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I was looking at the photo of the yet to be released PS97S, which peterfig called boxier, so I was trying to figure out how much boxier. It is near impossible to tell from a single photo, and even in the mockup below different lighting pretty much makes it a wash for comparing beam shape. I did find some other things though.
By this photo the top of the grip and where it reaches full diameter appear to be lower. The head guard also looks to end one cross lower (4th) than the previous version (3rd).
Other than that all I can see left is the PWS. The five strings across the PWS are centered. The grommet below and top grommet of the PWS are no longer on extremely close to the rise of the PWS. It reminded me of an earlier thread where others pointed out Grigor's string pattern didn't look retail across the PWS. I'd made this graphic to compare TW product photo to the frame he was playing with. Now I see the head guard finishes at the 4th cross.
In that thread Wilson Fan posted a link which has a few photos that show this as well where both changes are visible in prototype frames. http://photozou.jp/photo/list/3001446/8035522/?lang=en
This is my the most telling of the bunch, there are two crosses above the photo.
Carpe Diem's head guard is higher, boxy beam's PWS rises and falls centered between grommets.
Just spot checking some photos it appears he used:
Australian Open (of course), Miami, Madrid,and Roland Garros his racquet has similar traits to Carpe Diem. Queen's Club he has some warm up / press shots with the boxy beam but plays with Carpe Diem. Wimbledon and Cincinnati played with the boxy. US Open, Stockholm, and Basel he plays with the boxy and sometimes practices with Carpe Diem.
So by the time Wilson was selling the 97S to us Dimitrov was already playing matches with a different frame. By the looks of it the future 97S has similarities with what he switched to. Boxy was pretty much all we saw in red and gold. Now that it looks like we might get boxy it looks like he might have jumped ship again.
It is curious that he makes more changes to gear at the beginning of the grass season. I'll be interested to see if he continues to use the old 93 painted like a 95S (which is possibly discontinued?) or if it gets painted like the new 97S. I suppose he could switch again...

By this photo the top of the grip and where it reaches full diameter appear to be lower. The head guard also looks to end one cross lower (4th) than the previous version (3rd).
Other than that all I can see left is the PWS. The five strings across the PWS are centered. The grommet below and top grommet of the PWS are no longer on extremely close to the rise of the PWS. It reminded me of an earlier thread where others pointed out Grigor's string pattern didn't look retail across the PWS. I'd made this graphic to compare TW product photo to the frame he was playing with. Now I see the head guard finishes at the 4th cross.

In that thread Wilson Fan posted a link which has a few photos that show this as well where both changes are visible in prototype frames. http://photozou.jp/photo/list/3001446/8035522/?lang=en
This is my the most telling of the bunch, there are two crosses above the photo.

Carpe Diem's head guard is higher, boxy beam's PWS rises and falls centered between grommets.
Just spot checking some photos it appears he used:
Australian Open (of course), Miami, Madrid,and Roland Garros his racquet has similar traits to Carpe Diem. Queen's Club he has some warm up / press shots with the boxy beam but plays with Carpe Diem. Wimbledon and Cincinnati played with the boxy. US Open, Stockholm, and Basel he plays with the boxy and sometimes practices with Carpe Diem.
So by the time Wilson was selling the 97S to us Dimitrov was already playing matches with a different frame. By the looks of it the future 97S has similarities with what he switched to. Boxy was pretty much all we saw in red and gold. Now that it looks like we might get boxy it looks like he might have jumped ship again.
It is curious that he makes more changes to gear at the beginning of the grass season. I'll be interested to see if he continues to use the old 93 painted like a 95S (which is possibly discontinued?) or if it gets painted like the new 97S. I suppose he could switch again...
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