Racquets that you wanted to love but hated .

toby55555

Hall of Fame
Donnay Borg Pro (black wooden racket). So long ago I can’t remember much about it other than it only had a few outings.
 

blrmkr

New User
Dating myself here, but........
Wilson T-2000 Tells you how good Jimmy Conners was to use that racquet. All power. Any control was on you.
Dunlop Fort-Ditto comments above but insert John McEnroe.
 

Guy Jones

Rookie
Got to personally put the Biomimetic 300 Tour here, lovely paintjob but felt far too underpowered, in a way that disabled my ability to hit winners into a fairly open space. The Bio 100 and 200 Tour despite having smaller head sizes crush the ball better and have more user-friendly sweet spots. I'm not one to play about with lead, so no doubt some of these things could be improved.
 

GN-001

Semi-Pro
Got to personally put the Biomimetic 300 Tour here, lovely paintjob but felt far too underpowered, in a way that disabled my ability to hit winners into a fairly open space. The Bio 100 and 200 Tour despite having smaller head sizes crush the ball better and have more user-friendly sweet spots. I'm not one to play about with lead, so no doubt some of these things could be improved.

300 tour is 18x20 right?

I played with the biomimetic 300 for several years. Also very underpowered but the lead at 12, 3 and 9 really helped. It's a very light racquet so it was easy to customise. The bio300 gets a mention here too because I loved everything about it besides the very small sweet spot.
 

Guy Jones

Rookie
300 tour is 18x20 right?

I played with the biomimetic 300 for several years. Also very underpowered but the lead at 12, 3 and 9 really helped. It's a very light racquet so it was easy to customise. The bio300 gets a mention here too because I loved everything about it besides the very small sweet spot.
Yeah it is the 18*20 frame. It is the same frame as the M Fil 200 plus, but that is a 16*19 and despite having a higher stiffness rating plays softer to me and has more power, significantly, as well as a bigger sweet spot.
 

Sambuccashake

Hall of Fame
Hate is a powerful word but the Babolat Project One7 was incredibly lackluster to me.

Had very high hopes after reading reviews.
 

Purplemonster

Hall of Fame
I wanted to love tennis with my woody, whatever the brand was, when I was kid... Instead, it damaged my wrist and put me out of the game for 25 years...

Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

Damn man, that is really open to interpretation.
 

Sintherius

Semi-Pro
The Wilson Six.One Tour BLX 90.
I actually bought one, because my friend at the time did as well (along with a few K90s) and he let me try it out.
I fell in love during the honeymoon phase, but man was I not good enough to use it. Don't get me wrong - it feels like heaven when you hit the sweetspot. But high school me couldn't use it for a 3 set match.. although I did learn to hit a very nice OHBH.
 

Fairhit

Hall of Fame
I think you have to have a fairly high level to really "hate" the performance of a racquet, I've tried to not let myself go in too deep with this, I own like 10 - 11 frames and I've tried them all and found upsides to all of them, I think that I can modify my game a little bit to enjoy everyone of them.

Anyway, I tend to gravitate towards a control type of frame and I discovered this thanks to the Pure Aero, too much unwieldy power, I was spraying balls all over the club, I had to dial back a lot to keep the ball in play but nevertheless, it is a fun racquet to hit with.
 

Bolt

Semi-Pro
Wilson Pro Staff Classic 6.1 95 - such a great looking frame but I swear it's filled with meh
Donnay Revolutive Apollo - my parents bought this for me in high school and it was far above my skillset
 
Wish i liked the feel of the
Wilson original ps 85 and 95, wilson tour 90, k, ncode...RF autograph....anything RF.

I hit nice backhand returns with these, but they never felt right to me in matches. Wish i liked them. Great looking. Nice power.

Positive associations with edberg, pete and federer.
 
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Roland G

Hall of Fame
300 tour is 18x20 right?

I played with the biomimetic 300 for several years. Also very underpowered but the lead at 12, 3 and 9 really helped. It's a very light racquet so it was easy to customise. The bio300 gets a mention here too because I loved everything about it besides the very small sweet spot.

I loved the Biomimetic 300 Tour but without lead was definitely low in the power department. I had a leather grip and about 10g of lead on mine and that really brought it to life. Not exactly a ball crusher but great feel and control. The paint job is one of my absolute faves too. Sweet
 
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