Yunlop strikes again - Alycia Parks racquet

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WTA 125K Andorra. Alycia Parks aterriza en el top100

Ya conocemos a la campeona de la primera edición del WTA 125K de Andorra, un evento donde se ha confirmado una semana más que Alycia Parks está ya preparada...
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Photo in link says it all. It's definitely a Yonex painted to look like a Dunlop. They did this for Wang Qiang when Dunlop signed her up to endorse the CX200 a couple of years ago, and now they are doing it again with Parks, who just won her first WTA title (a smaller WTA125K in Andorra). Alycia used the VCORE Pro prior to signing with Dunlop.
 
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vsbabolat said:
I tend to think it’s her and her people doing the painting and not Dunlop.
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Do you know if most of the blackouts we are where players are using other brands (Rublev a couple of years ago for example) are having them backed out themselves, or provided by the manufacturer?
 
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This is quite funny. If it's Dunlop, they need to have some self-respect. If it's Parks' team, then I don't see how Dunlop is ok with it? Unless this is just part of the contract now.
 
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TennisHound

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lacoster said:
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WTA 125K Andorra. Alycia Parks aterriza en el top100

Ya conocemos a la campeona de la primera edición del WTA 125K de Andorra, un evento donde se ha confirmado una semana más que Alycia Parks está ya preparada...
www.puntodebreak.com www.puntodebreak.com

Photo in link says it all. It's definitely a Yonex painted to look like a Dunlop. They did this for Wang Qiang when Dunlop signed her up to endorse the CX200 a couple of years ago, and now they are doing it again with Parks, who just won her first WTA title (a smaller WTA125K in Andorra). Alycia used the VCORE Pro prior to signing with Dunlop.
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That’s hilarious, lol
 
Lefty78

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taylor15 said:
Do you know if most of the blackouts we are where players are using other brands (Rublev a couple of years ago for example) are having them backed out themselves, or provided by the manufacturer?
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Manufacturers primarily provide blackouts when the racquet is a prototype or pre-production.

Players primarily do it themselves (their team) when they're unhappy with the racquet they're contracted to endorse. Racquet contracts typically have a clause where a player can use a competitors product but not their logos/cosmetics.

Individual circumstances may vary.

The rare circumstance when a player has frames painted to look like another make/model is usually because they want the endorsement $ but don't like the racquet. Ex Rafter with Prince painted as Dunlop. Rafter had that done, not Dunlop.

I can't recall offhand a manufacturer painting a competitors racquet as their own model since Head sued Dunlop over Safin's Prestige.
Wang Qiang's "Yunlop" for example, was a Dunlop produced copy of a Yonex. It was NOT a Yonex painted as Dunlop, no matter mow many fools on this board try to tell you otherwise.
 
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