So apparently she couldnt care less about the racket and pays more attention to how much bonus she gets, eh? Tbh, the 'sides play differently' marketing ploy is one of the worst I can remember. Not only is the difference minute (if there is one at all), it's also pretty useless tactically. Let's hope it doesn't mean the Arcsaber successor series will all have that useless gimmick...
Whatever reasons she switches; it may be due to earning wise as you've mentioned. Yea although on the marketing side Yonex may have overexaggerated slightly which they always do. However the racket itself is definitely not a failure as far as playability concerned if you compare to nanoray 700 series or jetspeed 8 and 9 series. It is actually comparable to Arcsaber 7 (one of the best Yonex ever made). I don't know whether you have tested one, if you have not, feel free to test one.
after looking pretty closely at the photos of lee chong wei's winning racket, you can see there's 4 sets of single pass grommets which means it is not a Duora (3 sets of single pass) but probably a Voltric ZF2 (potentially one with a bigger head?? As the Duora does have a bigger head than the ZF2.
Good spot! Admittedly I wasn't quite convinced LCW would use a D10. Doesn't make sense - pros want dependable consistency more than anything. Why would you go for a racquet you don't know how it will behave one shot to the next?
Looking at the LCW photo again, it seems you can see the string sticking out from the frame at the bottom. If it was a VZF2, then it would have been recessed into the frame. Could it be a ZF1 in disguise - and that he never actually moved onto a ZF2 in the first place?
At second glance im not sure whether he swapped midgame to another racquet. It looks a little strange to me. But he definitely started with a 7000S but he might have switched to another, yet unknown racquet during the game
thats why they looked so strange to me. But why was the one he started with different to the one after the first interval ?
The HX800 LTD comes in 2 variations. The first he used was the "power" one. The 2nd one is the "control" variant. Their paint job is pretty much the same colors but reversed.
Oh they popped up a couple of pages back in the victor thread. Looks like victor are going back to their old marketing pattern. I remember the SW33P/C and Artery Tec Ti 95P/C. They seem to be bringing back the concept with the HX800 and 500.
Kim Sarang? I guess he's just their latest guinea-pig for all rounders. MX80 > MX90 > MX80 > JS8PS(2013 HKO) > MX80 > HX800 > MX80 > JS9
Well to be fair. The only former extra stiff users I know to have switched to the JS10 are Kevin Sukarmuljo(MX80N), Shin Baek Cheol(SW35 > SW37 > TK9000) and Chen Hung Lin (SW35 > TK8000). These are all from memory though.
The TK series is rather, so at least for SBC the js10 was a natural change to a js10 coming from a tk9000. the switch from the sw37 wasnt though. im suprised as well, one of the fastest players + fastest racquet = speed even he cannot handle? i dont think so. maybe he is just one of these very very few people who dislike the JS10.
