I am going to continue to comment when I see these as such a disservice it is to us customers.
Grip size? May be interested in one
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I hit with a friends Speed MP & played amazing with it. I ordered a demo & it came with a 341 swing weight. It felt like I was playing with a different racquet than my friends!
The last time I demo'd the 2024 Speed MP and Pro over the summer, the MP came in at 326 swing weight and the Pro at 323 swing weight. I own a 2022 MP and Graphene Touch MP, 325 and 324 swing weight, respectively. For Black Friday, I bought a 2024 Speed MP Legend from TW and another one from a TW competitor (with discount code it came out to ~$175 after tax). Measured them both, and while the one from TW was a perfect compliment to the two I own (296 swing weight, 326 strung w/ 4g Soft), the one from the competitor was a bit wild - 318 g | 32.2 cm | 284 swing weight w/ the plastic on the handle but removed the placard. Reluctantly returned the 2nd one, it was a great price.
I think i’ll have to pay for the matching service to get a couple with good specs. You lucked out, 326-330 is perfect. Do you like the feel of 2022 or 2024 better?
They are interchangeable for me. The newer one is a little more muted/dampened, which I'm not a huge fan of, but Auxetic 1.0 was already a departure from the classic feel. I prefer the newer one just b/c of the pj. For whatever reason the matte white on the throat of the 2022 gets dirty easily and triggers my ocd.
Eh. You can't trust Yonex QC either these days. I've actually had better luck with Head racquets being on spec than Yonex. If you care about spect you should pay for matching regardless of the brand. Usually if I'm buying a single frame in hopes of it matching one I already have I usually just call the vendor and tell them what specs I'm looking for and that I will pay for them to test 5. I don't mind paying $20-35 extra to ensure I'm getting the specs I want if you don't you are rolling the dice regardless of the brand or frame as in my experience out of five frames there will always be at least one outlier and someone is going to buy that frame and I just don't want that to be me.
I used matching service many times. I do not know Yonex QC is going down.
MP L has a strung weight of 295g!!
I can manage 330 swing weight, but not 340. It just feels to sluggish through the air for me at that high of swing weight.
And it’s beautiful when it does work for you — requires a higher tension than usual, though. A higher SW Speed MP was the solution I found when searching for an alternative to the Gravity Pro/Tour that was more forgiving on long matches and offered easier access to power on off-balance shots.
I believe you. For me, I serve so much better with SW below 325 compared to 335+. Also I suffered when putting away short balls with high SW. Eventually have to accept the fact that I play better with mid SW.
Interesting. How can this be considering the 14.9 reported TW in the tennis warehouse database?
QC! This is an under spec racquet, so lower twist & swing weight. The last 2 Speed MP’s I hit with had 340 & 341 swing weights. So the twist weight would be higher on them.
TWU reported twistweights are pretty consistently 1-1.5 units higher than measured by briffidi, there is a thread on that somewhere. But yeah, I guess my Legend has less weight in the hoop than TW's average
Try lower gauge strings. Adding weight rarely is the solution for arm issue on a flexy racquet. 330+ SW on a MP racquet is going to hurt a lot of elbows. Not sure which genius came up with the idea.
Leather grips are stiff and transmit more vibrations to the arm - in my personal experience, it aggravated my golfer’s elbow…
Had some bad golfers elbow with ultra pro 18m and leather grip
