DeeeFoo
Rookie
The overgrip is a very personal tennis accessory, since they're what connects the player to the racquet/strings.
A lot of pros use Tourna Grip, or some variant of it. Everyone else just uses whatever overgrip their racquet sponsor has available.
However, you don't see any pros using overgrips from Gamma, Solinco, Kirschbaum, Luxilon, etc, despite some of them producing some popular and high quality overgrips.
Why does it seem like Tourna is the only overgrip that pros use that isn't the same brand as their racquet? This is what I mean by third party, for lack of a better term. Does Tourna also sponsor them or something? How come players who use Wilson racquets don't use Yonex Super Grap, or vice versa?
Hypothetical question: What if someone like Roger Federer decided that he liked Yonex Super Grap more than the Wilson Pro that he's currently using? Would Wilson just let him use Super Grap (except with the Wilson branded finishing tape), or would they try to accommodate him by altering the Wilson Pro to be more identical to Super Grap, or would they just say "too bad, this is all we got".
I realize that my questions might seem silly or naive, but I'm really curious about it.
A lot of pros use Tourna Grip, or some variant of it. Everyone else just uses whatever overgrip their racquet sponsor has available.
However, you don't see any pros using overgrips from Gamma, Solinco, Kirschbaum, Luxilon, etc, despite some of them producing some popular and high quality overgrips.
Why does it seem like Tourna is the only overgrip that pros use that isn't the same brand as their racquet? This is what I mean by third party, for lack of a better term. Does Tourna also sponsor them or something? How come players who use Wilson racquets don't use Yonex Super Grap, or vice versa?
Hypothetical question: What if someone like Roger Federer decided that he liked Yonex Super Grap more than the Wilson Pro that he's currently using? Would Wilson just let him use Super Grap (except with the Wilson branded finishing tape), or would they try to accommodate him by altering the Wilson Pro to be more identical to Super Grap, or would they just say "too bad, this is all we got".
I realize that my questions might seem silly or naive, but I'm really curious about it.
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