I believe most of the players are wearing their normal shoes. I believe only Gao Ling is wearing the new 100s.
Probably they don't find it comfortable and have not used to the new shoe long enuff. Thus they resort back to their old faithful before using the new ones. Most of them still prefer the SHB99 Limited / SHB99 models actually.
are some of the players pressured to wear certain shoes to boost marketing and sales, or are they given the freedom to choose?
That makes sense. However, I would have figured Yonex had given them the shoes long in advance to break in...thanks for the info, Sir.
They only give them when they arrive all England. In fact Chen Yu is using AT900 Power, Lee Chong Wei using the At900 Technique.
what, that's quite strange, does that mean they don't have enough time to practice with the new racquets? i know it prolly affects them less than it affects us, but that's kinda strange, surely they would have given them the racquets at least a couple of weeks in advance.
They did have time to get used to the rackets and shoes. Most are given their Kits when they arrive. But its their pregorative weather want to use it at that time or not..
In picture #8, it looks like Chen Yu is using the AT700. Around the head is silver then red and then black. The AT900P is silver on top then black and then red. I'm not sure if you guys know what I'm talking about, but I pretty sure that in that picture, he's using the the AT700 with the new paint scheme.
