Hi Kailash,
1. Greg Raven's Site has many pro specs (including swingweight) mostly from 2006-2012 or thereabouts. There is also a page called "Grab bag of legacy specs" which has a few player digits dating back to 2001.
Sw 360 is about average. Notable digits are Soderling's sw of 392, Carlos Moya at sw 399, Taylor Dent at sw 400.7 Marion Bartoli at sw 394, Radwanska at sw 315, Pat Rafter at sw 355.
Link : http://www.hdtennis.com/grs/pro_racquet_specs.html
2. If you go digging through the basement of the TW Forum here you will find Jura's post in a dusty corner that has specs for all the male players in the French Open 2005. You'll find mass, balance, length, strings and tension, but unfortunately, no swingweights are noted.
Link : http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=48880
3. Jura has the Female Pro specs here, Sept 2005.
Link : http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=49034
-Jack
Actually, today's pros are using much lighter racquets than their predecessors. During the wood era, pros used wood racquets that weighed between 14 oz. to 17 oz. with swingweights between 400 to 500.That's awesome! Thank you Jack.
It is amazing and inspiring to see those numbers; pros are pros; fit, athletic and strong to wield those heavy racquets.
Hi Kailash,
1. Greg Raven's Site has many pro specs (including swingweight) mostly from 2006-2012 or thereabouts. There is also a page called "Grab bag of legacy specs" which has a few player digits dating back to 2001.
Sw 360 is about average. Notable digits are Soderling's sw of 392, Carlos Moya at sw 399, Taylor Dent at sw 400.7 Marion Bartoli at sw 394, Radwanska at sw 315, Pat Rafter at sw 355.
Link : http://www.hdtennis.com/grs/pro_racquet_specs.html
2. If you go digging through the basement of the TW Forum here you will find Jura's post in a dusty corner that has specs for all the male players in the French Open 2005. You'll find mass, balance, length, strings and tension, but unfortunately, no swingweights are noted.
Link : http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=48880
3. Jura has the Female Pro specs here, Sept 2005.
Link : http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=49034
-Jack
Actually, today's pros are using much lighter racquets than their predecessors. During the wood era, pros used wood racquets that weighed between 14 oz. to 17 oz. with swingweights between 400 to 500.
Actually, Jack Kramer's personal racquet was 17 oz. A member here has one of his personal custom Jack Kramer Autograph racquets:Don't know what to say! Just looked at Jack Kramers' racquet specs. Weight between 15 to 16 ounces, grip size 5 1/4", with a head size of 68 sq. inches
Maybe I will try to get one of those wooden racquets; just to see if I can hit few balls
The custom JK autograph was about 17 oz's. The standard Donnay Borg Pro was 13oz so the one that was made for Bjorn with the extra wood laminations on the throat lower hoop must have added atleast 1..2 ozs, maybe more like the Kramer ? I have one of the JK auto rackets made for Jack and it is approx 17 oz.
It is PT57Ahaving fondled and seen up close Robin Soderlings racket recently it is a thing of beauty, the handle is pretty special too, I was told it was 380g static and 32cm balance, looked like a PT57a to me...
delete........Is it only few top players use racquets with 360-370 g swing weight or most of the ATP players go north of 350? And what about WTA?
At recreational level, average swing weight seems to falls around 310 (+/- 25 g); with similar or bit more static weight.
I think the newer pros like nishikori,dimitrov,kyrgios,coric etc are using even light rackets with lower swingweight.
It makes me rethink a year ago and switch to a lighter racket..
I think the current trend is around 330-340 weight and 335 to 350 sw
Yepp almost there slightly below 330. If u add the weight of the string its roughly 345g only which is alot lesser than roger,novak,stan etc era.Isn't the stock ps97s like 310 grams unstrung and then Dimitrov adds 20 grams to the butt?
Yea its really surprising. Its like ppl are trying to tweak to this and that Pro Player but the newer pros are just basically using those racket we are using now with some minor tweak.I'm pretty sure Hyeon Chung is using a stock Dunlop Biomimetic 3.0, and he does quite well at return of serve..