I'm trying to list down all the good badminton players as well as what racquet they are currently using. If anyone can list some players and their racquets on this thread it would be greatly appreciated!! Thanx a lot!!
Re: Players and their racquets Man there was a exahustive list that Kwun and the other prof Racket watchers posted abt a couple of months back. so do a search mate!
Re: Players and their racquets I shall post what Kwun had written sometime back. I have it saved on my hard disk. Author: kwun Date: 06-25-01 05:07 i have started compiling the rackets that the pros uses. anyone have any additions? India: Gopi uses Iso 600 Power Aparna popat Uses ISo 800 China: Chen Hong : cab20 Ji Xinpeng : cab20 Xia Xuanze : cab20 Sun Jun : Boron-2 Chen Rui : Ti-10 Gong Zhichao : TiSP SR - Iso900 SR Gong Ruina : MP100 - Ti-10 Zhou Mi : Ti-10 Dai Yun : Ti-10 Huang Sui : Ti-10 Gao Ling : Iso800 Huang Nanyan : Ti-10 Yang Wei : Ti-10 Wei Yili : Iso800 Zhang Ziwen : Iso800 Zhang Jun : Iso800 Zhang Wei : ? Ge Fei : Iso800 Gu Jun : Iso800 Denmark : Peter Gade : Slim-10 Camilla : Ti-10 Soggard : Slim-10 Olsen : Forza something Indonesia : Taufik : MP77 - cab20 Hendrawan - Iso800 Sigit - MP100 - Ti-10 Candra - MP100 - Ti-10 Tony - MP100 - Ti-10 Halim - MP77 Yuli Mafuah - ? Lidya Djaelawidjaya - Ti-10 Trikus Heryanto : Ti-10 - Iso800 Vita Marissa - cab20 (?) Korea : Kim DM : Ti-10 Ha Tae Kwon : Iso800 Ra Kyung Min : Ti-10 Lee Kyung Won : Ti-10 Lee Dong Soo : Ti-10 Yoo Yong Sung : cab20 Lee Hyun Il : Ti-10 Song Seung Mo : Ti-10 Kim Ji Hyun - ? Jun Jae Youn - Ti-10 Malaysia : Roslin : Iso Ti SP rest of Malaysia : Gosen.
Re: Players and their racquets Think there should be some minor amendments to the following as far as I know.. India: Gopi uses Iso 600 Power Aparna popat Uses ISo 800 China: Chen Hong : cab20 > Ti-10 Ji Xinpeng : cab20 Xia Xuanze : cab20 >Mp-77 Sun Jun : Boron-2 Chen Rui : Ti-10 Gong Zhichao : TiSP SR - Iso900 SR > add Ti-10 ( She switched between the Ti-10 and the TiSP SR between 2 tournaments ) Gong Ruina : MP100 - Ti-10 Zhou Mi : Ti-10 Dai Yun : Ti-10 >MP-100 Huang Sui : Ti-10 Gao Ling : Iso800 Huang Nanyan : Ti-10 Yang Wei : Ti-10 Wei Yili : Iso800 Zhang Ziwen : Iso800 ( Is there such a player ? Thought it is "Zhang Jiawen" ? ) Zhang Jun : Iso800 >Ti-10 Zhang Wei : ? > Ti-10 Ge Fei : Iso800 Gu Jun : Iso800 Denmark : Peter Gade : Slim-10 > MP-77 Camilla : Ti-10 Soggard : Slim-10 Olsen : Forza something Indonesia : Taufik : MP77 - cab20 Hendrawan - Iso800 Sigit - MP100 - Ti-10 Candra - MP100 - Ti-10 Tony - MP100 - Ti-10 Halim - MP77 Yuli Mafuah - ? Lidya Djaelawidjaya - Ti-10 Trikus Heryanto : Ti-10 - Iso800 Vita Marissa - cab20 (?) Korea : Kim DM : Ti-10 Ha Tae Kwon : Iso800 Ra Kyung Min : Ti-10 Lee Kyung Won : Ti-10 Lee Dong Soo : Ti-10 Yoo Yong Sung : cab20 Lee Hyun Il : Ti-10 Song Seung Mo : Ti-10 Kim Ji Hyun - ? Jun Jae Youn - Ti-10 Malaysia : Roslin : Iso Ti SP rest of Malaysia : Gosen.
Re: Players and their racquets Thanx for the list! It really helps. By putting together this list and some of my own, I have come to the conclusion that the Yonex T-10 is the most populer racquet among professional players! I thought that it would have been the Yonex MP 77.
Re: Players and their racquets This might be a suefull information for u guys... Vita Marissa : Cab 21 Yuly Marfuah : Cab 20 Most other indonesian juniors players are using cab 20. Cab 20 (green colour) is the standard racket for PBSI (contract with yonex). The senior player such as Halim, Tony candra sigit....they are offered to use MP 100, Ti 10, Ti 8...etc. Minarti timur: iso swing power 900 Bambang Suprianto: Ti 10 Nova Widianto: Cab 20 Malaysian team: Chan Chong Ming : cab 21 with Gosen Strings. Wong Chong Haan: cab 21 with Gosen strings Lee Wan Wah/Chong Tan Fook: Iso 800 with Gosen strings. Denmark: Peter Gade: Iso 10 Slim Korea: Ha Tae kwon: iso 800 Kim dong moon: Ti 10 Lee Hyun ILL: Ti 10 Ra Kyung Min: Ti 10
I thought i'd revive this thread. As someone has posted this question a little while back. does anyone have any updates?
U gave me a scare. Suddenly i find YOgesh (as i had changed my name to yogi for the forum purposes) writting in this forum. I did not realise from the outset that it was a old thread.
Some Danes & Swedes Jens Eriksen: Forza Ti Tech 1400 Peter Rasmussen: Carlton AS-1 Lars Paaske: Yonex MP-77 Kenneth Jonassen: Fukuda (don't know which one) Kasper Oedum: Forza Ti Tech 1400 Anders Boesen: Forza Ti Tech 1400 Mette Schjoldager: Yonex Ti-10 Martin Lundgaard-Hansen: Yonex Ti-10 Jim Laugesen: Yonex Ti-10 Rasmus Wengberg: MP-100 Marina Andrievskaya: MP-100
Didn't Hendrawan switch to MP100? I thought, I had seen him playing with the MP100 during the Copenhagn Masters end of last year. And what about Gopi? Did he already switch back from MP70 to his iso600? Honestly I think, that the MP70 hype with all this news, that players like Gade, Hidayat, Xuanze, Gopichand would switch to it, was just made up by yonex, to boast the MP70 . In case of the MP100 their marketing strategy worked out really successful with Chandra & Tony winning the Olympics. But which pro has made his decision for the MP70, because he actually liked this racket? Gade is still playing his good 'ol slim10, Taufik did always switch back to his cab20 tour in crucial situations, Xia is still playing cab20. And have a look at the recent Japan Open. It seems that yonex has paid a lot of pros to play with the new MP90 right when it's introduced to the public. I always loved to play with the same rackets like the pros, but regarding yonex's marketing tricks, it's really getting hard work to keep up right now...
Looks like Eriksen switched to Yonex. I just read an article in the malaysian online paper "thestar", where a picture clearly showed the yonex logo on his racket's strings. But maybe he's just switched his sponsor and is still playing with his forza racket.
Martin Lundgaard-Hansen used an Isometric Ti Swing Power at the Thomas Cup match against China. Also Jens Erikson has switched to Yonex now.
yogi the nic switch, is it dual personalities? or to forget an evil past? kidding aside, i think there is no advantage of using iso or mp by the pros. they can hit the sweetspot everytime so the big area of iso and mp just adds to air resistance. The bigger area do help in doubles when returning super fast smashes.
Mia Audina Mia is currently under contract with Winex and she uses the Ti Swing Power which Winex has also released limited editions (two versions) known as the Ti-01 Limited Edition (MA and MS which are equivalent to the Ti SP SA and the Ti SP SS).
Jens Erikssen Well spotted, Olli. Jens has been a Forza player for a looong time, so I was quite surprised to see that he is on a new contract with Yonex. I guess that Yonex finally offered him a check that was fat enough... I wonder what triggered them? He's been top 10 in both doubles and mixed for years, so why sign him now and not earlier? Hmmm... maybe it's because his partners, Martin Lundgaard-Hansen in doubles and Mette Schjoldager in mixed also have Yonex contracts.
Also another thing, Halim and Trikus Haryanto are both using Cab rackets now. COuldn't tell exactly which 1. But Halim is no longer using the MP77. Similarly Trikus is no longer using his Ti-10
Probably the Cab20 muscle, as all other cab rackets have already been available before and it wouldn't make any sense, if they suddenly switched to a racket, with which they could have already played before.
How come there are so little pro players using Ti Swing Power? seems like many of them like to use either ti10 or Cab20...
