Del Potro using another Wilson blacked-out frame

just the other day I watched Noodles interwieved by NHK news Japan and though he must be using 99 but he is using 96? that Uniqlo and Nissin logo is playing havoc on my sense of space and size
 
I believe Nishikori uses the Japanese version of the K Factor KTour:

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I thought it was the Good old N TOUR Two 95, same mold anyway.
What are the specs of the japanese version?
Kei pro is just a marketing gimmick.
 
niktub said:
I thought it was the Good old N TOUR Two 95, same mold anyway.
What are the specs of the japanese version?
Kei pro is just a marketing gimmick.
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Maybe it was the N Tour, not sure which came first. But, as you said, same mold.

I thought someone posted about it here a while back. One sec, let me do a search & see...

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Strange cause just saw a few Steam 96 and 99 frames on some USA juniors and they are very different to Japanese version. The USA version have have rounded rectangular frames instead, some serious deceptive marketing to juniors thinking they are getting the real Noodles racquet.
 
just saw another doc on tbs japan and apart that its supposedly has 22% more power than the previous Steam I dont know why they call his latest one burn when wasabi "stings" your nasals instead.
A Kikkoman soy sauce colour with wasabi green would have made a nice touch but instead that went to Raonic model after losing Tokyo Open twice.
 
racquetreligion said:
just saw another doc on tbs japan and apart that its supposedly has 22% more power than the previous Steam I dont know why they call his latest one burn when wasabi "stings" your nasals instead.
A Kikkoman soy sauce colour with wasabi green would have made a nice touch but instead that went to Raonic model after losing Tokyo Open twice.
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What the hell are you smoking?
 
living in Japan at the moment and the docos are let just say "different"
there are more Nissin commercials and Uniqlo rubbish than the other rubbish here so it was to no surprise that only now Im paying attention to Kei as I was avoiding the jargon. However after talking to peeps from sushi chefs to farmers, they are now following tennis news from Nishikori for the first time and avoiding all other tv. Its very weird to watch peeps prop up to anything Nishikori and then back to their duties.
 
racquetreligion said:
looks like a 100 square inch compared to the Big Man definitely not a 95
Hope its a flexible frame like Ferrer's Prince tour 100 to give his BH a good slingshot effect and wrist some comfort. Ive always loved stiffer frames until recently when I had a chance to use Stans Yonex setup.
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The frame is clearly a 6.1 95 series racquet...they are probably tweaking flex/specs slightly to bring it as close as possible to what he likes...and now that he had all those problems...possibly also to what he can play with without future pain.
 
After watching for the last 2 matches especially yesterday pecked away at his bh by Cuckoo, you are totally correct it looks like the old 95. DelPo is a creature of habit and sticking to his old racquet with mods looks like a big step for him.
 
The buttcap even looks like k-Factor. It's just a little rectangle in the middle of the buttcap with the W logo. Like all pre-BLX era Wilson frames.
 
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