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The Pure Strike VS is expected in 2021. It has probably been delayed by the Pandemic situation.
Babolat usually releases VS versions of the same model at some point after the standard models are released.
I would expect the current model VS in 2021 and a new Pure Strike range sometime in 2022. But we will just have to wait and see how much the Pandemic situation continues to affect things.
You are definitely correct that the pandemic has caused delays with the new Pure Strike VS. The R&D and testing was delayed, so the Pure Strike VS won't be out before the 4th quarter of 2021 at the earliest from what I've heard. The plan in general is for the VS frames to launch the year after the non-VS frames come out. For example, we launched the current Pure Aero in 2019 (technically late 2018, but we consider it the 2019 Pure Aero family), and the Pure Aero VS launched in 2020. The Pure Strike family as a whole came out in 2020, so the VS version will launch in 2021 hopefully. I don't have any other details about it, and won't until Spring it sounds like.
Josh