Hello Guys and Gals: This was just given to me.... Any info? Love? Anyone want it? Post your thoughts. The frame is in nice shape. Goodwill?? Grip size seems like a 4 5/8. Leather of course.. Has the cover.. Regards, Steve
I remember the model, a broad-shouldered wood-graphite composite, in basic Donnay black, with yellow/orange “rainbow” graphics. Was new, circa 1982-1984.
I don’t remember anymore, What was difference between the Mid 25 and Mid 25 S? I’m guessing the S stood Stiff?
I love it ! Wish it could be more in a regular style asethitic the broad shoulders gives away the year .. but if it was shaped like say a Donnay pro cynetuc.. I’d play with it a lot ! Due to flex
It is a nice feeling racket cutting through the air with its weight and narrow beam. I need to restring it with better string someday but I had to cobble together grommets using Fittex and cut up old grommet sets. I need to go back and put a dab of super glue on those "new" grommets so I don't have to soon repeat that semi painful re-grommeting process.
Currently training with Donnay CGX 25, it's a great racquet, surprise how well it is after all these years. Pleasantly flex.
I think Vijay Amritraj played with this Donnay 25 Pro. https://www.inuth.com/entertainment...-all-you-need-to-know-about-this-tennis-star/
He was a Donnay man for some time: https://thetennistipster.org/2013/07/26/whatever-happened-to-vijay-amritraj/
I played with that frame around 1983-1984. Except that mine was grey with red accents. It was a very good frame for its time.
The GTX came out later. The Pro 25 was Donnay's top of the line composite racquet in 1984/85 models years. Then the Pro Cynetic line replaced it in 1986
Most of those Donnays were great on court — a guy on my high school team had one — but if you ever find yourself fighting for your life in a tuk-tuk, only the Mid 25 S will do. (At 1:33 you can see clearly which model it is.) I lived in Chiang Mai, where the tuk-tuk rides are uneventful, for eight years — but any time I was in Bangkok I made sure to have my Donnay X-Dual Platinums with me. (I did not have a Mid 25 S.) No assassins came after me, so I still don't know how the newer Donnays really stack up.
Looking at the photo, I believe Vijay Armitraj is playing with the Donnay Pro 35; the shape of the head is longer than the Pro 25, though the bridge is also straight. Donnay used that “35” mould with the straight bridge on a few composite models. There was also an oversized Pro 50, if I recall correctly.
Can’t do the straight bridge for some reason . Always weirded me out . Dunno why as I love the weird shaped Rossi bridge and absolutely LOVE V throat bridge in frames . But straight alwaysflet too weird . Cheap like almost ?
Which I bet you because I really don’t like straight throat bridges , i would imagine I’d play the best tennis of my life with it
