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String received (Reflex or Velocity): Velocity MLT 16 Tension(s) used for playtest: 56 Mains, 53 Crosses Regular string set up: Mostly play with Head Intellitour 17, but also have a Multi, Ploy hybrid in my bag. Racquet brand and model used for test: Tecnifibre 325 V02 Max Power of test string...

Thanks for the reply Those are the ones I was looking at online, the Douglas and Shelby ones, various models. Do you have experience with different ones, know if any particular one would be more suited to putting up and down every day? I assume the cheaper one they have is just that, but one...

I have a unique question but does anyone have experience with tennis net cranks (or winch or reel assembly, whatever terminology you prefer)? I play at a neighborhood single clay court that is private but unsecured so the only real security we use is that we put the net up and down and have...

Crossfire ZX Tour (MonoGut 1.27/MonoGut ZX 1.27) Hybrid Received: Crossfire ZX Tour (MonoGut 1.27/MonoGut ZX 1.27) Tension(s) used for playtest: 56 mains/54 crosses. I will say that MonoGut ZX was a bit of an odd string. At first pull it felt stiff, compared to multi crosses but it stretched...

Corners So, Corners, you play Hi-tech bare and find it tacky enough? I find the newer grips on the Tecnifibres bigger than the original V02s AND find Gamma Supreme overgrip is not as tacky as it used to be, so thought it might solve both my problems. Rather than constantly change overgrip...

Is this right? "1) Regardless of score, if R. NADAL defeats T. BERDYCH and D. FERRER defeats S. WAWRINKA, then R. NADAL wins the group and T. BERDYCH qualifies 2nd." I'm sure I'm missing something, but how is this so, that the scores don't matter? If this happens, all three (except Nadal)...

Thanks! Thanks for the link!

stream They don't have a stream either. I don't have it on TV. Thanks anyway.

stream Anyone have a stream. Not even the ATP has a stream in the US apparently. Thanks!

You may want to try . . . If you like RIP 17 and wish it was thicker, and use a different cross anyway, you might want to try Head Intellitour. The main is a similar if not the same string, and the 17 is 1.23, not quite the 1.25 but closer. It should be cheaper than the RIP 17, NXT combo too...

Rare maybe, but not nonexistent My parents had only the trapezoid, four wingnut kind of press, most everyone did, but I had a metal one similar to the Zephr press, a big X, circa 1980. Can't remember one before that one, and within a few years no one bought them anymore. Never seen an...

That's hilarious Yes, the made in England Dunlops couldn't compete pricewise with a Wilson department store wood, hence my Connors racquet. I skipped the aluminum/steel revolution (or perhaps brief coup is more accurate) and went from the crap wood to the Pro Kennex Golden Ace open throat...

Funny Coincidence This thread happened to be at the top, on the front page, today, when yesterday I bought a Maxply Fort with a Zephyr press for 2 bucks at a thrift store about 30 years after I wanted one as a little kid (McEnroe Fan) but my parents got me a cheap Connors KMart racquet instead...

I feel your pain I don't know if this should make you feel better (yours are closer than mine were) or worse (Tecnifibre won't care about your dilemma), but when they came out, having used several of the previous two generations of racquets, I tried the 320 V02 Max and even though it was...

I've had them question it a few times . . . But I just point out that I HAVE my own boxes but that if I use them the dimensions are slightly bigger and the USPS, in their infinite wisdom, will charge me 25-30 instead of 9-12 to send them because of the measurements, despite the package weighing...