Choice of racquets/string - help please!

For fun a friend and I bid and won 5 unstrung racquets on ebay;

Yonex 23 VF
Yonex MP 28 ***
Yonex MP 23 ***
Yonex B460
Yonex B560

We only paid £11 each and will randomly decide who gets which MP racquet, looking at a Yonext chart the MP28 is fairly generic and the MP23 slightly more suited to doubles (lighter?). We only intend to string 2 racquets of the 5.

I would be very grateful if you guys can help me pick a "best of the bunch" and recomend string/tension. I've only brought factory tension before and I currently play with a Carlton Titanium Powershot raquet which is about 100g fairly stiff - factory strung.

My power isn't huge. I can comfortably clear base to base f/h but my b/h is weak base to mid court so I normally drop when caught on my back hand.

My friend is similar to me and has a wicked smash but again is lacking the strength on the back hand.

Cheers!!

 

After drawing lots I've got the MP28 and my friend the MP23. I'm still not sure about tension but may go for 22lb.

Can anyone recomend a hard wearing string that keeps tension well that is good for control but also power

PS should the MP racquets have a serial on them? The iso 23 does but the MP23/28 don't. Also the MP28 has some varnish peel

Thanks for any reply!

 

Doh - I didn't figure that low end yonex would be fakes

Oh well - I guess atleast they are still one piece carbon and the frames seem to be the correct weight. Maybe I can take a piccie to confirm the MP23 as fake?

 

I contacted Yonex to ask about missing serials but they couldn't give a definitive answer without inspecting the racquets. The helpful guy offered to check them but I would need to pay a £6 courier charge.

Nice support from Yonex - not many manufacturers would reply to my mail let alone have a website to look at.

Thanks for the words of reassurance Neosakai

I've read a few string reviews and I do want something fairly durable but I also want something interesting So My friend is most likely to have BG70PRO and I will go for BG88ti both strung at 23lb > 22lb.

 

The yonex guy mailed me back to advise me not to use the racquets for fear of them breaking and hurting someone... :crying: - how to knock the wind out of my sails!

 

The guy who has been emailing me is the Yonex UK Marketing Manager - I'm not sure why he couldnt say no serials = fake, it would save alot of unecessary postage cost!

 

Not yet - most of the players at my club use wilson, Browning and Carlton with a few other Yonex models.

Here is my effort at taking pictures of the MP23;

 

There weren't any serials on either MP23 or MP 28. I think the first picture is misleading - makes the racquet appear squashed.

 

:crying: damn ebay! :crying:

The racquet seems well made - do you think I will be a menace to other players if I get it strung?
lol I can always partner my mate who will have the other MP

 

Shame you brought an MP88 Togey - you could have brought a "cough" MP23 "cough" from me.