Ivan lendels current racquet

men8ifr

men8ifr

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I'm watching Queens and he has a white racquet that looks hexagonal head shape, white strings n the edges and black strings in the centre or maybe it's a strange stencil. Does anyone know know what it is?
 
haqq777

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I am curious to know as well. I saw a clip of him and Murray on ATP website and that was the first question that popped in my head as well.
 
moon shot

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vsbabolat

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big ted said:
yep its the bosworth tour 96 that they sell for $400.
not sure what his specs are tho..
http://www.bosworthtennis.com/pages/racquet.html
the pic above looks like alot of lead on it, i remember his old
racquets used to be 14oz. strung. not sure why theres no
bosworth decals on his...
navratilova uses it also and lendl also convinced stepanek to use
it at one point and had the best results of his career..
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Navratilova is back using Yonex for the last couple of years.
 
haqq777

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Shroud said:
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/lendls-eight-knot-hybrid-string-job.454102/
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moon shot said:
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/fox-racquets.368101/

They are older than TW's online catalog
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DUROC said:
Lendl claims it's the greatest frame he has ever played with..........has joked that if he had that frame back in the 80s he would have been even more successful. Go figure.
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Thanks guys! Had no idea.
 
ThePhamster

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Captain Karma said:
How is it possible to string different types of strings on the outside and centre of the racquet ?


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Lendl's using a stringing technique known as the "Lendl Pattern". That's how one string ends up being in the middle and the other string surrounding.
 
DrumWizOHBD

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Captain Karma said:
How is it possible to string different types of strings on the outside and centre of the racquet ?


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This video shows you how it's done. It's a great pattern, giving you the benefit of full poly spin and control, but with comfort on mis-hits and more feel and power. The downside is, it can be a bit of work and extra planning, calculating string lengths, starting points, widening grommet holes, creating new tie-off points, etc. Plus, depending on the racquet, you need quite a bit more of the "inside" string than a standard 20' for a half set. So, it pretty much requires you to use string cut from a reel, or be prepared to throw away 12-14 ft of string each time. :-/ On my Donnay Pro One MP's, which I used the Lendl Pattern often, I needed 26' of the Poly and about 16' of the Multi (Lendl uses Gut).

*The video was made by TW Forum user IRVIN, who is a great wealth of knowledge on everything stringing!
 
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DrumWizOHBD said:
This video shows you how it's done. It's a great pattern, giving you the benefit of full poly spin and control, but with comfort on mis-hits and more feel and power. The downside is, it can be a bit of work and extra planning, calculating string lengths, starting points, widening grommet holes, creating new tie-off points, etc. Plus, depending on the racquet, you need quite a bit more of the "inside" string than a standard 20' for a half set. So, it pretty much requires you to use string cut from a reel, or be prepared to throw away 12-14 ft of string each time. :-/ On my Donnay Pro One MP's, which I used the Lendl Pattern often, I needed 26' of the Poly and about 16' of the Multi (Lendl uses Gut).

*The video was made by TW Forum user IRVIN, who is a great wealth of knowledge on everything stringing!
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Wow brilliant ! Thanks for this !! Too cool


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Harry_Wild

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Ivan seems to delight in plays with off beaten path racquet brands. Kneissl White Star Pro, Adidas GTX Pro Graphite, Mizuno and now it is Bosworth! LOL!
 
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Harry_Wild said:
Ivan seems to delight in plays with off beaten path racquet brands. Kneissl White Star Pro, Adidas GTX Pro Graphite, Mizuno and now it is Bosworth! LOL!
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If I'm not mistaken the Kneissl was the first synthetic racquet, that being not made of wood or metal. It had a layup of graphite and later versions added kevlar. Sampras actually played with a Kneissl when he was young and had a two hand backhand.

The adidas was built at Lendl's request and was only a change of paint. Kneissl produced the GTX Pro Graphite for Adidas in Austria.

His Mizuno was a paintjob of the same frame as well, except for at Wimbledon he played with an actual Mizuno 90.

In a way Lendl was an early adopter, seeing the benefit of changing technology, of consistent specs in his frames, and changing racquets when balls were changed.
 
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TinTin 1

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moon shot said:
If I'm not mistaken the Kneissl was the first synthetic racquet, that being not made of wood or metal. It had a layup of graphite and later versions added kevlar. Sampras actually played with a Kneissl when he was young and had a two hand backhand.

The adidas was built at Lendl's request and was only a change of paint. Kneissl produced the GTX Pro Graphite for Adidas in Austria.

His Mizuno was a paintjob of the same frame as well, except for at Wimbledon he played with an actual Mizuno 90.
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I had a contract with Mizuno at the same time and used the Lendl 90. Great frame.
 
vsbabolat

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moon shot said:
If I'm not mistaken the Kneissl was the first synthetic racquet, that being not made of wood or metal. It had a layup of graphite and later versions added kevlar. Sampras actually played with a Kneissl when he was young and had a two hand backhand.

The adidas was built at Lendl's request and was only a change of paint. Kneissl produced the GTX Pro Graphite for Adidas in Austria.

His Mizuno was a paintjob of the same frame as well, except for at Wimbledon he played with an actual Mizuno 90.

In a way Lendl was an early adopter, seeing the benefit of changing technology, of consistent specs in his frames, and changing racquets when balls were changed.
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Adidas produced the GTX in France under license after that early production in Austria. I have one of Lendl's actual Adidas GTX Pro-T and it was made in France
 
vsbabolat

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jetlee2k said:
As I promised, I have sometime during the holiday break to take some pictures of my Lendl collection.. Here is it for some of you guys that who are truly Lendl's fan..

Here is the brand new Adidas GTX Pro & MID

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Brand new Adidas GTX Pro-T

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Brand new Adidas GTX Pro Boron

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These are racquets sale for public.. I will post some actual Bosworth customize for Lendl next..
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jetlee2k said:
Adidas GTX MID-T Lendl

Here is the GTX MID-T Lendl version.. The Lendl ones are difference mold than the retail one. It's about 5square inch smaller. It's like the exact mold of GTX Pro-T but bigger ...
Most of Lendl racquets weight ranging between 355g-365g UNSTRUNG..

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here is the overlay of retail version and Lendl Bosworth version

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Captain Karma said:
Can someone post pics of the adidas frames ??? Was always fascinated by them


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Here you go!
 
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