Retired Pros, who changed (or not changed) racket after retirement

[Lavs]

Interesting, who did change the racket after dropping off the Tour and play with totally different stick on Master series.
And another group - who continue to use same racket, that he used to play during his pro career.

Who changed the racket:
1. Sampras - from Wilson Pro Staff to Babolat Pure Storm
2. Chang - from POG to Babolat Aeropro Drive
3. Roddick - from Babolat Pure Drive to Wilson Shift
4. McEnroe - from Dunlop 200g to Head Speed (or Radical)

Who did not change:
1. Safin (Prestige Mid)
2. Agassi (POG)
3. Philippoussis (Prestige Mid)
4. Rafter (Prince Precision)
5. Hewitt (Yonex VCore - similar to his RDIS)

 

[Dae18]

Agassi didn’t switch permanently, but he did switch around a lot. Since 2012 he played a couple of exhibitions with the Babolat AeroPro Drive GT (2010), Donnay XP Dual 102, Prince Original Graphite 107, and recently the Yonex Percept 100D and Prince Phantom 107G

 

[jxs653]

At the Legends' match in this year's Australian Open, didn't Hass and Blake use the Head and Dunlop respectively? I remember I thought they couldn't change a thing while watching their play.

 

[mixtape]

I watched Chang play with a Dunlop SX during the Powershares Series.

 

[The Aceserver]

I believe Chang used a Pure Drive at the end of his career before he retired.

 

[McLovin]

3. Roddick - from Babolat Pure Drive to Wilson Shift

He didn’t play with the Shift during the Legends Tour. He used his trusty PD+. Only last year, after…12 years of retirement? Did he switch. And I’m pretty sure that was an advertising deal for his podcast. If nobody had approached him, he’d probably still be using his PD+.

 

[McLovin]

At the US Open this year, Delpo still had his 6.1s.

Oh, and the Bryans changed to the Blackout XTD (after changing to the PD+ near the end of their career).

Last time I saw Baghdatis (maybe 2 years ago at a Legends event?), he was still using the Pro No 1s.

 

[aus89]

At the US Open this year, Delpo still had his 6.1s.

Oh, and the Bryans changed to the Blackout XTD (after changing to the PD+ near the end of their career).

Last time I saw Baghdatis (maybe 2 years ago at a Legends event?), he was still using the Pro No 1s.

Baghdatis used a TF40 in Aus this year, Ferrero is now also sponsored by Babolat like Carlitos and has an Aero also now after using the Speed for a long time.

 

[McLovin]

Baghdatis used a TF40 in Aus this year,

Someone needs to tell the people at Pacific that it’s time to update their website…

VIDEO Marcos Baghdatis | Pacific Rackets

https://youtu.be/aFhmXYZReeg

pacific.com

 

[vsbabolat]

Someone needs to tell the people at Pacific that it’s time to update their website…

VIDEO Marcos Baghdatis | Pacific Rackets

https://youtu.be/aFhmXYZReeg

pacific.com

The prices of their gut is insane and makes VS Gut look reasonable

 

[aus89]

Someone needs to tell the people at Pacific that it’s time to update their website…

VIDEO Marcos Baghdatis | Pacific Rackets

https://youtu.be/aFhmXYZReeg

pacific.com

Been using TF since last year

 

[McLovin]

Been using TF since last year

Ironically, didn’t he switch to TF mid career, which was basically his Fischer w/ a TF PJ? I believe TF actually leased the mold from Fischer and put out a Pro No 1 copy, which was very short-lived.

 

[aus89]

Ironically, didn’t he switch to TF mid career, which was basically his Fischer w/ a TF PJ? I believe TF actually leased the mold from Fischer and put out a Pro No 1 copy, which was very short-lived.

Pacific towards the end of his career who still sell the pro #1 mold

 

[McLovin]

Pacific towards the end of his career who still sell the pro #1 mold

I was referring to the "Tecnifibre TFlash 315 VO2 Max". It was the Pro No 1 mold w/ a Tecnifibre PJ. A little Googling shows it was mid-2008:

Baghdatis to Tecnifibre?!

Just heard today that he will switch to TF - contract shall start today! Don't know more at the moment.

tt.tennis-warehouse.com

 

[aus89]

I was referring to the "Tecnifibre TFlash 315 VO2 Max". It was the Pro No 1 mold w/ a Tecnifibre PJ. A little Googling shows it was mid-2008:

Baghdatis to Tecnifibre?!

Just heard today that he will switch to TF - contract shall start today! Don't know more at the moment.

tt.tennis-warehouse.com

oh yeah didn't remember that obviously haha - Pacific still make the Pro No.1 (for $295 US/ $460 AUD)

 

[Seth]

Ironically, didn’t he switch to TF mid career, which was basically his Fischer w/ a TF PJ? I believe TF actually leased the mold from Fischer and put out a Pro No 1 copy, which was very short-lived.

I forgot all about this.

 

[dgoran]

Thought I saw Philippoussis with Prestige Pro at Australia

 

[rafa_prestige89]

Interesting, who did change the racket after dropping off the Tour and play with totally different stick on Master series.
And another group - who continue to use same racket, that he used to play during his pro career.

Who changed the racket:
1. Sampras - from Wilson Pro Staff to Babolat Pure Storm
2. Chang - from POG to Babolat Aeropro Drive
3. Roddick - from Babolat Pure Drive to Wilson Shift
4. McEnroe - from Dunlop 200g to Head Speed (or Radical)

Who did not change:
1. Safin (Prestige Mid)
2. Agassi (POG)
3. Philippoussis (Prestige Mid)
4. Rafter (Prince Precision)
5. Hewitt (Yonex VCore - similar to his RDIS)

You can add Tommy Haas (PT57A) to the "did not change" group.

 

[thanu]

Jan Michael Gambill is still using his old racquets

 

[thanu]

I believe Chang used a Pure Drive at the end of his career before he retired.

He used the Pure Drive for a while but then switched back to his Prince racquet. He played his last match with the Prince Chang Ti paint job with no stencil against Fernando Gonzalez.

 

[kevin qmto]

Actually, during his last year on tour, you can see Chang had already switched to the pure drive. So that actually happened before retirement.

-edit- someone beat me to it.

 

[OslerWeber]

thought I saw Hewitt with a Percept at AO this year. Or was it a beige vcore?

 

[OslerWeber]

Just checked. Def a percept.