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Good evening Talk Tennis! I know I am scraping towards the end of the time limit, but I decided to create a little video to go along with this review! Thank you again for the opportunity to be part of this play test. Due to time constraints, I had to cut a lot of stuff I wanted to include (even...

Grateful to be a part of this play test and I will have a review and specs of the frame received within a week. Today I have 3.5M Regionals matches and really thinking about using this racquet to put it through the ultimate test. I won my friendly scrims against my teammates with it as part of...

Correct, I yolo'd it to see what the range might be

Finally got my 98 Tour racquets in the mail. Here are the specs with plastic still on the grip, and the cardboard cutout removed #1 310.1g 31cm 293 sw #2 306.4g 31.5cm 296sw

Will do, I have the Briffidi, scale, and balancing board. I intend on speccing them to the highest SW of both for the sake of consistency between both frames.

I go back and forth between the Blade 98 v8 and TT100 290 (added lead) just ordered two of the Tour 98 hoping that it combines both into one super racquet for my game

Found myself back to the Prince Textreme Tour 290 with 10g in the butt.... Still going back and forth between this and the Blade V8s sweighted up to a 325 sw

Generally speaking, yes. A denser pattern (18x20) will break less quickly than an open pattern (16x19). anarosevoli saiid that the CX 400 Tour has a dense 16x19 pattern, meaning the center strings are closer to each other. So while it is a 16x19, the drill pattern is denser in the center than...

Had a session over the weekend and attempted to be less close to the ball. Obviously my timing was a bit off in general and shanked more trying to get used to it. Below is where I was able to be further away from the ball for a few shots. I need to keep working on that and then hitting the ball...

Thank you all for the helpful stuff. I’ll review and then try to practice this next time on the court

Haha fair point. I'm getting lessons for it. The coach looked at my forehand and had no real technical corrections which was disappointing, so I just asked him to focus on volleys until I can find someone else who can assist me there as I look at (you guys) and video footage to improve my...

I'm atrocious at doubles (volleys!) and the singles guys on my team are 3.5A (appeal down from 4.0), so I have to play the doubles spots.

Past two seasons I had a negative record in 3.5 play! I deserve to be where I belong :oops:

Here's a clip from last night's session and really want to smoothen out groundstrokes, especially the forehand which after looking at behind the back, Im like..swiping across my body instead of having my body go out in front. My elbow is very tucked in as well. Obviously I cansee how it looks...

Speedport Tour with the traditional grommets (String Inserts)!

You might not be wrong in your assumption. I forgot where in this podcast, but they mention that thicker strings actually better for spin*.

Just when I thought my Racquetholism ended. That paint job reminds me of my old high school stick, the Prince Speedport Tour. Sick paint job

My SW1 has been yielding results that match Tennis Warehouse's readings. Meaning, I have 3 frames that I bought from them that they measured and they are spot on with the SW1 (Blade 98, Pro Staff 100, Prince Ripstick) Where I do differ is stuff specced out from ****. I have 5 racquets modified...

Got some additional racquets specced out (unstrung) when they came in for a string job! Wilson K90 Unstrung: No OG, 340g, 31cm, 309SW Yonex VCore 95 (2021): OG, 307.1g, 30.9cm, 280SW Babolat Pure Drive (2021): OG, 304.4g, 284SW

https://www.wilson.com/en-us/tennis/rackets/blade-100-v8-tennis-racket While not a hard date, it says its coming Fall 2021

I have seen my Blade 98s lose a mm or so when I did Nat Gut / Poly with a small differential. Let's say it was 52/50. 18m x 16c, so it did shorten a tiny bit.

Picked up a 290g Textreme Tour, justttttttt in case that I switch to it as a main racquet. I liked it a lot after tail weighting it, but may have found it a tad too stiff. Didn't get a chance to experiment with different strings on it though.

Here's a few photos of some of the frames I popped this season. Several different kinds of setups. (my dampener flew into the bushes circled in the photo)

Hyper G Soft

I have 3 16x19 v8s, and one is 327W strung with 18g string (I'll measure unstrung SW once I pop the strings). So this one seems overspecced by quite a bit In usual Wilson Quality Control, my other 2 vary quite a bit. I forgot to measure the SW of one of them unstrung, but here's the data: V8...

Strung up four racquets today and I have the following specs for now (no HL/HH as I have no balance board, will edit them in by next week since I am getting one). Babolat Pure Drive 2021 strung with Ashaway Crossfire ZX (17g) - 320.5g / 313SW Wilson Blade V8 US Open strung with Hyper G Soft...

I got a V8 US Open and Chameleon and strung them up with Hyper G/Ghostwire (18g) and ALU Power (18g) respectively with a Wilson Pro OG. Here's some strung up weights + SW (using the Briffidi SW1) US Open -325.5g / 327 SW Chameleon - 322.8 / 315 SW I need to measure the balance but will need to...

I saw your posts in the HGS thread and I started doing HGS/GhostWire (18g) to get my arm used to polyester again. It's soft, has great spin and power potential. 18g is just too low of lifespan though, even for me as a 3.5er (5 hours or less). I might bump up to 17g if my arm is still feeling...

I use VS 1.30 and mix up the crosses (but nothing ever sharp), but PTPA/Luxilon Element are the common ones I would use (16L). But, on about a 10-15% occasion, I will pop my poly crosses first (at around the same time of 15ish hours). When looking at my racquet at an angle, I can see the poly...

I consistently break strings in the middle so I know it's not a shank. It's just my strange swingpath that leads it to sawing extremely fast. I switched to the Blade 98 16x19 and I have seen a noticeable change in string durability so my stroke with that 18x16 open string pattern was not...