Micky
Semi-Pro
I just posted the following review of the racquet and wanted to share it here.
First of all, I need to apologize to the Tennis Warehouse play testers that regarded the new Head Speed Pro 2022 as one of the best ever and even Chris changing to it as his new racquet of choice.
I have been an advocate for Babolat my last 15 years of tennis and in particular the Aero Pro Drive line and its successors Pure Aero. Even an expensive (no insurance) elbow arthroscopy would not part me away from Rafa’s racquets.
Before the pandemic hit us I tried to convince my brother to restart playing tennis and bought a few Babolats for him but they would hurt him even with pure gut strings. His flat old school tennis was a no no with the racquets I bought.
Once we went into lock down, tennis for my brother became the perfect scape. I bought a Head Speed Pro Graphene 360 strung with hybrid polys and synthetic gut and he became a solid 4.0+ player. I could never beat him again. And bought the same Speed Pros for me.
Beatiful control racquets but gave me pain in my elbow and muscles around it. Tried every single combination of strings I could think of but the worst part was that I could play only a great first set and pretty much die for the rest of the match.
Then bought the Speed Pro 2022 Auxetic and hated it. Very headlight, impossible to hit a ball off the bounce, terrible serves and impossible volleys.
When ordering the new Speed Pros I requested the matching specs service to match my current racquets. Static weight of 307gr, swing weight 290 and 9 points headlight balance. The new ones came at 307gr static weight, swing weight 292 and 8.5 points headlight balance. My old racquets had 330 swing weight with 18gr strings and a 2gr dampener. The new ones came at 322 with 18gr strings and 2gr dampener and a 6gr overgrip.
I wen’t crazy. I thought somebody from Tennis Warehouse had to warn us about the balance point and the change in specs. In their review I saw a tested 326 swing weight but I thought “ok…maybe a light weight batch of racquets“. I was so upset that I was going to return the racquets. But I said to myself “the old Speed Pros are hurting you and you are not going back to Babolat”.
Took off the overgrip from the racquets, played with lead a little bid and ended up with 0.5gr at 11, 05gr at 12 and 0.5gr at 1. All I have to say now is that the Head Speed Pro 2022 is the best racquet I ever played with.
Tennis Warehouse please accept my apology.
Micky
AeroPro Drive Commander of the Babolat Alliance
First of all, I need to apologize to the Tennis Warehouse play testers that regarded the new Head Speed Pro 2022 as one of the best ever and even Chris changing to it as his new racquet of choice.
I have been an advocate for Babolat my last 15 years of tennis and in particular the Aero Pro Drive line and its successors Pure Aero. Even an expensive (no insurance) elbow arthroscopy would not part me away from Rafa’s racquets.
Before the pandemic hit us I tried to convince my brother to restart playing tennis and bought a few Babolats for him but they would hurt him even with pure gut strings. His flat old school tennis was a no no with the racquets I bought.
Once we went into lock down, tennis for my brother became the perfect scape. I bought a Head Speed Pro Graphene 360 strung with hybrid polys and synthetic gut and he became a solid 4.0+ player. I could never beat him again. And bought the same Speed Pros for me.
Beatiful control racquets but gave me pain in my elbow and muscles around it. Tried every single combination of strings I could think of but the worst part was that I could play only a great first set and pretty much die for the rest of the match.
Then bought the Speed Pro 2022 Auxetic and hated it. Very headlight, impossible to hit a ball off the bounce, terrible serves and impossible volleys.
When ordering the new Speed Pros I requested the matching specs service to match my current racquets. Static weight of 307gr, swing weight 290 and 9 points headlight balance. The new ones came at 307gr static weight, swing weight 292 and 8.5 points headlight balance. My old racquets had 330 swing weight with 18gr strings and a 2gr dampener. The new ones came at 322 with 18gr strings and 2gr dampener and a 6gr overgrip.
I wen’t crazy. I thought somebody from Tennis Warehouse had to warn us about the balance point and the change in specs. In their review I saw a tested 326 swing weight but I thought “ok…maybe a light weight batch of racquets“. I was so upset that I was going to return the racquets. But I said to myself “the old Speed Pros are hurting you and you are not going back to Babolat”.
Took off the overgrip from the racquets, played with lead a little bid and ended up with 0.5gr at 11, 05gr at 12 and 0.5gr at 1. All I have to say now is that the Head Speed Pro 2022 is the best racquet I ever played with.
Tennis Warehouse please accept my apology.
Micky
AeroPro Drive Commander of the Babolat Alliance
