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Kei Nishikori to Nike Vapor Tour
Kei Nishikori has been an Adidas Barricade tennis shoe user for as long as I’m familiar, but in recent footage found on the ATP World Tour website he is sporting red Nike Vapor Tour 9.5s. Nishikori is using a Wilson racquet and Uniqlo tennis wear. The Nike Vapor Tour 9.5 are one of my personal […]
Fabio Fognini to Hydrogen
Italian tennis player Fabio Fognini is moving from Adidas apparel to Italian brand skull-inspired brand Hydrogen. In the above pic he is posing with the Hydrogen founder Alberto Bresci, who closed 2016 with a 15% rise and a revenue of approximately 12 million euro. Fabio Fognini joins his friend Simone Bolelli and Nikoloz Basilashvili in the Hydrogen […]
John Peers to Wilson
Doubles professional John Peers has gone from his 18×20 patterned Prince TexTreme Tour 95 (which is a great racquet according to my humble opinion – read my review) to some kind of Wilson Pro staff 97 (could be a pro stock model like Wilson H22 or Wilson H19, but not sure yet). Looks like the stick has a […]
Babolat Pure Aero French Open Edition
Babolat usually releases special edition paint jobs of their most popular racquets for Wimbledon and French Open. This is 2017s Babolat Pure Aero French Open. What do you think of the design? Should the racquet companies keep making special paint jobs for the grand slams? The specs is exactly the same as the usual Babolat […]
Roger Federer at the Hopman Cup
The Roger Federer fan craze is bigger than ever and the Roger Federer brand is the number one in sports. Today he was back in action at the Hopman Cup and beat Daniel Evans in singles and won together with Belinda Bencic in the new format of mixed doubles (4-0 4-1). Here he is jumpman […]
Borna Coric using Wilson Tennis Racquets
I wrote a post about Borna Coric moving from one Yonex to another (the Yonex DR 98) here, but now it is official – Coric is moving over to Wilson Tennis. This was revealed on his Facebook page: What Wilson tennis racquet will he use and endorse? It’s potentially one of Wilson’s popular pro stock […]
New year, new gear
The ATP Tour version 2017 has kicked off in Doha, Brisbane and Chennai. First action I’ve seen is David Ferrer swinging his Babolat Pure Drive Plus against hothead Bernard Tomic using a Head Graphene XT Radical MP A (actually a HEAD TGT 260.5 pro stock model). Ferrer was steady while Tomic slightly less so and the Spaniard […]
Snauwaert Racquet and Strings Review
I’ve been trying out the new line of Snauwaert racquet and strings including the Vitas 100 and the Grinta 98 racquet as well as the Black Beam and White Beam Strings and I want to give my impression of this re-release of the Belgian Snauwaert brand. Snauwaert Grinta 98 specs Length 27 in Weight 315 […]
Babolat Pure Aero VS Tour
Tennis racquet names can twist your head at times. And they keep getting longer too. We had all gotten used to the Babolat Aero Pro line before Babolat decided to unify their bestsellers under the “Pure” series. So Rafael Nadal is now endorsing the Babolat Pure Aero (read about Rafa’s real racquet here). But then […]
The Best Racquet Smashes of All Time
Let’s ring in the new year with listing a few videos of the best racquet smashes of all time. Tennis can be a frustrating sport and these videos tell you exactly how frustrating it can be with epic racquet destruction footage of Marcos Baghdatis, Nick Kyrgios and even Roger Federer! First off, Marcos Baghdatis famously destroys […]