Help for choosing a backup racquet. Same frame? Different one?

[Pitti]

Hi. I'm a club player. I own an Ultra Tour. It's the only serious (over 300g) racquet I own. I have no serious backup racquet. It's comfortable and gives me great control, although it lacks a little bit of power. I can play well with it when my footwork is on. But almost 50% of my matches, I'm completely off. I suffer from migraines, and when I'm in the middle of an attack, or one of them is coming, I'm clumsy, slow, with few reflexes and less strength, which automatically puts me in defensive positions with that racquet. On such days I just can win if my rival is very inferior to me. If our abilities are somehow similar, I'll have a hard time winning. Of course, if he's better, he'll destroy me mercilessly.

So to sum it up I have normal/good days and awful days at around a 50% rate.

Now, I want to get a >300 gr. backup racquet soon. I'm not a huge string breaker. I don't know what to do:

Option #1: I could get a new UT, or its 'updated' version. Maybe stringing one of them slightly lower than the other one. I'd still be suffering on my off days, but I would still be playing with the same racquet if I broke my strings during a match.

Option #2: I could get a similar racquet, but with a little more power (for instance, a blade 18x20) and use it both on my migraine days and when I break strings in my main racquet. I'd have a slightly different racquet if I broke strings, but something I could adapt to.

Option #3: I could get a completely different racquet with a more open pattern (16x19, or even wider), focused on power instead of control. It would give me more power on my migraine days. But if I happened to break my strings during a match, it would be a very different frame that would require some adaptation.

Option #4: A combination of #1 and #3. I could get an UT, and throw in my bag a different racquet for my bad days. But this one is obviously the more expensive option and I don't currently want to spend more than a single racquet's value.

What would you do?

 

[MasterZeb]

Option 2 sounds right to me. If you’re not able to play well with your racket 50% of the time, then it’s time to find something more forgiving. Option 4 makes no sense to me. You want to find a racket that you play well with almost everyday, if not everyday I’d you want to improve imo. No point getting another UT. Demo some rackets. Find one that you like (bear in mind to demo on multiple days so that you don’t have some sort of wrong impression of a frame when you’re playing well), and then buy one. Still like it? Buy the second.

 

[Tennisrally]

First, get a racquet you like and play good with in matches and practice. Then get an exact same frame so it feels the same if a string break, not a new or koder version, the same


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[PT280 Fan]

Seems to me your top priority should be sorting out your health issues. And that's coming from somebody that's had experience in that area as well. Mornings are generally bad for me still with brain fog, dizziness and headaches. But mornings are the time here in Vegas that we can beat the heat and play. My solution has been a six ounce glass of pedialyte every morning before I go out to play. It gets the needed nutrients into my bloodstream fast.