Help me find my new racquet!

[breadstick]

Hi everyone. I already made another thread but i cant find it now so i made a new one. Im an offensive baseliner, about 3.5 standard. Im 16 and 5'9 feet tall. Im going to the tennis store on the weekend and going to demo heaps of racquets, but i need to buy it then cause my b day is tuesday. One question first: 'What type of head racquet is better, Flexpoimt or liquid metal?'. Ok and heres the list of racquets im going to demo
Dunlop m fil 300
Head liquidmetal radical
Yonex rds 003 (should i try the rds 001 instead? its the same price)
Wislon n61 95
wilson n61 tour 90
Babolat pure drive
Babolat Aero strike

Yeah thats pretty much it. If you know of any other good racquets that are around the same price as the ones i listed, please speak up and post them!

thanks everyone

 

[breadstick]

..... i realize its like 2 am over in america but im an impatient little *****. arnt there any other aussies here?

 

[Ronny]

i would say the pure drive n m-fil 300 n maybe the tour90 n 95 if u can handle the weight

 

[lawrence]

hey, im aussie ;D i know how you feel and im impatient too (was gonna buy racquet without demoing until i realised how stupid that was. ahhaha)

try the n6.1 team if you're going to try the n61 95, its pretty much the same but:
10.something instead of 12.2 oz, MUCH lighter
8 pts headlight instead of 10pts
beam is 21mm instead of 22mm (dunno how much difference that could make)
im not sure about this, but apparently the 10oz team is only in australia and uk? because i was reading somewhere that the ones in euro and the US still have a heavier weight on the TEAM racquets
just to clear any confusion

my demo comes in tomorrow so ill let you know how it is after i have a hit

 

[breadstick]

how do i delete posts?

 

[breadstick]

sweet thx guys
i can just go down to the shop cause they have all the racquets ready to demo. I havnt heard of the n61 team, ill check it out. thx. Keep posting guys! Could someone please tell me which Yonex is better for me? (rds 001, rds 003)

 

[fgs]

breadstick,
you already made a good selection - i'd just have one more to add, that is the wilson nblade 98. give that a try also.

 

[dylo]

babolat pure drive or pdr with cortex
yonex rds001 is much better than the 003

 

[breadstick]

Hi everyone! i went down to the tennis centre 2day and had a 2 hour demoing session. I had made a list of the racquets that i was going to try but they didnt have them all. The racquets i ended up demoing were:
Wilson n61 95
Babolat Pure drive
Head flexpoint radical
Yonex rds 001
Volkl dnx 10
Dunlop m-fil 300

I warmed up using my normal racquet, then i tried the Yonex. I didnt like it much. I dont know why but it just didnt feel right.
Next i moved on to the Pure drive. It felt really nice and looked great. It had plenty of power and a huge sweetspot. i was hitting nice flat serves at a decent pace.
I used the volkl for about 10 shots before i decided i did not like it. It felt really stiff and heavy and all my shots were falling short.
The dunlop m-fil 300 felt decent. I didnt play terribly with it but i didnt play brilliantly either. it was a sort of blah racquet for me.
The head flexpoint radical felt great. All my shots were going where i wanted the to and it had a decent amount of power.
Lastly, i used the wilson n61 95. It gave me ultimate control over the ball like i had never had before. The power was pretty good to. It allowed me to create topspin better then any of the other racquets.

Anyway, after all that, i narrowed it down to 3. The flexpoint, the pure drive and the n61 95. The pure drive had the most power, the wilson had the most control and the head felt in between. I ended up going for the n61 95 because it just felt so right in my hand. Cant wait till tuesday when i get it for my birthday!

thx everyone for their input into helping my find my new racquet.

peace out

 

[Teh_pwnerer]

have fun with ur new racquet and happy bday

 

[fgs]

happy birthday breadstick! have fun, whack the ball and keep on going.