Professional players and their racquets

kenner30 said:
I thought li junhui was using 9000d. Doesn't look like he's using a yellow racquet. Anyone know which one he uses?


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He's using one of the 8000s atm. Can't recall exactly which. It has the orange head.

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Both Li Jun Hui and Liu Yu Chen switched between racket models more than any players I've seen. As far as I can remember, Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen switched a lot of rackets in their most competitive days but not as frequent as this chinese pair.
The racket that stand out the most to me used by the chinse pair are N55ii and N7ii pink, the rest I couldn't remember because they switched too often.
 
Ladies tension
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Quite shock with the tension they are using. Thought Yamaguchi was around 28 last seen her racket. Cannot believe Takahashi was using this tension as she's More a backcourt player. Maybe she switch to nf800 which is much stiffer than her previous duora 7, hence the need to reduce the tension to align with her current nf800 stiffness. Nevertheless due respect to the Olympics champion in whatever tension she use.
 
this isn't gonna change anything but just saying that it really vindicates what I heard of as rumor back then in texts.. didn't post because well, it's text not pic so can't give credibility to anything. Loud shouting is still less effective than black and white, after all.

Few years ago actually I seen this number floating around (2016) that
Akane on vt70etune was 25lbs 66um and Ayaka on BG80P on her duo7. Lol back then I kinda believed too since the duora frame is really soft. Especially the 7.

I guess 24x26 gives 25? Lol

Ayaka's drop shot on that tension is wow considering the lack of control given by the stringbed...
 
Coolkas said:
I even strung mine at 27-28, while my skill is way way way below them, pathetic me :eek:
Perhaps i should lower the tension more
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But tension is a personal thing....

And theirs are done by different stringers... end result feel differs.

Just because they like fried chicken in USA doesn’t mean I should eat the same in Asia, for example...
 
Really funny that some get here a meltdown, because female pro players use a lower tension than they order from their friend Crankjoe Flyclamp. Also funny that some think that pro players need to lower tension because they pick too stiff rackets. Just remember that professional badminton had a time with 21lbs climbing ropes. I suspect that a huge amount here play too stiff rackets and too high tension here or they all hit more clean with faster swing than top female players.
 
"Tension is not proportionate to our play level" and this is a fact that should be repeated regardless of how many people were surprised by it.
We can play with whatever tension that is comfortable or for some, feels superior to ourselves. At the end of the day, not every game is about the scoreboard. If someone is happy with playing overly high tension resulting in poor performance or body injury, there's nothing we can say to change their mind. However as a responsible community, it is important to reduce the misconception of the relationship between tension and play level. Remember kids, high tension does not equal high level of play.
 
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