check out the butt cap of their racquets.. its the old style prestige.. its all painted... they all use the classic prestige or the pro tour 280, and agassi still uses the radical tour (the yellow and black one)... the reps told me.... a pro cant change racquets that often cuz once they use one they get too used to it. It is way too difficult for a pro to change.... they are just promoting the new products. If you dont believe me... next time look at the butt cap on agassi's racquet or kuertens racquet... you'll see its the old style head butt caps, not the new intelligence ones. Of course tennis-warehouse and head would say they use the new ones, because they want to sell the new product. I have a kuerten racquet with me from indian wells and its clearly not a I.Prestige. The grommet is slightly different (the classic style) and its outfitted with the original leather grip (which they stopped making in 95) plus it has the old style butt cap. A lot of pros do that, haas still uses the old 200G, hewiitt uses the RD-7, Roddick still uses the Pure Drive original (its justed painted like a team), venus and serena still use the classic hyper carbons, hingis still uses the Super RQ Ti 700, wut else, Sampras's new tour 90 is a painted 6.0 and so on. Pros cant just switch racquets if they've been playing with them for so long. It's like learning how to play left handed for you. Head is just doing this to boost sales on new product. Go pick up a prestige classic some day and hit with it, then you'll realize why the pros stiill use it over the i.prestige. My friend thats sponsered by babolat uses the Babolat Pure Control Std, but babolat sends him painted Pure Control TEAM midpluses... its all about promoting the new products. I talk to head reps so trust me i know what im talking about, and even if you were right, their racquets are weighted soo heavily that it would feel nothing like a normal classic prestige or an i.prestige. Pros dont just go to a store and buy a racquet string it up and hit with it. They get them sent directly from the company tottaly stripped, sometimes without even a handle (sampras does it like that) and then they go to their master racquet technicians, pop it on a DRC machine and completely customize their own racquet. When i'm sent a racquet from head, im sent one without a grip at all so i can lead base it. My racquet is completely differerent then a normal i.prestige. lets take pete sampras for instance, he is so specific about his racquets, that he HAS to use the original ST.VINCENT produced original 6.0's.... he doenst use any of the new 6.0's that you can buy in a store. He claims that they feel completely different.
Last edited by k M i n G on 04-11-2003 at 04:38 AM
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