hey guys in today's video i'm going to be testing four racquets so i'm going to start with a modern
racket is the babolat pure drive plus the racket of my choice it is the racquet that i play with
then i'm going to go back in time probably 20 years to the wilson hyper hammer 5.2 then i'm
going to go even further back in time and play a tiebreak with the dunlop 200 g and i'm going
to go all the way back to the aluminum wilson t 3000 racket and it's going to be interesting to
see whether my performance decreases and guys look normally i would mic myself and talk through the
points but i find that i lose my concentration and when i'm mic'ed so to make this racket test
in the most optimal way i'm actually not gonna be mic'ed during the points but after each
tiebreak i'm gonna give you a quick little review of each racket that i was playing with
okay that was exhausting 95 degrees 100 % humidity but i got to tell you the racket feels good i
can't say much about it it's my favorite racket ever i love it but close second to my favorite
record ever is the wilson hyper hammer 5.2 i'm going to play tiebreak with it next and it's going
to be interesting to see whether i can still play with this thing because it's a 95 square inch
it's a really old-school frame very thin beam so let's see what happens
i got accused of cheating last time
drop the hammer
it's hammer time baby come on
milan if i can't beat you with my my racket and my wilson hyper hammer i
lost both tiebreaks i don't know how in the world i'm gonna beat you with this. You never know coach.
here's the thing you can't play the modern game with this racket you just cannot so midway through
that tie break i had to switch my style to more of an old-school style do a lot of chipping switch
more to a one-handed backhand i come to the net a lot more because actually for the slice
and the volley this racket is spectacular everything else has to do with the modern game
it's a huge disadvantage now when i pulled out the john mcenroe serve that was going a little too
too much i went overboard on that one and when i missed it i went back to my old
service technique so this racquet is great for the old-school game
and not so much for the modern game now i suppose with the t3000 i'm going to start off again with
my regular game if it doesn't work i'm going to have to go to the jimmy connors style
so guys two major takeaways from today's video number one
i'm not doing this ever again in fact the dunlop 200g and the wilson t 3000 are going on my wall
these rackets are nice nostalgic pieces i'm quite a bit of a racquet collector but it's just
not possible to play the modern game with these rackets the racket heads are way too small the
materials are completely different especially we're talking about the t 3000 for that reason
i'm not going to do this ever again there's no point in trying to play with these rackets your
level goes down drastically when it comes to the wilson hyper hammer i felt like i played decent
with that one even though my level did drop as well because that technology is outdated by now
too and the racket head of 95 square inches is too small but for me this video perfectly illustrates
why modern tennis has developed into such a power topspin game it is one of the biggest reasons
for the way tennis is played today is the equipment that the players are using