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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It doesn't help that many players are using full beds of poly and arm-killing Babolat racquets. I just cut some strings out of my racquet and maybe I never noticed before but it kind of hit me how hard poly strings are as they permanently retain the bending shape around the grommet as there's barely any elasticity. Alcaraz and Novak for example both have had recent bouts with tennis elbow.
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I just wanted to re-visit this post by EE as I recently acquired a Babolat Pure Aero VS 2020 edition (i.e. the model that Carlitos and Holger Rune supposedly use) and I have tried it a couple of times and it is a very nice racquet, but I also experienced some elbow and shoulder pain afterwards. I was told it was strung with Tecnifibre Black Code which is allegedly a very soft poly (I don't know the tension), but I've leaving it in the bag and have gone back to using my tried and true Yonex Vcore 95's.
Also, for Mother's Day, I surprised my wife with a Prince Phantom Pro 100, this racquet is very unique with a very thin beam (16.5 mm in the throat) and she loves it. Man, she was hitting some very nice groundies yesterday with it.
Anyway, this concludes my racquet talk for today lol.