball under the strings.

[skyzoo]

Exactly, It's a prop left there that shows up everytime they use a certain camera angle or 2. Sometimes there's an AO tennis ball under the strings.
it's a nice little advertisment that Wilson paid for...

[Aces09]

that's not a fed racquet, it's just a blx90 they put in front of the camera to promote Wilsons BLX line. They're a big sponsor in the Australian Open.

[Dave M]

They seem to cut to them here when eurosport goto an ad break.Model changes depending who plays though i've noticed.

[DennisK]

The funny thing is that during one of the mens matches, they cut to the 'prop shot' too soon and you could see a phantom hand still in the shot placing an AO ball next to the racket.

[Ilove10nis]

I think they just put the wilson blx racquet to advertise and make it look nice and artcy on tv. I remembered couple day ago they did the same thing!

[SempreSami]

Part of me thinks this is a thing with sports broadcasting down under, whenever I watch cricket on a Nine broadcast they tend to show a view from the boundary looking across the playing field with something like a cricket ball in the foreground.