MasturB
Legend
At the moment, my PS97S is just not getting the plow and stability against heavy hitting opponents.
I love the RF97, but for the most part it's brutal for serves on my shoulder, and after playing for a while there's just the fatigue. I love hitting groundstrokes with them, just the weight is too much.
I'm getting good power on the serves from my PS97s, but groundstrokes are somewhat flying and it's making me somewhat gunshy and hesitant on going for a big shot (I love unloading freely on backhands but right now they're just going out, and forehands are just spraying).
So question, I've never customized a racquet before but I'm seriously considering it.
How would I go about customizing my 97S to get more control/stability on it, without sacrificing serving racquet head speed? I'd like to add a bit more weight for stability (against players with heavy spin and power, the racket just cannot plow through the way my RF97 can), but I don't want it to lean towards the RF97 where my shoulder was killed on serves and it's a burden to swing serves. I've never added lead before, so just want to get an idea on where I should look to adding lead.
For some reference, I've previously used
6.1 90 (N-Code)
6.1 90 (K-Factor)
Babolat Pure Storm Tour GT
6.1 90 (BLX)
Back to Babs PSTGT
Pro Staff 97
Head Prestige MP
RF97 (since October 2015 until 3 weeks ago)
PS97s (currently)
I'd say the 6.1 90 BLX was one of my favorite rackets (better than KF and NCode), and the Babs Pure Storm Tour GT was the best racq I've ever had success with. I really like the 97s, I just want to slightly modify it, because I feel I'm really close to getting it where I want it.
I love the RF97, but for the most part it's brutal for serves on my shoulder, and after playing for a while there's just the fatigue. I love hitting groundstrokes with them, just the weight is too much.
I'm getting good power on the serves from my PS97s, but groundstrokes are somewhat flying and it's making me somewhat gunshy and hesitant on going for a big shot (I love unloading freely on backhands but right now they're just going out, and forehands are just spraying).
So question, I've never customized a racquet before but I'm seriously considering it.
How would I go about customizing my 97S to get more control/stability on it, without sacrificing serving racquet head speed? I'd like to add a bit more weight for stability (against players with heavy spin and power, the racket just cannot plow through the way my RF97 can), but I don't want it to lean towards the RF97 where my shoulder was killed on serves and it's a burden to swing serves. I've never added lead before, so just want to get an idea on where I should look to adding lead.
For some reference, I've previously used
6.1 90 (N-Code)
6.1 90 (K-Factor)
Babolat Pure Storm Tour GT
6.1 90 (BLX)
Back to Babs PSTGT
Pro Staff 97
Head Prestige MP
RF97 (since October 2015 until 3 weeks ago)
PS97s (currently)
I'd say the 6.1 90 BLX was one of my favorite rackets (better than KF and NCode), and the Babs Pure Storm Tour GT was the best racq I've ever had success with. I really like the 97s, I just want to slightly modify it, because I feel I'm really close to getting it where I want it.