Kemitak
Professional
What is a ‘racket line’ if not marketing?
Which racquet lines have the most slams?
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Kemitak
Professional
What’s bad about the T2000?
vsbabolat
Talk Tennis Guru
Everything. It had a sweet spot the size of dime, it was unforgiving and a pain in the ass to string. Most people went back to their wood racket or to aluminum. There was only one guy that it worked for. Maybe you heard of him?
lacoster
Professional
The POG back in the late 80s and early 90s won a slew of Grand Slam singles trophies (Michael Chang, Monica Seles, Andre Agassi, Gabriela Sabatini, and you also had Jana Novotna, Juan Carlos Ferrero, and Pat Rafter use the POG well before they won their Grand Slams). I'm sad Prince isn't a company you see anymore on tour or out in the wild these days, except for a random throwback shirt being sold at Abercrombie or PacSun.
vsbabolat
Talk Tennis Guru
Andre Agassi never won a slam with the Prince Graphite. The first slam that Agassi won was 1992 Wimbledon and he won that with the Donnay Pro One Limited Oversize and then in 1993 he switched to the HEAD Radical and won his first slam with that slam with that being the 1994 US Open. Jana Novotna used the Prince Graphite II Midplus which was a wide body racket and 95 sq.inches. Only thing it had in common with the POG is the word Graphite. Pat Rafier also see the Prince Graphite II and Juan Carlos Ferrero used the Prince Graphite LongBody that was 100 sq.inch headsize and 28 inches long.
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Kemitak
Professional
You’re mistaken: the whole stringbed is the sweetspot. That’s just how it feels. But I don’t find it any less forgiving than wood. There were definitely some aluminum Heads that were nicer. I take your point that it’s a headache to string, though.
Subway Tennis
G.O.A.T.
For me it makes Connors even greater that he could play the type of game he did with that racquet!
vsbabolat
Talk Tennis Guru
I’m not mistaken. The proof as they say is in the pudding. Every pro quickly abandon the T-2000 and went back to their wood racket or went to aluminum rackets that were far easier to play with. And yes the sweet spot was the size of a dime and very unforgiving outside that small sweet spot.
lacoster
Professional
This just proves that the Prince "Graphite" line eventually yielded many Grand Slam singles champs. I forgot to add Iva Majoli and Lleyton Hewitt to the list - they got their start with a version of the Prince Graphite.
Grafil Injection
Legend
If you count rackets that a player used at some time in their career, then the Maxply has probably >300 slams.
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I know it was true only a couple years ago, not sure if it still is, but Dunlop had the most grand slams of any racquet brand.
vsbabolat
Talk Tennis Guru
Yeah, but both switched to Yonex and won their slams with Yonex.
Kemitak
Professional
No, but you don’t know a joke when you see one.
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