I live in a super small town with an equally small number of tennis players. Sometimes -- in order to play -- I hit with older folks who hit with no pace. On a lark -- while playing against slower pace -- I switched from my lead-loaded RD7 to a light tweener (Head I Rad MP). I found that, in some ways, it was easier to use the I Rad against slower pace. I found it harder to make a soft reply with my RD7, that is, I found it harder to hit the ball slow enough for my opponent. So my question amounts to this: does anyone ever switch frames because of external factors? Why? Why not? Have you ever noticed that certain racquets are good for certain conditions, surfaces, opponents . . . or, is changing frames ALWAYS bad policy!
Different Racquets for different occaisions -- bad policy?
- Thread starter ejwuf
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I completely agree with you 100 percent. I had the same question in my mind as you did! I just tried the ncode 90 with gut in it and I hav never served better. The problem for me with the racquet is that I'm not good enough to hit penetrating ground strokes with it and my return of serve is pretty crappy using the ncode. Luckily, however I am serve and volleyer....so I hit very few ground-strokes on my service games. Therefore I have decided to use the ncode on my service games and my current stick for return of serve.
Think about it...for a sereve and volley game you want a small manueverable head...but for return of serve you want a bigger head with a huge sweet spot. Why on earth do we have to have one racquet to do everyting. Golfers use different clubs for different purposes so why can't tennis player do the same thing with their tennis racquets.
I posed this question to Roman at **** tennis (www.****.com ) formerly of Jay's. I said "you are going to think that I am crazy but I was thinking to use different racquets for service & return games." He responded "you are not crazy, it is a very good idea. Frankly, it has not been explored in tennis enough. Agassi's father is always suggesting that his son use two different racquets for service & return games. Furthermore, I personally use different tensions for my service games and my return games."
Think about it...for a sereve and volley game you want a small manueverable head...but for return of serve you want a bigger head with a huge sweet spot. Why on earth do we have to have one racquet to do everyting. Golfers use different clubs for different purposes so why can't tennis player do the same thing with their tennis racquets.
I posed this question to Roman at **** tennis (www.****.com ) formerly of Jay's. I said "you are going to think that I am crazy but I was thinking to use different racquets for service & return games." He responded "you are not crazy, it is a very good idea. Frankly, it has not been explored in tennis enough. Agassi's father is always suggesting that his son use two different racquets for service & return games. Furthermore, I personally use different tensions for my service games and my return games."
Kaptain Karl
Hall Of Fame
“Versions” of this approach are pretty common. I have a buddy who uses two completely different rackets for Service games and Receiving games.
I know lots of people who use the “same racket” ... but with different string tensions ... for Serve / Receive.
I don’t like it, but if you do ... go for it.
- KK
I know lots of people who use the “same racket” ... but with different string tensions ... for Serve / Receive.
I don’t like it, but if you do ... go for it.
- KK
I have been doing this for several years now, I found it difficult to play a proper game against soft hitters which hit with a lot of backspin all through the game. And same in reverse against hard hitting topspin players, using the same racquets for both type of players.
Therefore allways use racket according to type of game with good results. Presently use Volkl T10 MP 55 pound spiky for slow games and Head LM Prestige60 pound alu BB for hard fast games.
Therefore allways use racket according to type of game with good results. Presently use Volkl T10 MP 55 pound spiky for slow games and Head LM Prestige60 pound alu BB for hard fast games.
Tennis Guy
Semi-Pro
I think it's a good idea, but I find it hard to change from a racquet I'm used to. (and love)
joe sch
Legend
That is really a good idea and I have that I have often considered but never used. I usually have atleast 4 of the same rackets with different strings and tensions in my bag for making changes to faster and slower players and courts and weather conditions. The weakest part of my game is service return partly because I use a heavy old school graphite racket with a 85si head and weighing in close to 14 oz's. I think that if I had a lighter racket with a bigger head, like a POG mid or OS it would really help with my return of serve. The hardert part would be after making the racket change, getting use to the new weight and stringbed. In reality, it may cause a return error thus starting at 0-15 and I believe this is the main reason making such a drastic change for serving & returning is just not done by any open level players.
ssjkyle31
Semi-Pro
My take on it is consistency, but if you are good enough you can make adjustment to play a certain player. You may finmd it hard to find the grove. I find that if you play with the older guys, some of them a pretty much turn off at hard hitting, ace generating devils.
So I been looking for a whole set of different rackets to play the slow pace crowd. I have a set of Tour 10 MPs and Iradicals for the hard hitters/topspin. Since these rackets are low power I find that I hit the net alot because I tried to slow down the pace by slowing down the racket speed. I was hoping by getting a tweener racket I can get the ball over the net without to much of heavy ball effect.
What rackets are you using to accomplish this?
So I been looking for a whole set of different rackets to play the slow pace crowd. I have a set of Tour 10 MPs and Iradicals for the hard hitters/topspin. Since these rackets are low power I find that I hit the net alot because I tried to slow down the pace by slowing down the racket speed. I was hoping by getting a tweener racket I can get the ball over the net without to much of heavy ball effect.
What rackets are you using to accomplish this?
