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Mine is an Adidas GTX Pro Lendl racket. I still have one in perfect shape that I used in 1985 when I was a young pro and loved Ivan
Holding on to my st Vincent prostaff 85 forever.
The Dunlop Max 200G Golden Slam edition. Steffi Graf's 1988 commemorative racket.
Ncode Prostaff tour 90 - white and red color.
The Puma Boris Becker racket that was blue and red!
With the adjustable frame?
The Prestige Tour features a rubber collar located at the junction between the grip and the throat of the racket, which deteriorates and comes off over the years. However, the Prestige Classic has a hard plastic collar that is significantly more durable.
My holy grail is a Donnay Pro One in the original yellow and blue. I’m a huge Andre fan and it was the first racquet that I used that wasn’t a hand me down. I also look for Pro Staffs and older model Radicals. Last year I found the original Bumblebee Radical at a used sports store for only 28 dollars
The 04 Babolat Aero Pro Drive
To the racquets mentioned in the video I would add. ProKennex Black Ace 98 (80's) , Dunlop Max200G, Rossignol f200 (Mats Wilander), Wilson T2000 Jimmy Connors and of course the Dunlop Maxply Fort and the Wilson Jack Kramer were two of the most iconic wooden racquets.
I found Wilson Jack Kramer autograph from the dumpster back in the 2014. It's the excat same model that Dimitrov used in Tennis TV's Time travel challenge against Rublev in Monte Carlo last year. It's in good gondition strung with gut. It was thrown to dumster because it's old and they needed space for new equipment in our university's sports department. Found 7 other wooden rackets too.
Wilander was my fave player from the 80s. Desperately wanted the Rossignol F200. Couldn't afford it at the time
I also used the Puma Boris Becker racquet they showed. Misconception though was, like Harry said, that you could make it longer. You couldn't! You could only make it shorter. I played around with that screw in the buttcap a lot, and I remember a slight disappointment because of that. You could only make it longer after you had shortened it first! So it really was a useless 'feature'. You had to keep it at standard length, of course.
Mine is Wilson Prostaff 6.0 85, Head Prestige Flexpoint 93, and Dunlop Revelation 200g midplus.
head pro tour 630, head prestige pro from the mid-late 80's, babolat aero pro drive original version without cortex
Nice open stance right leg forehand discussion! 🎾
Yamaha Margaret Court Pro. No idea what the male counterpart was called but a 95 in head or slightly smaller. It was made from this space age material called FRP. You laugh but Fiber Reinforced Plastic was a major revelation for the industry in ohhh 1976 I'll say. I must say when you found the sweetspot the racket whipped the ball and vibrated in your hand as if to silently say hey buddy nice hit!, the challenge was Finding The Sweet Spot which was very tiny so that perfect hit didn't come that often. But what a thrill when you actually did find it. The ball actually exploded off the frame, not joking either it was very obvious the stealthy injection of pace was phenomenal indeed! I only wish I had one today now that my technique is far better than in 1976! 😂 Good show guys went through a set of remote batteries on rewind 🤭
How about the Snauwaert Egonom? Just look it up.
Pro staff tour 90 hyper carbon Prestige tour 600 from the 90s Pro tour 630
One I rarely saw in person was the Prince Boron Graphite. The one with 2 throat stabilizer bars. It was more expensive than the Prince Graphite back in the day. I think it was top of the line but I never saw anyone ever using one.
Those were like $500. That’s why you never see them around.
@@keithhayes844 Yup. I don't think there was a pro even using it and Prince was a big deal back then.
Wilson Pro Staff 85 St Vincent Wilson Pro Staff 88 Wilson Pro Staff 90 n-code or hypercarbon Babolat aero pro drive original Bancroft Borg wood
Not an expert but the original POG without grommets did have a head shape like the one shown. Guessing also the Heads have a plastic piece that wraps around top of handle. Have seen these on older Heads.
You have them right there in your store. The Djokovic, Federer, Nadal and Murray racquets used in the biggest matches it can’t get any better than that.
It's not his store .. it's Brad Gilbert's store.. google Brad Gilbert Tennis Nation in Greenbae, CA. Brad changed his staff.. that's why there's no more videos at the that store anymore.
Is Harry still working at BGTN?
@@jerome_morrowno
BTW, did you pick up the Fischer Pro 90? To go back to those good old days, and for Display, the Davis TAD classic rackets the adidas's Nastase rackets.
Remember the HEAD Prestige Classic 600? (speaking of holy grail racquets!...) The GRIP was finished at the top with a plastic kind of 'collar' (google a pic to see what I mean), that tapered down from the width of the grip to the width of the frame. I think they used that too for these racquets shown here by Harry and Rob. The owner probably messed around with the grip (many changed the 'suspension grip' out to normal pallets) and removed the collar in doing that.
I had two Chicago frame's (85inch); sold one and keep another hunging in the wall. I'm from Uruguay, South America.
Pro Staff 6.0 85 = Magic stick amazing racket
you didn't get Coach Rob a cup of coffee too?
Dunlop Black Max from earlier part of the 80s. 85 square inch head. Absolutely loved that racquet, which phased into some type of Silver version, then the 200G.
I am a big fan of Yonex racquets. Already have 3 DR98 (One still in wrappers), 1 DR100, years later I made RQ-190 UL my main (Got 3 from Japan) (Needles to say got 4 Max200g, Pro Staff 85, POG, etc) However the best all-round so far it is Head LM Radical MP.
Proudly still own 3 matching DRs in excellent condition 😅
Donnay Borg Pro.
the Streamline White Star wooden racket as used by Bunny Austin gets my vote, dont thinl ill find one in a car boot sale!
The Wilson profile 95 is my favorite racquet of all time.
1:05 Has Harry ever hit a FH where he wasn’t on the back foot? It’s all arm without any kinetic chain or weight transfer.
Slazenger ceramic
Pro Staff 6.1 95 with a 16x19 pattern. Make it happen, Wilson!
My best find was a Roland Garros Aero pro drive for $10. Fun racquet.
I have 2 Ezone DR 100’s one is the extended length. I too bought the garbage version they came out with after that. Sold it at a racquet shop to a random customer for $60.
Antelop. 1980s. Thin, graphite, rounded, black with blue and gold accents.
My holy grail is the the IG prestige MP!
Very forgiving racquet. Have two minty ones with practically the same weight sitting on the shelf.
‘Took me to a different level’. 🤔
The three rackets that I've been looking for a while now are the Head Flexpoint Radical, Babolat Pure Control Tour 95, and the Babolat Pure Drive 2006 with the cortex system
I have 6 brand new flex point radical MP if you want
I have two of those babolat pure drives in grip size 4 1/2
I have the pure drives before cortex and i tried a cortex and didnt think it was better. Mine is referred to as the swirly paint job pure drive
The Yonex Vcore 95D is pretty sought after.
I just sold one.
Boys... In my time the Pro Kennix Micro Ace was a doosie... Thin framed racket with a high number of thin strings. Can't remember how many strings it had but I remember how precise it was but being so thin the frames would crack when put under stress.... Thoughts ??
I passed on one in a Thrift store in perfect condition. Like new Highly doubt it had been used $7.95. Fanned on it because head size too small for me. 🤦
Just my take on your Dr 98 Harry. Friend bought one absolutely loved it he was swinging out of his shoes with it. So yes glorious racquet with kryptonite built right in for too many proud Dr 98 owners. ACUTE tennis elbow. This stick was made when frame dampening was the coming killer tech. I think Yonex went into full damage control REPUTATION WISE. The flaw caught Yonex off guard because symptoms showed up later as opposed to early. That's very likely why the replacement racket the next season was so poor. Yonex simply did not see the Dr 98 flaw coming so they were caught off guard with a replacement racket of quality. Years ago on one show you showed a particular fondness for the Head IX 6. Well consequently I got one in a thrift store for dirt cheap of course and I could not believe how wonderful the forehand played with a full Western grip. It was astonishingly easy! Unbelievable easy power deep into the court every time. Unfortunately it got stolen so I hunch somebody else knew the value! But it's high on my list for a thrift store capture again trust me! 👍👋🎾
every day we stray further from the Tennis Spin Shop
You know some people say poly goes dead, I think it can be the opposite depending on some type of poly strings, maybe some factory added a kind of chemical to make the string try to revert to its tension or become tighter when not playing so the string work itself to be tight back to it's tension or a tighter feel. if a poly goes dead, it wouldn't try to squeeze that prince graphite racquet, lol.
That’s not how physics works. What happens is as strings go dead they go brittle and cut into each other so it would appear to have a higher tension but it doesn’t. It’s just the strings stop moving.
Völkl Pro 30-T made in West Germany
Head prestige pro all brown
Pro Staff 6.0 95...you won't find that by accident probably.
You guys need to cut that poly on that prince graphite, lol. That string is squeezing the life out of em, probably been in 2-4 months.
The Prestige grip is definitely wrong.
No you are just bad at tennis and can't handle a racket like that