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Legend
Ok so , I recall an educated poster saying that Becker when he won Wimbledon was really using a puma vilas racket not the “puma Boris Becker winner racket”
The winner is a silver color and with a red head top of the frame .
The puma vilas was a champagne color with a lil green puma . With a read head top of frame ? Can not recall ..
Anywho .. I’m not really questioning the validity of all that , I’m looking for the specs of the
Sweet sweet damn near impossible to find elusive
Puma vilas racket !
Does anyone have the specs .
What I’m trying to figure is once I have the specs of the vilas
I’d like to get the specs for the infamous red and blue -Boris Becker limited edt championship frame ( no font blank frame )
And see if the specs of those two tennis rackets line up..
This will tell me a couple of things ..
Kind of......
First off I really wish I knew how true it is about the making of that limited edt championship frame .
Was it literally like how I imagine it Ya think ?
In my mind here is how it would go and makes for a fairy tale tennis nerds dream..( like me )
Becker or his team , sees his racket stash depleting . Puma is out of business so they ain’t pressing any sticks for no one ..
Not even the golden boy...
So team Becker sets out to find a manufacturer that can help him find another . I do know at one point he tried estusa but to no avail. Then he went blank on his strings No stencil except for the 2 vs lines ...
Then after that he went to head or they came to him , either way and made a racket for him which I believe is the head graphite pro the series that put out the “ wedge tech” his was gonna be a version without that tech I believe which would be the non widebody what so ever , “TF” version or some stuff like,that .. he tried it I think , maybe even played a tournament with it ? But to no avail.. story goes or could be folklore , the shape of the puma was set so perfect for his non dominant hand , that he couldn’t get around without that cradle shape , which I too can attest it is PERFECT to have your non dominant hand to cradle it the EXACT same way he did, matter of fact it seems as if when the design team
Went to mold it , they made it to where you would have to put your other hand up high and wrap your fingers around it’s shoulders .. to me .. it’s the best feeling racket ever designed still to this day for a one handed players ready position and start the backswing in that cradled position. At this point it’s almost like who gives a damn how it hits , it’s so glorious just to take a one handed backhand mock swing , how can it not be amazing ! Anyway I digress as usual ....
So back to finding a real replacement frame for boom boom ..
So head sports comes back into play here in the story and comes together with Boris or his team and somehow some way gets the “ rights”to the puma mold or tweaks it just a bit in a way that won’t take away the feel of the puma and bakes up some for him and some for us.
So ..
What’s inside of the racket ? Is what I’m dying to know .
Did Boris take his 3 or 4 fave sticks outta his stash and say make a few thousand “ just like these “ .?
Hmm simple enough right . Yeah NO WAY..
I’m no engineer , but I have to assume someone at HEAD had to know the “ mix “ of the either
Puma vilas or “ the other whatever it really is “ under all the paint ..
So here we are boys and girls .
If anyone knows the specs of the Puma Vilas tennis racket I’m all ears
The winner is a silver color and with a red head top of the frame .
The puma vilas was a champagne color with a lil green puma . With a read head top of frame ? Can not recall ..
Anywho .. I’m not really questioning the validity of all that , I’m looking for the specs of the
Sweet sweet damn near impossible to find elusive
Puma vilas racket !
Does anyone have the specs .
What I’m trying to figure is once I have the specs of the vilas
I’d like to get the specs for the infamous red and blue -Boris Becker limited edt championship frame ( no font blank frame )
And see if the specs of those two tennis rackets line up..
This will tell me a couple of things ..
Kind of......
First off I really wish I knew how true it is about the making of that limited edt championship frame .
Was it literally like how I imagine it Ya think ?
In my mind here is how it would go and makes for a fairy tale tennis nerds dream..( like me )
Becker or his team , sees his racket stash depleting . Puma is out of business so they ain’t pressing any sticks for no one ..
Not even the golden boy...
So team Becker sets out to find a manufacturer that can help him find another . I do know at one point he tried estusa but to no avail. Then he went blank on his strings No stencil except for the 2 vs lines ...
Then after that he went to head or they came to him , either way and made a racket for him which I believe is the head graphite pro the series that put out the “ wedge tech” his was gonna be a version without that tech I believe which would be the non widebody what so ever , “TF” version or some stuff like,that .. he tried it I think , maybe even played a tournament with it ? But to no avail.. story goes or could be folklore , the shape of the puma was set so perfect for his non dominant hand , that he couldn’t get around without that cradle shape , which I too can attest it is PERFECT to have your non dominant hand to cradle it the EXACT same way he did, matter of fact it seems as if when the design team
Went to mold it , they made it to where you would have to put your other hand up high and wrap your fingers around it’s shoulders .. to me .. it’s the best feeling racket ever designed still to this day for a one handed players ready position and start the backswing in that cradled position. At this point it’s almost like who gives a damn how it hits , it’s so glorious just to take a one handed backhand mock swing , how can it not be amazing ! Anyway I digress as usual ....
So back to finding a real replacement frame for boom boom ..
So head sports comes back into play here in the story and comes together with Boris or his team and somehow some way gets the “ rights”to the puma mold or tweaks it just a bit in a way that won’t take away the feel of the puma and bakes up some for him and some for us.
So ..
What’s inside of the racket ? Is what I’m dying to know .
Did Boris take his 3 or 4 fave sticks outta his stash and say make a few thousand “ just like these “ .?
Hmm simple enough right . Yeah NO WAY..
I’m no engineer , but I have to assume someone at HEAD had to know the “ mix “ of the either
Puma vilas or “ the other whatever it really is “ under all the paint ..
So here we are boys and girls .
If anyone knows the specs of the Puma Vilas tennis racket I’m all ears
