Oldest racket on tour

I imagine that any of the pros using a pro-stock Prestige mid or midplus is actually using something that is similar to the "original" versions of those sticks (PC 600 or PT 630).
 
vsbabolat said:
That's a different mold, head size, head shape, and beam design than the POG Mid or Oversize. Rochus is using the MC Graphite Midplus which is 95sq.in. It came out in 1996.
Now Chang used a POG Oversize that was a inch long with a Paint Job of the Michael Chang Graphite. Chang never really used his namesake racquet........
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vsbabolat said:
It's not the POG Longbody. He uses he Michael Chang Graphite Longbody 95 (came out in 1996) with he TripleThreat Graphite paintjob.
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So Rochus uses Michael Chang signature painted to look like a Triple Threat while Michael Chang used a Prince Graphite OS painted to look like a Michael Chang signature....

the only thing better would be if Rochus used a MC signature painted to look like the old Prince Graphite.

The irony is not lost on me... ;)
 
Rochus was here in Dallas recently and I got a good look at his sticks. I thought all along that he was playing with a POG (and maybe he does sometimes) but here, he was using a Prince Triple Threat Graphite OS. In the qualies, it was easy to see the braided "stuff" that Prince put at 10 and 2 on that model.
 
wmoore said:
Rochus was here in Dallas recently and I got a good look at his sticks. I thought all along that he was playing with a POG (and maybe he does sometimes) but here, he was using a Prince Triple Threat Graphite OS. In the qualies, it was easy to see the braided "stuff" that Prince put at 10 and 2 on that model.
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That Braided "Stuff" is just decals. He does not use oversize. It's the Michael Chang Graphite Midplus (95) under the paint.......

Before the paint job:
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Rabbit said:
So Rochus uses Michael Chang signature painted to look like a Triple Threat while Michael Chang used a Prince Graphite OS painted to look like a Michael Chang signature....

the only thing better would be if Rochus used a MC signature painted to look like the old Prince Graphite.

The irony is not lost on me... ;)
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What was funny about the whole Longbody/XL/Stretch thing was when the racquets come out of the mold they are just cut to the desired length be it 27, 27.5, 28, 28.5, or 29 inches. There is no technology in it. Like how they carried on 17 years ago in the marketing.:shock:
 
Mister drool said:
Not a case of old racquet user, but i find this one an interesting example for us all:

Lukas Dlouhy uses a sub 10 ounces frame (pacific x force lite) and is still a current top 50 doubles at age 29.

Just a fun fact
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The XForce Lite is a platform racquet. Dlouhy has about 35 grams added to various positions on his frames. With strings and grip, his XForce Lite comes in around 320 grams.
 
WYK said:
There's still a couple Six One 95's and Steam molds out there.
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Steam isn't that old?

Who's using the 6.1? Didn't lehecka move to a 97?

I feel like most of the guys that did use it defected to other brands. iirc: Opelka, Rublev, Med...
 
ChrisJR3264 said:
Yeah but I guess it’s technically a custom mold developed in 2016? I forget the exact year but it’s basically an extended LM Radical in an 18x19.
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His frame, the pt113b1 used the tk113 mold, used in ti / i radical. Then he switched to tk346 which is closer to tk113 than to tk167 used for lm radical. Tk113 and tk346 are 22 mm beams and lm is 21mm.
The layup for his frame was closer to lm radical.
 
H22 fan said:
His frame, the pt113b1 used the tk113 mold, used in ti / i radical. Then he switched to tk346 which is closer to tk113 than to tk167 used for lm radical. Tk113 and tk346 are 22 mm beams and lm is 21mm.
The layup for his frame was closer to lm radical.
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His mold was the LM radical but the 346 is a PT10 layup. Or at least very close to it.
 
I am talking about the Head frames he used after he switched back to Head from Wilson H22.
Before Wilson it was using lm rad tour.
 
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