Professional players and their racquets

Discussion in 'Badminton Rackets / Equipment' started by Josh, Oct 13, 2001.

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  1. riffsuad

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    What is ko sung hyun new racket which he use in china open?
     
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    Yeah, I was just thinking that myself. Maybe they were listening to me and have scrapped the whole idea of calling a new racket the 'Thruster'?
     
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    i think it not be that bad of publicity to call it the thruster. I know I would always make reference to the name...... Relevant note I hope it is a new heavy victor racket.
     
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    Most of us are waiting for the spec whether it is a head heavy or not
     
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    It will be - it's KSH using it! :D
     
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    BS12 above is of course used by LYD, just a closeup so you groupies can copy his grip ;)

    Actually ... :D, one of the Japanese ladies still uses a Carbonex 23 (Suetsuna) but it has only been discontinued in Japan a few years ago ...

    Could be just a local player using her own stock ;)
     
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    MP99 is still more available than AT700. The AT700 is one of the most sought-after rackets there is, more so than the older Ti-10s. That's partly because a large fan base swears there's no other racket out there that's just as good in all aspects...hocum imop^^
     
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    And the point ... ? He is assuming that the player must be sponsored by Yonex and they are supplying the MP99's, which imo is not very likely nor that any distributor still has stock. Stores is another matter and even there I don't come across (m)any ...
    Of course there should be more MP99's available than original colour AT700's as it was still produced in 2008 versus 2006 for the AT700.
    I do recall seeing someone with MP99 yes but with a Victor outfit on the Taiwanese team and that is probably who is referred to here ... Funnily enough they are MP99's with blue Victor butt caps :D.
     
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    this lady must be extremely fussy to insist on mp99. as a pro, there r so much to choose from.
     
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    My point was that Yonex has/had some left over. Although they seem to be clearing their stock, a few shops here got the offer to buy more MP99s which had been in store in Japan. No idea what the situation with the Taiwanese player is, but there are several players with separate clothing and racket sponsors.
     
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    Yeah. MP99 still can be purchased in a wallet friendly fashion, as to 1st gen AT700, the owner of these rackets mostly give ridiculous price tag which kind of informing buyers that sellers themselves do not want to sell it.
     
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    Actually not that long ago ... :D

    As far as I am aware, the "LATEST" (I hate to use the word LAST, as who knows, that a future champion may emerge swearing on Cab only ;) !) top professional to use a Carbonex (Cab21) is Wong Choong Hann (ex-World No 1 and MAS) and his last professional standing was no. 44 (Dec 22, 2011) - check wikipedia.
     
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    Did he ? :confused:

    That will really screw up Li-Ning's marketing programme !!! :p
     
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    LoL. WCH uses Dunlop. LD still didn't use the N90II....ever.

    :D
     
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    Joachim Fischer uses Babolat at Hongkong Open 2012. I don't know what type.
     
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    Hoping that Babolat sales increase.
     
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    I kept looking around and nobody has a definitive answer whether pros rackets are different from those commercially sold.... I.e. the zforce lcw uses n e zforce we see in shops... How about limited editions? If there's is any difference in quality for normal rackets dat pros use n we use, what if I buy, for say, zslash taufik? Will the quality will be same or different as the one he uses? Any ideas? Thx.
     
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    I thought i have mentioned it before.

    The answer is yes and no.
    Yes, if they are using rackets with racket code which are sold commercially for specific region, for example SP, JP, DX, etc.
    No, if they are using rackets with racket code which are not sold commercially, for example KP,CP, etc.


    Pro rackets that i have tested are different than the one readily available for mass market.
    I have tested so far for Yonex, and Victor, have not tested for Lining and Kason, although i feel it would be different from the one in the market. The reason of why i could not enforce this answer for all is that, i am only comparing one sample of pro racket, let's say MX80 with 2 samples of ordinary MX80, thus the probability of error would be high. With that said, i strongly believe that pros are using different racket with ours, mostly. There are pros who still use Yonex SP code which is the code distributed by Sunrise for South Pacific region though.
     
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    @Licin thx for repeating cos I can't really see ur comment thru 90 pages in this thread lols. So how about limited ed? A zslash taufik sp vs national team one? Still different? Cos limited eds can be slightly different from the normal ed, because the players want it tailored to them meaning that some specs are tweaked. So I wonder whether these tweaked version still has the difference when it comes to comparing a commercial vs pro.
     

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