aimr75
Hall of Fame
how much did u pay for it
here are the sale prices for each racquet auctioned:
Jelena Dokic US $1,891.99
Kim Clijsters US $2,126.00
Novak Djokovic US $3,000.00
Rafael Nadal US $7,100.00
Roger Federer US $25,000.00
how much did u pay for it
I truly wish you get the real Nadal's racquet and not any APDC with Nadal's signature on it.
I don't understand this "painted black" thing on the duralast. Wouldn't the paint get rubbed off during play? And since it's a ploy, paint/stencil wouldn't stick on very well anyway.
As I have said in my original post, I wanted an actual Fed BLX6.1, since I already have one of Rog's K6.1. And if I had won, and it turned out that his new BLX was actually a K6.1 PJ (or even an Ncode PJ), so be it. I would still have the racquet that Fed won the 2010 AO so majestically with, and I would have done the TW forum the service of actually uncovering the secrets behind Fed's sticks.
Damn it's a shame you didn't get fed's though. we woulda had the mystery finally solved!
Heyy could you please please pleaseeeeeeee post some pics / Stats of the Racquet?
Many Thanks
Fellow Federer Fan
I dont mean to kill any hopes but I'm pretty sure they just send you stock racquets with their sigs on them. I mean you can tell when a racquet is used by the chips and scuffs it has even for just about an hour playing time. If they sent you a real one, babolat would be screwed for their entire future and you would become one of the richest people on TT... But let's hope its fully legit!
here are the sale prices for each racquet auctioned:
Jelena Dokic US $1,891.99
Kim Clijsters US $2,126.00
Novak Djokovic US $3,000.00
Rafael Nadal US $7,100.00
Roger Federer US $25,000.00
The winner's curse is a phenomenon akin to a Pyrrhic victory that occurs in common value auctions with incomplete information. In short, the winner's curse says that in such an auction, the winner will tend to overpay.
(and this is directed in particular at sureshs, who can go **** himself/itself).
You are my new hero...
BTW...thanks in advance for sharing the pictures of the purchase. The only thing stopping me from bidding is money.
Again, the vast majority of us really appreciate the "inside" stuff that a number of posters are privy to. Please continue to ignore the assclowns(ureshs)....
if i had the money... i would buy Federer... have him play at my house...at my will... keep him in a glass jar...
(i think ive said too much)
^^^ Rest a long stick between your thumb and index finger on both hands. Slowly move your hands towards the center of the stick and notice that the stick remains evenly balanced. As your left hand moves closer to the center of gravity, more weight is placed on that hand making it easier for the right hand, to slide and vice versa. Your hands trade off balancing the stick until both hands meet at the center of gravity, where both hands support equal weight.
(http://exs.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/center-of-gravity/)
Please post the specs and don't run away if someone asks for the balance. You can just use the side of a table or just your hands.
Fabfed,
I look forward to pics of the Nadal frame. By the way, how's the Federer K90 holding up? Does the white overgrip turn orange because of the Wilson leather grip (annoying thing about the Wilson leather)?
Hey samster, great to hear from you again. Unfortunately, it did it has bled onto the overgrip and has turned even more orange since I posted the pics about a year ago.
On a brighter note, I've been told the nadal racquet has been shipped and I should get it next week. I will also post latest pics this weekend of the Fed K90, and some other retail sticks.
Use your brains guys. A guy who can spend 8K or 20K (excuse me 19K) on a racquet in this economy is either a total nut or a multi-millionaire. Either case he is: 1. not going to post here 2. not care what people think about it.
If you think someone paid 8K for a racquet just like that, and cares deeply about being believed and appreciated by an anonymous Internet crowd of mostly middle-class posters, you are sadly wrong.
Hey samster, great to hear from you again. Unfortunately, it did it has bled onto the overgrip and has turned even more orange since I posted the pics about a year ago.
On a brighter note, I've been told the nadal racquet has been shipped and I should get it next week. I will also post latest pics this weekend of the Fed K90, and some other retail sticks.
I am really not that interested in this thread. The only reason I posted was because YOU picked on me in your FIRST post based on a previous thread where all I did was ask you for specs which you did not provide (and asked for more details about how you got it). You of course have every right not to say anything and take the 5th amendment. But you locked me in into an imaginary hostility between us and started a fight again. Go back and read your OP and honestly ask yourself: wasn't it just to continue some imaginary fight that no one had so you can get some kicks? Unfortunately, I took the bait and got carried away. I will not do so in the future, so please excuse any misunderstanding.
and for everybodys info the match winning kfactor rog used in the 2007 winbledon final was sold on the bay for $100000! so $25000 aint bad.
^^^ And all this after I apologized.
I think your very first post showed you are not about the racquet, but to go after some imaginary enemies.
wow. 100 grand. good lord. Guess it shows the difference between a racket Federer used in pratice and a racket he used to win a slam final. But on the other hand, they could very well be the same racket. I mean, Wilson give him like 20 rackets at the beginning of the year, and he started using them in his practises and etc, and then carry on into the tournaments. Am I right or wrong?
Do you think you will get a racquet already customized for him or something that he just happens to have? Reports here suggest that his SW is 352 or so and he adds a lot of lead on the upper hoop. That is probably all the customization he does, and I don't know who does it for him. Would he have put up such a frame for auction?
I honestly don't know. It's entirely possible since Fed gives his customised racquets for charity auctions. However, I've been warned that it could well be a normal signed retail racquet in Nadal's case, since it could reveal that Nadal doesn't use cortex if he auctions off his actual frames, and that might put customers off if it is confirmed. But personally, I think it will be one of his actual frames, since tennis australia says it was used during the recent AO. We will find out soon enough. I'm hoping to receive it in a few days. I will post a few preliminary pics of it as soon as I receive it. I don't know much about balance and swing weight, but we will try to establish it with the suggestions of you guys, as long as it doesn't harm the racquet in any way.
That would really suck if they sold you a fake racquet, one that he does not acutally use in matches. Is there any way to prove it either way?
Balance is very easy as mentioned earlier. SW is a little more tricky.
First you have to get the weight of the racquet by a scale. If you don't have one, that is the end of the story.
Then all you need to do is to suspend the racquet from a nail (like you would "hang" a racquet). Then oscillate it like a pendulum and get the time period of one complete to and fro oscillation by taking the total time for 10 oscillations and dividing by 10. Keep the oscillation in a single plane as much as possible, and the amplitude quite small from the center position.
Based on the length of the racquet (27" inches presumably), the static weight, and this time period, we can first find the moment of inertia about the top of the frame using the physical pendulum formula, and then use parallel-axis theorem to adjust it to 4 inches above the butt.