Many thanks for my friend who got me the tennis shoes I loved the most at a great bargain from Addias outlet last month.
Now I can finally throw away my old pair of Barricade V White/Black as it has been wore to a big hole in my right toe after 15 months. I personally still do not like Barricade VI (aka B6) as it’s just not my cup of tea in terms of style and weight, I do hope Addias can keep B5 for a long time to come.
This is the 4th generation of Prince Graphite, the 1st generation is the one with one strip and no grommet, the following 2 generations are 4-strips with grommet, 2nd generation is printed with “110″ on top, then “oversize” on top for the 3rd. Being the 4th generation, it’s a 28 inch long body (probably world’s 1st long body back then in early 1990s) and Michael Chang reached his highest ATP ranking of #2 using this racket. I spotted this precious weapon in a local pro shop and bought for one of my tennis partner.
In fact, for 2nd and 3rd generations, there are three different head sizes, mid (90), mid-plus (100) and oversize (107), this 4th generation head size is actually even larger than oversize (107) which is being truly 110.
Personally, I found everyone will enjoy the power of this long body for serving, but it’s just too stiff for me, I still prefer the Prince Original Graphite (aka. POG or the 2nd and 3rd generation of its family.
My friend sent me this link yesterday and I would like to share with everyone.
This is once in a lifetime exhibition Sampras & Federer vs Agassi & Nadal at 2010 Indian Wells Tennis and who else do we see from the crowd? Rod Laver! Oh My!
It’s just a pure pleasure to watch them play, especially with Agassi’s funny talk and skip to 46:23, you will see Federer playing with Nadal’s famous forehand style for fun and he kept saying “So Much Spin”
Btw, in case you didn’t know, Sampras goes to Babolat!, feel sorry for those who bought K88 previously.