Dunlop MW200G 95 vs Volkl Tour 10 Mid

[Lavs]

Can anybody make a comparison of these to sticks.
What comes into my mind first, they are pretty common in terms of flex, weight, balance, feel. Both are true players, classical frames. Both are lowpowred. Nonetheless, if somebody had experience to play with both rackets by any chance, can you comapare in terms of:

- flex (which is flexier, which is more noodle)
- balance (which is more suitable for 1HBH)
- power (which has more pop)
- playability (I heard that after one year of usage MW200G loosing its playability a lot.. I cant confirmed as never played with this stick)..
- groundstroke
- stability

 

[Don S]

Ok, this is just me and of course your mileage may vary.

I used both the MW 200G and Volkl Tour 10 Mid Gen 1. Maybe I just got a bad MW 200G but that racquet was the biggest POS I've ever owned. it felt like I was hitting with a dead half frozen fish, zero feel. Spec wise it should have appealed to me, I also use the Head PT 280 and between that one and the Tour 10 Mid gen 1, they just slayed the MW200. Backhand wise, for my ohbh, the Tour 10 mid is hands down the best racquet for that.
Hitting a quality shot with the MW200 was a chore whereas with my Volkl, I can just swing away and it goes where I want it.

Now to be fair, many many people on the boards love the MW200 so I'm willing to concede that it's probably a very good racquet. I think it's what James Blake uses but I could be wrong.
I was using the Tour 10 about a year before I bought my MW200 (because I wanted to see what all the hype was about) and the mnute I took my first hit with it, I knew it wasn't a racquet I'd ever bond with. Maybe due to the fact that I absolutely love Volkl racquets, and play the C10 pro pretty much exclusively it may have introduced a certain amount of bias in me.

Long story short, the only upside of the MW 200 was that it proved I can control my temper enough not to have beat it against the net post repeatedly..... and it was easy to sell.