Do any pros with 1HBH use a 18x20 String Pattern?

nkjwlf

Rookie
Do any pros with a one handed backhand play with a tight string pattern say 18x20. Off the top of my head it seems they all have open pattern. Anyone have any thoughts or comments as to why this is and if there are any pros with a tight string pattern? Thanks.
 

nkjwlf

Rookie
So other than Kuerten the majority of top 15 players with 1hbh have used open patterns. Thoughts as to why this is?
 
Haas has switched to 16x19

Wawrinka used to use 18x20. So did Dimitrov.

Haas is actually back to an 18x20 as of a few days ago when he lost to Youzhny at the China Open in Beijing (although I think he outplayed Youzhny, just had some calls go against him and lost a couple key points). Here are some pictures I took. Pretty easy to see it's a PT57a 18x20 in IG paint.

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FYI, if you can't read it, the pro stock code in the throat of his racket is "C091101"
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Gaz77

New User
Hey Marcus 2137, how do you know this is a PT57a, i.e. what features makes it obvious this is that particular racket ?
 

hrstrat57

Hall of Fame
Haas is actually back to an 18x20 as of a few days ago when he lost to Youzhny at the China Open in Beijing (although I think he outplayed Youzhny, just had some calls go against him and lost a couple key points). Here are some pictures I took. Pretty easy to see it's a PT57a 18x20 in IG paint.

i-HkhJV37-L.jpg

FYI, if you can't read it, the pro stock code in the throat of his racket is "C091101"
i-TJ7qfZV-L.jpg


i-Lx9JCm2-L.jpg


i-sMkFq56-L.jpg

Oh man I'd like to get my hands on a free pair of those frames!!!
 

NLBwell

Legend
Isn't Gasquet's Instinct an 18 main?

Just looked at a picture in another thread and it is 16 mains.
 
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jazar

Professional
Carlos Berlocq, the Bryan brothers, Max Mirnyi, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Filippo Volandri.
 

0d1n

Hall of Fame
Actually...most of them. Many of them due to the fact that they either currently use, or previously used Prestiges.
A couple that changed to 16x19 recently have already been mentioned (Dimitrov by changing racquets, and Wawrinka by changing the pattern...and then the racquet all together. Wonder if the two changes were actually connected...i.e. if he knew he was going to yonex and changed his head racquet to get closer to what he knew he was going to use).
 
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