Wilson Blade with Heart Dampener Pros

[innoVAShaun]

Please post pictures, add any players, and/or discuss any pro players that use a Wilson Blade and heart shaped vibration dampener. Past or present.

I'm putting this list together for my younger son. Ever since he started using the Wilson Blade 100 in August 2024, he's been obsessed about using the Wilson (and other) heart vibration dampeners.

 

[innoVAShaun]

 

[innoVAShaun]

 

[innoVAShaun]

 

[innoVAShaun]

 

[innoVAShaun]

 

[innoVAShaun]

 

[innoVAShaun]

 

[am1899]

Lol it’s hilarious to me that Borna is in this club.

 

[am1899]

 

[aus89]

Lol it’s hilarious to me that Borna is in this club.

he is a rizzmaster

 

[mpournaras]

Why is this particular combo so popular?

 

[innoVAShaun]

I guess it's because it's a Wilson racquet plus a Wilson dampener.

Plus you put this guy on the packaging and of course they'll sell...

 

[innoVAShaun]

Nowadays, they're hard to come buy as they can only be found on 3rd party sites or in the 100pc Wilson Box O' Fun:

 

[am1899]

 

[Seth]

Heart dampener stock is rising. Reminds me of when everyone wanted the clover dampener that Delpo used.

 

[MeatTornado]

What a bizarrely consistent trend. How did anyone even pick up on this?

 

[innoVAShaun]

Peng Shui BITD:

 

[Bill Lobsalot]

Man, someone should have told Nole and Vamos. They could have played the women’s tour and won way more grand slams!

I rest my case. Alacaraz - no dampner. Fed - no Dampner. ( I know, some people like them. I use one)

 

[innoVAShaun]

What a bizarrely consistent trend. How did anyone even pick up on this?

My son got a Wilson Blade for his birthday last year. We went to a tennis club and he saw they had to Wilson Box O' Fun at the desk. He asked me to buy both heart dampener colors at the time.

Fast forward to now. He literally asks me. "Dad, what pros use the Wilson Blade and have the heart dampeners?" I quickly replied with Badosa and Sabalenka. Then he says, "I wonder what other pros use them too."

Great

for a thread lol.

 

[wang07]

 

[lidoazndiabloboi]

interesting, she went away from the dampener. Looking back, it happened when she switched to the v9 pj at the beginning of 2024.

 

[am1899]

I rest my case. Alacaraz - no dampner. Fed - no Dampner. ( I know, some people like them. I use one)

By your logic, I too am a girl. (Shhh, don’t tell me wife).

 

[EggSalad]

Why is this particular combo so popular?

This thread has blown my mind. I had no idea it’s so common.

 

[taylor15]

I use a blade and a heart dampener, so does my wife. It starter last summer when it’s all I had and it stuck. Mine is the red glitter.

 

[longtimelurker]

I play with my heart so the energy makes its way down to the hand and racquet, the whole frame becomes all heart

 

[Bill Lobsalot]

I guess it's because it's a Wilson racquet plus a Wilson dampener.

Plus you put this guy on the packaging and of course they'll sell...

And he didn't use a dampener.

 

[innoVAShaun]

 

[innoVAShaun]

Kessler

 

[innoVAShaun]

My son pointed out that Princeton Women's #2 had the combo also...

 

[PCunique]

This thing got quite pricey where I live. Also the Luxilon purple O ring which is used by so many pro.

 

[innoVAShaun]

Guo Hanyu

 

[heavyD]

It's probably because those "W" dampers are two wide to properly fit string patterns that aren't really open in the middle. I see people using them vertically as it's the only way to fit them decently.

 

[Seth]

I love this trend. It’s like when half of the 2000s French dudes used the Tecnifibre VibraClip.

 

[innoVAShaun]

Lyudmyla Kichenok

 

[am1899]

Lauren Davis: