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Just waiting for the tin foil hat brigade to see this and start their counter attack...

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Spin, may I ask what your balance point preference is for your racquets? I ask as I'm curious given I was in as similar situation to you (previously played with a modified Pro Staff 95, demoed a number of racquets, including a couple of the racquets on your list, and ended up opting for a 97s -...

If you don't want to remove the foam filling (which might be a good idea given that this is your first attempt at modifying), you're better off just putting the tack in the actual trapdoor of the buttcap itself. That said you'll find it pretty hard to add 15g of tack in the trapdoor so a better...

With his racquet head speed and extreme top spin game how do you know he wouldn't just break a thinner gauge far too quickly i.e. before each racquet change? Either way, it's hard to say with any certaintly that durability has nothing to do with it.

Probably for durability purposes

@teekaywhy - I thought it was a pretty good set up. Very comfortable and plush with good power. It also offered good access to spin and control was suprisingly decent too. Only issue, as I mentioned, was string durability though the cold and sometimes damp weather conditions here in the UK are...

@esgee48 @mainandcrosses - both theories are entirely plausible. Will be interesting to see what @Babolat Official come back with...

Thanks - that would be helpful.

What's the elasticity/snap back of Glide like? If it offers good elasticity and has decent power and comfort, it sounds like it could be a perfect main string to hybrid with a slick round poly...

So far, my string jobs haven't lasted long at all. My first string job lasted about 3 hours before snapping - it was however Pro's Pro Kingut which is probably the least durable string I've ever used. Second string job was Nat Gut with Luxilon Element crosses which lasted about 10 hours...

Federer played on Sunday evening and is playing in tonight's evening session so I'm 99% certain that he'll be playing in the day session on Thursday.

@Adv. Edberg I'm afraid not, phone was running out of battery so could only take a few. I'm there again on Thursday so will see what frames are being strung when I get there.

The other thing I'd add is that I feel that the 97S feels more stable and has better plowthrough than the 97.

@Sander001 I don't remember seeing any power pads. More likely to be Babolat's woofer system.

I was at the ATP World Tour Finals last night and after the evening match, I wandered to the stringing area where one of the stringers was restringing Rafa's racquets. Once he finished one of them he kindly brought it over to allow us to touch it and for us to take some photos. He also gave...

@Babolat Official I don't have a photo of the packet but have taken a photo of the string in the frame which has the wording visible

@Babolat Official are you able to provide any info?

I actually meant you, not the OP in my last post - my mistake. Either way, let's move on.

If you read things more carefully, the OP says by the time you get the PS97S to a HL balance suitable for him (at which point the preferential balance was not revealed), it would be RF weight territory (not the OP's own RF weight territory just RF territory) - which is typically in excess of...

You're still missing the point so let me make myself clear. My original point to the OP was never to highlight how to get the PS97s to 9 pts HL or to get the RF97 to 6pts HL The point I was originally making, irrespective of what transpired later, was that as I stated above (and in my view)...

That's why I like tungsten putty for tail weighting. As it's so dense you only need a small amount to significant increase the weight and shift the balance.

Does anyone know much about the Babolat Soft Drive string? All I can find on either the forum or via google is info about the racquet which shares its namesake.

That's fair enough and totally understandable - though I'm quite suprised that removing the leather grip and using just two overgrips hasn't made your RF97 closer to equal balance (i.e. 2-4 pts HL). I guess as you were alluding to earlier, if your modified RF97 works for you and you've found...

As I'm sure you're fully aware, swapping out the leather grip for a synthetic grip isn't the only way to get to 6pt HL on a RF97... As someone who has added lead to their RF97, you'll know that you can also add a very small amount of weight in the hoop to get it 6pts HL very easily.

Yes, I know but his first sentence simply stated "12.1 oz is not significantly lighter" and his previous comment suggested that to make the PS97S HL would bring it into "RF97 weight territory". What I was trying to convey was that a 6pts HL PS97S at 344g/12.1oz is not typical RF97 weight...

I’m pretty sure a 12.3oz RF97 isn’t the norm. My pair weigh 367g/12.9oz so that’s 0.8oz or 23g which is a very significant amount of weight in a tennis racquet.

To bring mine to 6 pts headlight I've added approximately approximately 15g of tungsten putty and mine comes in at 344g so signifcantly lower in weight than the RF97.

I'd say I'm finding more precision and control with the PS97S. For me (and in its customised form), it reminds me of an amplified 2012 PS95.

I'm afraid I have to disagree with the OP here. I have a pair of matched RF97s which I’ve been playing with ever since I switched from the 6.1 95 line just over a year ago and for the most part, I have really enjoyed the racquet. My forehands (my biggest strength) have never been more...