thanks. I will buy this one. 9 is good size, why I would need bigger size? What do you have in your bag to need a 12 version?Yes. It's a REALLY well made bag. Yonex took a step forward in quality. Heavy duty materials, nothing about it feels cheap. Haven't felt a bag that felt as high quality as this one. the 12 is really nice. Massive. Bigger than the Babolat 12.
thanks. I will buy this one. 9 is good size, why I would need bigger size? What do you have in your bag to need a 12 version?I am going to need place for 5 racquets, 1 towel, 1 shoes, 1.5L water, 2 bananas, 1 bag for wet clothing after the match, 1 bag for clean clothes. I thinnk 9 size will be ok or?
I have this bag and it should fit everything you mentioned although the bag will probably be entirely full. The bag can technically fit 9 rackets but it will be a very very tight fit. Also, I may have gotten unlucky with my bag but the straps are very squeaky on mine...
Otherwise I like the bag alot
The Yonex 9 is the perfect "big" size. Roomy without being huge. I don't know what you would "need" the 12 for -- even the pros who use it look like they're carrying a half-empty bag. It's veeeery roomy. What I will say is that a loaded up smaller bag is more uncomfortable to carry than a larger bag (it's denser) with the same stuff spread out. I carry 4 racquets, a load of sweat bands, some extra strings, 1-2 cans of balls, hat, prescription goggles, ankle and knee braces, towel, maybe a spare pair of shoes, tape, pain killers, dampeners, plus room for keys, wallet, spare clothes, etc. I try to keep all my tennis **** in my bag because my wife hates finding it around the house. So I keep everything in one bag. I'm using the Babolat 12 because the 6 is just a little tight. Do I get comments? Occasionally. Dumb ****. "Hey, do you have a body in there?" "How many rackets do you have, 50?" I just tell them to shut up and serve. Guys get so weird when someone else has something bigger than them. Except for cars. Big oversize trucks and jeeps are manly. Do you need tires than large to get around? You need 3 rows and 420 HP to drive to work? One guy I was playing a USTA match against last summer made a comment on my Pure Strike 12 bag. I usually get right to the point and say, "Do me a favor, pal, and STFU." Works.
a real man uses WD40 for a deodorantNo, not unlucky. Mine squeak like hell, too. Try a little WD40 on the plastic.
If you're in the mood for something impressionable you could try One Strings:
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Honestly, 9/10 tennis bags blow and none of the large manufacturers of luggage seem to really care about tennis, like they do Golf
Has anyone confirmed this bag is made in Italy?
LOL, I kinda knew what PRC stand for!
Now you also know what ROC is.
I believe some of the One Strings gear comes both from the PRC and ROC.
If you’re interested in another quality vendor:
http://www.angelltennis.com
ALL Angell stuff comes from ROC.
Never tried with Angell, anyway. Happy with Yonex racquet but not Yonex bags. Had one and the zip was broken.
Yeesh, I understand this belongs in that other room on the forum, on a thread absolutely nobody will bother to read - it's just I have a huge goddamned need to rant and rave ABOUT THE HORRIBLE TENNIS BAGS being produced today.
It's my fifth bag this year, I've needed to order practically everything online as I tend to move around a fair bit. I'm not looking for something worthy of the Louis Vuitton museum, I'm not asking for something that'll last through nuclear winters.
All I want is a simple, NON FRIGGING NEON, bag which is suitable to check in while flying. DOES ANY FRIGGING MANUFACTURER - outsourced to a cheap space labour factory in PRC - FACTOR that people may sometimes want to get on a flight with our bags? What about the pros? How on earth do they carry all their rackets?
WILSON, YONEX, BABOLAT - all of you are charged of making rubbish bags that cannot be locked. Hard to believe, they're even getting worse!!! It's like you people deliberately don't want us to get on flights with your bags - could that be it?
Earlier I'd thread a wire or one of those locks with wires through the zips to securely fasten them for flying. The bags I've recently bought don't even have holes to do this anymore. Forgeddaboit it. This evening I needed to use tape, as if it were an elemental force, to keep the two zips together. Tape, and HOPE. Hope that somewhere along a fourteen hour flight, with multiple transit points, the tape holds fast.
For my court usage I hate your neon bags so very much I use a plain gym sac. I don't need your yellows and pinks and radioactive greens piercing my eyes from across the court. And I'd buy any decent bag out there that could store 3-4 rackets, if there were one. Tumi? Not a chance. Victorinox? Nada. Rimova? Nope. Nobody's got decent luggage that factors tennis travel - especially the frigging manufacturers in the industry.
TENNIS WAREHOUSE - yes you. YOU! You're charged with allowing this to happen with years of far too generous youtube reviews. A bag's very essence is a place for all your junk for travel correct? How come not one of your goddamned reviews factor getting on an aeroplane? I don't want a huge bothemoth monster bag, I just want a 6 or 15 pack to accompany my tasteful one, for my tennis crap. Is this so complicated to imagine?
TW, Christ God Damed sake - aeroplanes. This means peace of mind as you sit in an aluminum tube 30,000 ft above the earth already stressed without needlessly worrying about dirty laundry in the cargo hold below. Hold these people accountable for crying out loud. When the cheapest no name backpack from Walmart, produced in whatever unpronounceable province, in whichever unpronounceable country, puts zips that can be locked - just little itsy bitsy holes in the zips - how come you can't bring this up in your reviews?
I don't need more Babolat logos on my hideous neon polenta bags. What I need are zips, and designs, that allow me to get on my tin can aircraft with my rackets.
BTW - just watched the above match and blah blah blah Federer. Blah blah M. Zverev - hey, wasn't that also the name of a character in Street Fighter, back when Nintendo made consoles? Anyway. Blah, Blah Nadal. Djokovic. Court conditions! Blah. H2H Blah. Blah blah, blah, blah.
There, kept it on point.
Now just give me bags with goddamned zips that have holes in them for locks.
BTW.
In the end I’ve settled for Gosen bags. They seem best for travel:
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I was thinking about asking you which bag is the best. I will have a look at Gosen. Thanks!
@Hydrocella, can't find the link for that Gosen backpack townuse as I need to see inside.
I have this bag. Can confirm it is excellent.
BTW.
In the end I’ve settled for Gosen bags. They seem best for travel:
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@Hydrocella, can't find the link for that Gosen backpack townuse as I need to see inside.
Not the easiest to find Gosen outside of Japan. I see the brand sometimes on Amazon but always frightfully expensive.
Try Japanese online shopping site Rakuten.
For inner view when I get back home tonight will take some pictures and put them up.
no idea what she's saying...
seems solid.
is it cheaply made though (ie. the stitching)? or is it "north face bag" like construction?
the ultimate hustler move.... some crappy gym bag, made by jansport or le sac.Really, everything depends on your purpose for a bag.
I hate walking on to a court with a huge bag, my tennis sessions are between 1-2 hours so a plain gym sac works ideally for me.
i'm totally getting the gosen! thx.The issue comes with storage and travel, hence my huge rant somewhere above, and in many places on the forums. After many, many bags, I consider pretty much all the 'sports companies' rubbish, in terms of luggage. Wilson, Babolat etc don't make anything, they get factories to make them, and to me this is obvious in their lack of understanding, or even recognition what people need when travelling. Maybe its just me who's nitpicky, who knows?
Anyway, after a lot of time/effort spent on it, I'm currently using the below three bags:
On court and bicycling around: Adidas Alliance II Gym Sac
This is the best of all the gym sacs because it has a zipper and two mesh sides for water bottles etc. I've actually managed to put 4 rackets in it, amazingly.
Available here on TW
Day trip by car in summer: Gigavibe
Svelte, sleek, carries 2 rackets, and is surprisingly roomy. It's very well designed and thought out.
Available on Amazon
Week trip by plane: Gosen
It's the best and sturdiest bag I've ever had, so much so that at times I feel perhaps it might even cross the line into being too damn sturdy. By this I mean, it should be able to take 4 or 5 frames, but somehow more than 2 gets in the way of it being pretty and tasteful etc because the sides bloat up a bit. But yeah, outside of this little nitpicking, I've never had a better bag then this one and I love it. I enjoy "locker" type luggage where there's an assigned place for everything, because I hate fishing about a bag for stuff. Clothes should be here, electronics should be there etc and Gosen, perhaps the Japanese, are very good about these things.
Available on Rakunten Marketplace
Airplane cargo long trip: Technifibre ATP
I really don't like soft bags but to me this is the best of the bunch.
Available here on TW
Bunch of images below, and one for the family for a sense of scale.
Gosen
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Technifibre
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Gigavibe
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Scale/Group
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Hope this was of help.
the ultimate hustler move.... some crappy gym bag, made by jansport or le sac.
maybe the string bags would be even better (ie. what kids use)
or just a "racquet" cover...
for local play i either:
a) for matches, do the 12 racquet tennis bag (need sweat stuff, extra racquets, grips, chair, etc...), don't want to try to remember what i need for when
b) for clinics/practice... just carry 2 racquets
i'm totally getting the gosen! thx.
love the molle loops on the gosen... very tacti-cool
darn... only neon yellow avail. wanted black or grey. i suppose it would be better to spot on the luggage carousel
the technifibre looks very northface like... is it similar heavy duty construction?
the ultimate hustler move.... some crappy gym bag, made by jansport or le sac.
maybe the string bags would be even better (ie. what kids use)
or just a "racquet" cover...
for local play i either:
a) for matches, do the 12 racquet tennis bag (need sweat stuff, extra racquets, grips, chair, etc...), don't want to try to remember what i need for when
b) for clinics/practice... just carry 2 racquets
i'm totally getting the gosen! thx.
love the molle loops on the gosen... very tacti-cool
darn... only neon yellow avail. wanted black or grey. i suppose it would be better to spot on the luggage carousel
the technifibre looks very northface like... is it similar heavy duty construction?
Shock absorbers are another gripe.
Do manufacturers really expect us to believe vibration dampening in tennis is needed on levels of earthquake planning in modern day, supertall, skyscrapers?
Have a look at this:
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Isn’t it the same as this?
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...which is a goddamned 600 tonne steel ball at the top of this:
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Is it really necessary to worry about Richter scale events as we attempt our forehands?
@moderators
Fedr
Is this bag still available?If you're in the mood for something impressionable you could try One Strings:
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Honestly, 9/10 tennis bags blow and none of the large manufacturers of luggage seem to really care about tennis, like they do Golf
Is this bag still available?
No idea. It was a few years back when I’d bought some stuff from them.
Yeah, i remember this one back then, that's why i ask. Need to check their web site.
Unfortunately, I have alot of racquets. I need at least 9-12 tennis bag.
hilarious.Also, if you’re into unique vibration dampeners and are buying that Gosen on a Japanese marketplace, try out a few of the below. They’re the nicest dampeners I’ve ever used. I’m being flippant in my post - the guy and I are just being a bit silly. They’re very good.
do you carry all of them?Unfortunately, I have alot of racquets. I need at least 9-12 tennis bag.
Yep, I lives in the apartment, no room. Leave it in the car when I’m home from competitions.do you carry all of them?
when i was using my head ti radicals... i had 9... but only ever carried 3 at a time.
You even put tennis bag into the compartment in the airplane legally?Above Gosen will definitely not work. I haven’t come across a decent 9-12 bag. I’m looking for one myself. The best one I’d come across was the 2016 (?) Babolat RG edition - but it was just too large. Also, absolute garbage for getting on airplanes.
I have to believe Gosen has a 9-12 model somewhere, the tricky part is not knowing if it’s for badminton or tennis before purchase.
You even put tennis bag into the compartment in the airplane legally?
do you carry all of them?
when i was using my head ti radicals... i had 9... but only ever carried 3 at a time.
Overall my experience with One Strings wasn’t a positive, but I also bought a bunch of things when they first branched out from their forte of strings so they might well have improved. They don’t seem to have the commitment like Angell has when it comes to engineering, it’s more fashion applied back to tennis, which is okay for a towel or wristband, but not enough when it comes to items that need durability.
I see, thank you. So you don't satisfy with their bag?
Didn’t get around to trying their bag(s). Not a fan of the conventional designs in tennis bags. Beyond the colours/patterns it looks the same as every other bag out there.
Has anyone tried this bag?
https://www.karakal.com/tennis/tennis-racket-bags/pro-tour-elite-12-racket-bag-kz990
Good quality?
I like it functionally.
Can't decide if it's a total eyesore or a really nice looking bag.Has anyone tried this bag?
https://www.karakal.com/tennis/tennis-racket-bags/pro-tour-elite-12-racket-bag-kz990
Good quality?
I like it functionally.
Can't decide if it's a total eyesore or a really nice looking bag.
With domestic flights, everything works fine if I bring 2 racquets in a backpack.Yeah. Good question.
Back in the day when I would fly with max 2 frames I’d carry them in my laptop bag with the ends poking out. Nowadays who knows what airlines allow in different parts of the world so I check my bag in.
With domestic flights, everything works fine if I bring 2 racquets in a backpack.