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1. #BABOLAT PURE STRIKE WHO USES FULL#
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#BABOLAT PURE STRIKE WHO USES PROFESSIONAL#

The racket is a touch softer than previous versions, bringing it more in line with the old school Pure Storm that so many recreational and professional players loved in the early 2000s.

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It is still recognisable as a Pure Strike, but is more reminiscent of the Pure Control series of rackets that the French brand brought out over a short period of time. This is the most performance focussed racket in the line up, sporting a smaller 97sq in head size and a more striking design.īabolat have gone for a more stealthy look with the new version of the Pure Strike, which is a stark contrast to their signature white and orange design language. Whereas the standard Pure Strike has either 16 main and 19 cross strings, or 18 mains and 20 crosses, the Pure Strike VS has a 16/20 pattern which Babolat’s research and testing showed was the best combination to create the optimum balance between control and power.The new Pure Strike VS is a racket we have been very much looking forward to testing here at The Tennis Bros. One brand ambassador has described it as “the most beautiful racquet Babolat has developed for many years.”Īnother visual feature is the string pattern. Like the Pure Drive and Pure Aero VS models, it is a shiny chrome, but with the distinctive red of the standard Pure Strike colour scheme appearing as two stripes on the chrome. Visually, the Pure Strike VS will be as striking as its stablemates.

We call it ‘sharp control’ as it gives even more precision with a perfect power/control balance.” Babolat’s ‘most beautiful racquet’? “By making the frame more flexible, we have given the Pure Strike VS a bit more precision than the standard Pure Strike by enhancing the responsiveness. We have the three main Babolat models – the Pure Drive for baseliners who need to call on explosivity, the Pure Aero for those who play with a lot of spin, and the Pure Strike for attacking players who like to make the most of the opponent’s power to generate their own.

“Obviously we hope that players at all levels will adopt the Pure Strike VS,” says Olivier Carlier, “but during the two years we researched and tested it across the world, we realised we needed it in our range mainly for the competitive players. It comes with a leather grip for greater feel, and players wanting to buy two racquets can buy them in pairs with a guaranteed maximum weight difference of 1 gramme between the two – most tennis racquets (from all makers) can have a 7g variance across the same model, so the 1g guarantee helps the player know that if a string breaks during a match, the replacement racquet will be effectively identical. The Babolat Pure Strike VS has a recommended retail price of €279.95. In 1925 the VS emerged as the highest quality of gut string, and Babolat has used the name ever since, mainly for its original product of high-quality gut strings, but more recently for other top-of-the-range products, like racquets.

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The French family-owned company began making strings for racquet sports in 1875, and each experiment at improving the gut was accompanied by two letters to denote the material and the trial number.

The ‘VS’ label emerged over the first 50 years of Babolat’s history.

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The Pure Strike VS is the racquet in the Babolat range that gives most control, and with these adjustments, attacking players who hit with large swings will be able to play with full confidence.” Added benefit for competitive players “Responsiveness is the capacity of the ball to fly off the string, so the increased stability compensates for the small reduction in the sweet spot. “We worked on the stability of the racquet to offer maximum responsiveness,” he adds. If you think of a racquet frame as a clockface, most bumpers are fitted from 10 o’clock to 2 o’clock, but on the Pure Strike VS we have extended it to running from 9 to 3 o’clock, to protect more of the frame and strings from abrasions, and maintain a high performance level. The head is 97 square inches instead of 98, which brings the extra precision, but it is better protected from scrapes with the court surface.īabolat’s Tennis Group Marketing Manager Olivier Carlier says, “Every racquet has a protective ‘bumper’, a piece of plastic that protects the frame from damage if the player plays a low shot and the racquet scrapes against the ground at high speed. Compared with the Pure Strike, the VS model has a slightly smaller head size.