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He posted to Instagram today testing an Aero and Blade.

Play up anyway? This is the dumbest thing I've seen someone cry about on here. You're just humble bragging about your sandbagging.

They make an extended length butt cap. I tried 3D printing one, but once it gets past half an inch extended, it wiggles around.

Why don't you just go play 4.5? Are you enjoying tennis at all going 27-1 with nine bagels?

My question had nothing to do with the Davis cup situation. I just hate fallacies like that.

Any time someone chooses to stay on a 19, and the next card is a 2, did they make the wrong decision?

On iPhone. When I click on equipment > strings > polyester, it sends me to women’s tennis tops. The multifilament link sends me to skirts lol.

Speaking of pure rush, I tried it again but with a different cross because I only had a half set left. Putting Kirschbaum evolution in the crosses was ok. It’s round and seems slick, but holy cow it’s so much stiffer than I remembered. And I only string at 40 pounds. Makes me think the crosses...

Sometimes I feel like people on here will just always love the Japan paint jobs, and always hate the U.S. ones. It's like the place vs. place Japan meme.

I love when internet people give some psychological breakdown on a pro athlete like you've been his therapist for years.

I agree with that review. I strung it at 39 pounds which I've been liking lately. Using a Prince Tour 100P. The string is great all around, with the power and spin as the standouts. It's nuts how my ball would so frequently drop right inside the baseline when I was thinking it'd sail 6 inches...

I put some OG Micro Sheep into a Prestige mid, and it's pretty much the worst feeling racket I've ever used. Like the absolute lest spin you can get on shots. Closed string pattern plus non-spin friendly strings.

It feels good. For a multi cross, it’s surprisingly crisp with less ball pocketing. Stiffer than cyclone similar spin and power. I’ll try a full bed next.

I liked being on the team and playing with 4.5's and 3.5's in practice. The matches were basically just 4.0 matches. It's really annoying to schedule though. Similar to mixed, when you have multiple groups of people scheduling is tough cause you need 2 3.5s, 2 4.0s, 2 4.5s. As opposed to just 6...

I cannot imagine a UTR 4 breaking poly strings before the die. I'm a UTR 6 and I never break poly, they always get stiff first.

Asking for a string to be playable (not stiffen up) until you break the cross, and also soft seems impossible? I think softer strings lose playability quicker. I use Volkl Cyclone with OG Micro sheep, and it's dead and stiff as hell around 8 hours of play.

I know nothing about stringing machines other than my own which has clamps that rotate. I’ve never understood what starting clamps are for.

Wow, so basically stringing the crosses the ways you'd do the mains starting at the middle. But a bit more complicated. Do you need starting clamps to do this? I cannot watch right now.

I'd be down to try the new O3 Tour since that's basically what racket I learned tennis on, but I don't ever see myself restringing one again.

I’d also like to know this. I’m comparing it to Cyclone which I feel dies too quickly.

What would be the most powerful poly option I could put into the crosses with Pure Rush mains 17g?

I just tried pure rush with syn gut crosses. Felt good and lots of spin. It’s tough to know the comfort of the string when it’s freezing cold outside. How powerful would you say pure rush is? It feels super similar to volkl Cyclone to me. Might try cyclone mains and pure rush crosses.

Probably not. It’s an old school frame. Best thing I can think of is Phantom 93 like you mentioned or just a Tour 95. Maybe the previous models with the thinner beam.

What do you guys string the ATS tour with? It feels too low powered to go full poly. Cyclone with a syn gut cross is awesome but dies and gets stiff pretty quickly.

The match rating can only go so high correct? If you beat a 4.0 and don't drop a game, It'd only go up to like 4.35. This is an unavoidable problem with rating systems as far as I can tell. People say "they're really not sand bagging, their UTR is only 7.2" but it's impossible to get above a...

I have never been convinced that power is not totally subjective. As long as a racket is predictable, I'd say it is all personal preference. I'd like to see a study on if a Pure Drive has the same precision as a Prestige.

Nice. Charts like this will always be nitpicked with someone saying "it's more complicated than just power vs control", but I think stuff like this is pretty useful for people who don't know a lot about rackets. I'm waiting for someone to make a 14 dimensional version with stiffness, spin...

This racket setup strikes me as someone who wants everyone to know they use a 460 swingweight racket with kevlar.

So I tend to check out and not look into rackets of any kind for a few years. But then I’ll check some out and demo a bunch and go google crazy. Lots of videos and lists I’ve seen have the Blade as a control frame in the same realm as the Prestige. I see comments saying anyone below 5.0 using...

The paint job looks better in these photos than TW makes them look. I need to try an oversized frame soon. Never have. Also it’s still strange the Phantoms are all 100+.