What's up everyone. Been a LONG time. Glad to see many of you are still active.
Mikeler, everyone is great. Thanks for asking. Hope all is well with you.
Great to see you back as well. Thank you for the years of insight and help! Especially all of the questions I've asked through email, ha!
I wasn't able to get to the stringing tent, but I did get a lot of pictures.
I will throw some up when I get home and can use my computer and phone at the same time. Some notes as of right now:
- CiCi Bellis plays with two dampeners (worm/Wilson fireball)
- Haase's MID
- Haase wearing Barricade Club
- Glossy paint jobs - M. Zverev, Cornet...
- Fognini was the only PD user with new paint
- M. Zverev w/ "pro" painted on throat, but 16 mains
- Dolgopolov w/ 16 crosses
- Vesnina possibly Origin crosses
- Wozniacki possibly RPM Dual mains (could be lighting)
- Vesnina and Woz using same racquet for full match
- Ferrer w/ Steam and Babolat stencil
- Paes w/ a Speed and what looks like Hyper G (no close ups)
- Melo, Bopanna, and Mannarino w/ APD paint
- Herbert looked to be playing with a Poly Tour Spin G/NG hybrid
- Mike Bryan w/ Ultra CV (did not look like the Tour model)
- Bob Bryan with Signature Prince Model
I had a brief conversation with Bob after their win today to see if he would be switching to Wilson as well and his words were, "hmm... probably, once I get a few days off here." I inferred that as he is going to give new sticks a try after the Open.
Bob also told me about Mike's Ultras. He said THEY'RE NOT HIS! He tried someone's out and currently only has two in his bag. Bob said they were not even the right length of 27.25 inches (too short).
