this happens to other brands too rite>?

except for pacific wit their zero tolerance quality

tt warrior eh jules?

that one is a nice racket. kolor oso nice

selling per piece or both has to go?

Per piece is alright I suppose.

Yhaaa Wilson QC is terrible........however I can easily mod the racket to suit my exact preference, so far so good, balance, weight, and swing weight are pretty close, if not exact.

Anyone doing a bulk for midwestsport?

Paint job ftw!

Wah inv what are you trying to hint....if you wanna buy the Prince....I think vobs can offer you a demo session lah.....wouldn't hurt and then later post a mini review, who know's, someone may just order a racket or two from vobs,after reading the review.

btw thats Sam Querrey's racket lol

haha.. not hinting anything la.. was reading the stringing thread in tw forums and stumbled upon this pic..

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Added on March 16, 2011, 6:59 pmJames Blake's sticks..





Those are not dunlops right? what sticks are they? Looks like one of those HEAD rackets..

This post has been edited by inv: Mar 16 2011, 07:01 PM

From what I know its a custom racquet made for him by Dunlop using a custom mold that is similar to the mold used for the Tecnifibre T-Fight 320/335.
Hahaha and he is down to his last 3 rackets........

Check it out yourself:

official link:http://www.bnpparibasopen.org/News/Tennis/2010/Interview-Transcripts/Interview-Transcripts/Extra-Column/James-Blake-First-Round.aspx
Q. Kind of a tough situation if I have it right with your racquets. What's up? What's happening?

JAMES BLAKE: Oh, man. I don't know. I don't even it would be too long of a story to get into. My racquets feel great right now. I don't have that many of them left, so I'm hoping that I can find a way to get more of them and find someone that can make a racquet exactly the way I like it.

It seems like I think it's just the modernization of the game that the racquets that are being made now don't feel the same as the ones when I started on tour. When I started, I think it was different materials. Using different materials, to me, feels a little more hollow, tinny. I guess the materials that are used are lighter and more powerful. For me it just doesn't it doesn't have the same feel. I never thought I was picky about racquets until I went through this situation where I'm trying to find one that's just like mine, and no one has been able to do it.

I'm really looking forward to putting this behind me and hopefully someone being able to make a racquet that I can use. We'll see if that happens soon.

Q. Do you treat your racquets sort of like a Stradivarius?

JAMES BLAKE: Yes, I do. They get treated very well nowadays. I don't want any of them breaking. You won't see me throwing racquets. I might hit a ball, I might yell and scream, but I'm not going to be throwing racquets. It will be a weird feeling, because I haven't done that for a long time, to be able to have a bad practice and actually smash a racquet, because I haven't done that in years.

Q. They just can't find the right materials?

JAMES BLAKE: Um, yeah, I think that's what it is. You know, I'm I just go by what it feels like, and, you know, all the racquet technicians and the people at Dunlop and any other companies, they tell me what their opinions are and everything. They've got this material in it and this stiffness and this swing weight and this and that, and, you know, all I go by is what it feels like.

I put in it in my hand, and if it doesn't feel good and I don't feel like I can compete with it, then that's all I go by. In my gut it feels like it's the material. They can make it the same weight, same balance, the same mold, the same everything. But if it doesn't feel the same, I only my only possibility in my head is that it's the material.

Q. How many do you have? How many racquets do you have left?

JAMES BLAKE: Not enough. I got three.

Q. Really?

JAMES BLAKE: Yep.

Q. You need to take a different racquet on the side, so if you want to smash it you can walk over...

JAMES BLAKE: I'd feel a little silly to do that. I'll leave that to the juniors. I used to do that when I was about 14, 15 years old.

Q. When you say it doesn't feel right, what is it that doesn't feel right?

JAMES BLAKE: I think the new material feels hollow, like tinny, and so it doesn't it's hard to describe. That's another problem is because I have a tough time articulating exactly what it is.

But the ball, it feels like it jumps off, and then it still it still doesn't fly out. Like some of the ones that have a lot of power, when I hit it solid, with my racquet I feel like I hit it solid and it's going to drop down in the court, with the new material I feel like it goes a little further out and goes flying out.

It's a material that to me it feels like it still jumps off. I don't have to create all my own pace, but it still dips down and has that spin that adds to it. I'm sure it's a tough combination for a company to make, and I'm finding that it's really, really tough for them to make.

Q. Where does the string fit into this?

JAMES BLAKE: The string, I've been using Luxilon since 2002 probably, and that's to me, it doesn't get any better than that.

Until someone puts a string in my hand that convinces me hands down it's better... Because I still remember the first day I used Luxilon. I put it on my racquet and I said, I'm switching. There was no doubt about it. It's so much better, and it feels it just feels so good.

Because you can swing hard and it and the ball, just it grabs. The string grabs it. And I've said it before. I think that's been the biggest change in the game in the last 15, 20 years.

The reason for sort of the death of the serve and volleyers is you're absolutely able to rip those returns with this string and you're able to put it down at people's feet so much easier. You're able to control the ball with power better than you can with, in my opinion, any other string.

So until someone can show me something that feels better than that, I don't see myself changing string.

This post has been edited by praetorian: Mar 16 2011, 07:20 PM

By just looking at the throat of the 2 rackets, i would have guessed a k6.1 90 & 95...

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Added on March 16, 2011, 8:10 pmPrae: lucky for you there are still tons of k6.1 lying around... n I still have 2..

This post has been edited by inv: Mar 16 2011, 08:10 PM

Hahhaha hell no, K6.1 tour the throat the part of the triangle one of the beams of the k6.1 is thicker for sure and the triangle is more like a typical triangle, this one the triangle is too sharp.....

You have 2 more, cool........dowan too mention my secret number :-p

phew -.-
guess my racket isnt a crack but the there are some dirt stuck in the paintjob. 300 tour, the plastic sticker ends at 3-9 o'clock of the carbon, and i play on rainy day that day, i guess the mud stucked at the sticker when i clean the stick up.
scare the shit out of me.

Don't u guys think wilSon is strewing themselves off?? !! As babol is catching up them with tour n racket quality. They shud buckle up instead of strewing up.... Sigh, I see babol to no 1 in 5 yrs

TK,


Long time didn't hear fr u.
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TK,

U go to which part of Meru makan what?
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I hardly eat there cox all industrial area I know kapar baby shark is famous....

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