<html>I'm wondering what is considered the best badminton racquet for any price, for someone who likes to do overheard smashes, and put a lot of power into the shot. I know that with tennis, a more expensive racquet is not nessescarily better, $300 racquets are for beginners (that want a great beginers racquet) but they dont care about improving their skill, they just want to play, and $150-$180 racquets are for pros. I have heard the Winex T-20, and the Yonex Ti-10 are very good, any opinions?
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Huang
06-04-2000, 08:54 AM
<html>I'd go to Yonex's Ti-10. Its a wonderful racket for aggressive singles play. Extremely stiff and head heavy.<p>Personally, I think Winex rackets are generally inferior to Yonex rackets. Many features are simply cosmetic. One example is Winex's "Mighty Power Frame" which is basically just printed there to look like Yonex's Muscle Power Frame, a design that eliminates sharp angles in stringing so as to allow for higher stringing tensions.<p>I've used a couple of rackets in the aggressive category and only Ti-10 impresses me. Both the Winex T-10 and T-20 are pretty good, but I feel they leave something to be desired.
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<html>I have been playing badminton for only about a year, but I'm pretty good at tennis, so I've gotten the hang of it very easily, and I have been starting to get pretty good. I know that this racquet (TI -10) is one of the best racquets that you can buy, but in hindsight, it would have helped me if i used my current tennis racquet back when I started playing tennis. Knowing this, would this be an alright racquet for me?
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Cheung
06-06-2000, 05:42 PM
<html>Another angle to the argument.....<p>Many of the top players seem to keep changing racquets - maybe every couple of yrs. Some are still using racquets that are difficult to get in the shops because of being old models.<br>I heard of one ex-Hong Kong ladies player who has now become a coach - she kept being asked what's a good racquet to get. She didn;t know because her sponsor kept giving her the latest models all the time and she didn;t bother to look at the model number.<p>So best racquet?..The best answer was in your first post.....Not the one that's most expensive.<p>Regards<p><p>: I have been playing badminton for only about a year, but I'm pretty good at tennis, so I've gotten the hang of it very easily, and I have been starting to get pretty good. I know that this racquet (TI -10) is one of the best racquets that you can buy, but in hindsight, it would have helped me if i used my current tennis racquet back when I started playing tennis. Knowing this, would this be an alright racquet for me?<p>
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Marcel
06-07-2000, 10:14 PM
<html>Go to the shop and try some, ask if you can play some time with it and then get the one you like best. Expensive or not.....
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Byro-Nenium
10-26-2000, 09:28 AM
i agree with Matt on this one..... Winex is a basically just "imitation" of Yonex rackets. If anyone who reads this ever take a look at Fleet's Ti-99. Its EXACTLY the same as the Yonex Ti-7. Well not exactly but its got the same paint job but with a different brand and model name. Its also much more flexible.
The Yonex Ti-10 is a great racket. Excellent for smashing and finesse. The Winex T-10 is a copy of the Yonex Ti-10. I mean everyone can see that from the Muscle/Mighty power frame thing and the paint job. But hey, some people can't afford the Yonex rackets....
Imitations are sometimes pretty good. I used a Winex Aerodynamic 200 for about 1 season after my coach gave it too me. Its an imitation of the Yonex Aerotus something..... not sure... Its pretty good though