Delpo's blacked out racquet

[Bruen]

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...434812919.1073741828.245291448857687&refid=13

I'm not an expert on this, but can anyone who is, discuss what the racquet appears to be?

 

[sixone90]

Six.One 95 mold

 

[McLovin]

Yeah, looks to be 18x20:

 

[The King of Swing]

Same one he's always used. Had a conversation with one of the guys that runs a local shop in the DC area. Told me Delpos people ordered a few Kfactor 95's off him a few months ago.

 

[dr325i]

Same one he's always used. Had a conversation with one of the guys that runs a local shop in the DC area. Told me Delpos people ordered a few Kfactor 95's off him a few months ago.

I did not know that he used the K95?
I thought it was just a PJ

 

[The King of Swing]

I did not know that he used the K95?
I thought it was just a PJ

No he's always been a K95 user ever since it originally came out. Wouldn't make much sense to still have the k factor paint on his racket when Wilson had newer offerings through the years. Defeats the purpose of a paint job.

 

[dgoran]

No he's always been a K95 user ever since it originally came out. Wouldn't make much sense to still have the k factor paint on his racket when Wilson had newer offerings through the years. Defeats the purpose of a paint job.

King...i think dr was just trying to gently go about informing you that you are incorrect...Delpo uses pro stock six one 95 under his various paint jobs over the years. its either classic or hyper pro staff underneath

 

[The King of Swing]

King...i think dr was just trying to gently go about informing you that you are incorrect...Delpo uses pro stock six one 95 under his various paint jobs over the years. its either classic or hyper pro staff underneath

I'm sorry to inform you but you're both wrong lol. I know for a fact he put K95s on order and to have them customized. I'm no insider but this I do know. He's been looking everywhere for them

 

[David Le]

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...434812919.1073741828.245291448857687&refid=13

I'm not an expert on this, but can anyone who is, discuss what the racquet appears to be?

It's the Burn FST. He'll be enforcing this next year.

 

[double barrels]

as a 6'5 dude with lanky arms, I love hitting that kfactor 18x20
I still have 2, and they are not for you del po!

del po needs to stay with a 95, i don't care if its an old 6.0 or hyper pro staff
hope the dude gets better, as he would have many more years to compete for some slams!

 

[dgoran]

I'm sorry to inform you but you're both wrong lol. I know for a fact he put K95s on order and to have them customized. I'm no insider but this I do know. He's been looking everywhere for them

Yes he has been looking for k95 paint job not actual k factor but believe what you want

 

[The King of Swing]

Yes he has been looking for k95 paint job not actual k factor but believe what you want

Lol yikes. I realize I may be getting trolled here but I'm simplify passing on info that I know as fact. My guy doesn't do paint jobs, he does rackets. This isn't something I read on the Internet and have to blindly believe in. You can believe what you want.

 

[Seth]

Lol yikes. I realize I may be getting trolled here but I'm simplify passing on info that I know as fact. My guy doesn't do paint jobs, he does rackets. This isn't something I read on the Internet and have to blindly believe in. You can believe what you want.

The King of Swing,

I know you're well-meaning, but you're wrong. DelPo's paint job is matte, rather than the glossy paint scene on retails K95s. No one is quite sure what's underneath the paint, but it certainly isn't a retail K95.

Here's an authority on this question:

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/inde...-possible-change-spanish.474784/#post-7693185

 

[RanchDressing]

I have a non pws version of this frame. Pretty much a radical. OR DO I?

 

[dr325i]

Lol yikes. I realize I may be getting trolled here but I'm simplify passing on info that I know as fact. My guy doesn't do paint jobs, he does rackets. This isn't something I read on the Internet and have to blindly believe in. You can believe what you want.

Ok, little less polite now.
"Delpo's gang came to your buddy..." Pleeeeaaassseee, Wilson would make anything Delpo wants, no need for him to go to a junk yard and get some outdated sticks he never used.

Maybe your buddy can get Novak some speeds, too so he can stop using some old Radicals?

 

[The King of Swing]

Ok, little less polite now.
"Delpo's gang came to your buddy..." Pleeeeaaassseee, Wilson would make anything Delpo wants, no need for him to go to a junk yard and get some outdated sticks he never used.

Maybe your buddy can get Novak some speeds, too so he can stop using some old Radicals?

Man I never knew how sensitive posters can get over racket frames in here. I'm not really into Internet pissing contests just trying to share some info. Here's an article for you http://m.tennis.com/pro-game/2014/01/del-potro-down-two-racquets/50175/#.VdznCvu9LCQ

Does that look like Wilson can just cook up anything he wants? This guy does work for many wta and atp pros. Far from a junk yard but let me guess, I'm lying about that too right? Lol okay you win

 

[dr325i]

Man I never knew how sensitive posters can get over racket frames in here. I'm not really into Internet pissing contests just trying to share some info. Here's an article for you http://m.tennis.com/pro-game/2014/01/del-potro-down-two-racquets/50175/#.VdznCvu9LCQ

Does that look like Wilson can just cook up anything he wants? This guy does work for many wta and atp pros. Far from a junk yard but let me guess, I'm lying about that too right? Lol okay you win

I never said you are lying, I said you are misinformed!
Also, the article has more depth than the title that you only read. Wilson was trying to get him to use the latest PJ - what creates sales for them!

 

[FedLIKEnot]

This seemed to get lost but I think the fact he is still testing frames is a good sign. Further if he is able to actually hit than they should be close to recreating the specs he desires, mainly in the flex. I am not sure what pj he will be endorsing the Burn update seems to be the running idea.

That said it's common knowledge the K Factor was simply the paint job and not the actual racquet. If you told or relayed your knowledge of the "purchase" with that tint to it I feel you'd have been received better.

 

[McLovin]

Here's an authority on this question:

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/inde...-possible-change-spanish.474784/#post-7693185

Yeah, the below quote from your link pretty much sums it up:

Jamie is correct again here. To further add to this, he tried the racket below for just one practice. It is completely identical in specs, paint scheme, strings and tension to all his other rackets and the report back; "It did not feel right"

Before anyone asks, it is a Pro Staff Classic 6.1 95 (18x20) under a K Six-One 95 paint scheme.

ProStringing

Furthermore...ProStringing writes in the thread later:

Hopefully this picture will help:

It was written inside the throat on the same racket as described in my previous post.

Hope this can be of help,

ProStringing

 

[mavsman149]

I seriously still can't understand how Wilson makes custom paintjob frames for everyone but they won't make new frames for Delpo and just give him the new paintjob.

 

[vsbabolat]

I seriously still can't understand how Wilson makes custom paintjob frames for everyone but they won't make new frames for Delpo and just give him the new paintjob.

Wilson does it Delpo too. Its just he refuses to use anything else. Anything that is new will not play like his old beat up racquets that have 100's of stringing in them and 1000's of balls hit. Even though they would be same layup and specs. The new racquets will feel different.

 

[darklore009]

deplo is very picky when it comes to his rackets. His old K95 (prostaff classic 95 underneath) has been restrung a lot more than anyone in the tour (rivals sampras in term of restring the same racket 100x times). Its very hard to wilson to replicate the exact feel of his prostaff classic

 

[thefederman]

heard recently that delpo will be advertising a new line from the burn family called the burn fst 95. specs are 16*19 320g unstrung and 4 points headlight unstrung

 

[Ihatetennis]

Delpo had many of the same racquets back in that time, and he beat federer with them

He is running out of stock and will be forced to switch to a new model of it, not a new racquet, but a new clone of it.

He is just trying to use his lucky sticks with a softened feel from years of play

 

[FedLIKEnot]

Delpo had many of the same racquets back in that time, and he beat federer with them

He is running out of stock and will be forced to switch to a new model of it, not a new racquet, but a new clone of it.

He is just trying to use his lucky sticks with a softened feel from years of play

That ship has sailed. Beginning of this year albeit for only one event he had switched and I think he will continue to have switched to a new version of old racquet. I would think they matched his new sticks to the specs he has always used and adjusted the flex to where his old racquets are now. I don't think he was ever gonna rep the PS95 I think the new Burn FST 95 is the answer for all the old PS95 and 6.1 classic 95 users to rep.

 

[Ihatetennis]

That ship has sailed. Beginning of this year albeit for only one event he had switched and I think he will continue to have switched to a new version of old racquet. I would think they matched his new sticks to the specs he has always used and adjusted the flex to where his old racquets are now. I don't think he was ever gonna rep the PS95 I think the new Burn FST 95 is the answer for all the old PS95 and 6.1 classic 95 users to rep.

But let's face it a worn down frame doesn't feel like a brand new one, doesn't matter how much they can match it

 

[Seth]

Check out DelPo's twitter. A tweet on 9/8/2015 shows a picture of a blacked-out, box(ier) beam frame.

 

[lidoazndiabloboi]

Check out DelPo's twitter. A tweet on 9/8/2015 shows a picture of a blacked-out, box(ier) beam frame.

Its the same racket hes been using. Painted black with the KFactor PJ underneath. The throat sticker says "6.1 Del Potro Original"

 

[sixone90]

The most recent photo on Twitter is definitely different. The bottom of the throat looks almost like a Six One Tour 90.

 

[Seth]

The most recent photo on Twitter is definitely different. The bottom of the throat looks almost like a Six One Tour 90.

Exactly. Interested to know what it is.