A good story: opponent switches frames 4 times

[NLBwell]

Originally Posted by OrangePower

Hey, what if you're a serve and volleyer and you use a different racquet for service games vs return games?

One can argue that one racquet could be optimal for serving and making volleys, and another more suited to returning and baseline play. Different racquets for different shots, no?

There are a few players around who do that. Dennis Ralston used to do it in the pros, but I think the main difference was the strings.

[BruceG]

Originally Posted by floridatennisdude

It takes extra skill to be able to adapt your swings to a different weight of racquet on the fly.

The only people I've ever seen change to different frames during matches are usually getting a beat down and they're looking for something to blame.

When I was in Australia couple months back I got to watch a pretty big deal local tournament. In the Open division there were players who had ATP/WTA points and some who used to have them. Tomic had even been runner-up in the men's event a few years ago, Scott Draper, Pat Rafter and Sam Stosur had all played it as juniors (and all had won events). So, really good standard at the Open level.

In the Open Mixed doubles, one of the guys was swapping from a Solinco Pro 10 when he served to an IG Prestige when he was returning. And, though common sense would say that it was the IG Prestige MP, it sure looked like the Mid that he was swapping to on returns. He and his partner won the match in 3 sets.

I also got to hit with one of the TW forum members while I was there and I noticed he changed racquets all the time. But he said he does it because he's on a constant search for something that feels like his old Prestige Pro so he keeps rotating through different racquets with different strings and tensions.

[floridatennisdude]

^^^your 3rd paragraph is the type of player I see doing this. Trying to find a frame? He needs to find his swing.

[Lefty78]

Krickstein once won a match at Wimbledon using three different racquets

[jonnythan]

I carry two racquets in my bag - a BLX Pro Open and a 6.1 95. I usually use the Pro Open, but if I'm playing with a fairly hard hitter I'll often swap to the 95. The idea is that with the 95 I can control the ball better and don't need as much power from the racquet when the ball is coming at me fast.

[TennisCJC]

I think it is stupid to switch frames 4 times in a tournament match. OK, if you are out just goofing off or demo-ing different frames. But, I think you should decide before the tourney what works best for you and then "you gotta dance with what you brought".