Customize a racquet to Sinner's specs using the Head 4-in-1 Diagnostic Machine at BNP Paribas Open

[@johne0824]

This is a tennis channel. And the video is about a tennis racquet customization. Why try so hard to squeeze in pickleball padel 🤷‍♂️

[@virtualyme7659]

I'm so sick of tennis outlets talking about pickleball.

[@michaelespinosa9168]

I approve of light mint green fashion souls

[@vscope]

That video is interesting, they add 1.4 gramm at 60cm according to the second weight measurement. That should add 3.5 swingweight points and 0.2 twistweight points. But they remeasure 2 sw and 0.4 tw gain. Maybe my math is wrong?

[@anindianinamerica5747]

A link to buy this diagnostic tool would be much appreciated!

[@silverporsche81]

when you put on the lead tape for eg like at 9 o'clock , do you put it on both sides of the string holes or just on one side

[@nitrooo123]

always on both sides of the grommets to keep the racket as balanced as possible

[@wildflower7574]

Yes this is needed at every retail outlet. Quality control is at a all time low with crazy fluctuations in swingweight and static weight.

[@qk1s]

Isn't Sinner playing with 340 SW? The specs they are customizing this racket to is a bit too low. It would be much harder to get higher SW while maintaining same balance point and static weight

[@michaelp9061]

I understand here he is trying to use an off the shelf racquet to match But Sinner does not use this version of speed.

[@michaelp9061]

They are Two completely different racquets

[@enematwatson1357]

You don't expect the official Head representative to be fully transparent about it, do you? 😁

[@jerome_morrow]

Well, at least Sinner does use a Speed. Djoker on the other hand… nice PJ! 😆

[@michaelp9061]

You are right. Djokovic never touched a speed.

[@kobybonta8949]

True but you could get the version he does use and spec match. Still really cool.

[@leftyspinn]

Sinner uses an old speed with shared holes. Not the current model with some lead

[@jonathanchen1026]

Same mold as the one they selling on their site for 99$!

[@taekwondooba5780]

I don’t really understand the obsession with secrecy of professionals racquets specs. Manufactures treat consumers like little babies who can’t understand that pros use different racquets that we can buy. It’s like they want to deny a simple fact that most people already know

[@ll8937]

pickleball?? please edit that out next time.

[@kogoromori5198]

It is is very hard to customise for Static weight, swingweight, Balance Point and Twist weight. Which is why they also did not do it in this video. Twistweight was just measured at the end, but not further corrected to a specific spec. Without preselecting a couple of racquets that are coming in quite identical in specs from manufacturing, getting all 4 Specs identical is not really possible. This is why the pros do get their frames manufactured not in the china factory were our racquets come from. Would be hell off a lot of work to prescreen off the shelf racquets, that show just to mention static weight ranges of +-7 g. To provide like like 30 identical frames to Sinner for maybee hardcourt season they would have very much fun working with mass production frames.

[@padflash]

This is not universally true. Head pro stocks that are a version of a retail frame, like Sinner's TGT301.4, are manufactured in China. Big difference between the retail and pro stock versions are the removal of the commercial weights. Pro stocks whose code starts with "PT," like Novak's PT113b, are manufactured in Austria.

[@kogoromori5198]

@@padflash Thanks for the insights. I did not want to say that frames cannot be manufactured in China with good quality control; this would not be true, obviously. But Sinners frames are still a different batch than the ones meant for the public market.

[@vscope]

There is a tuning device called Metortune which does all the measurements + has a software included which calculates the lead positions automatically for all 4 specs.

[@kogoromori5198]

@@vscope I will have a look thanks. But there would still be situations that can't be resolved. I have seen swing weights 15 points over spec. You just cannot remove weight.... If you start with a light bare bone frame, yes I would agree you definitely could do a lot with this software.

[@vscope]

@@kogoromori5198 yes, you are right, not every spec can be resolved. that's why pro stock rackets are light in specs to make tuning easy. however the Metortune calculates 8 different weight positions for each racket and up to 9 rackets at once in seconds. thats a big help for me.

[@Giotopoulostennis94]

Sinner has 15 grams under grommets at least...say the truth!!!!!!

[@t2dev]

🤷 Is that Voldemort's racquet? He whose name shall not be mentioned.

[@LarzB]

He is soo sloppy customizing. And silicone in the handle is the worst as you cannot remove it properly and it's very inaccurate. The lead just above the butt cap is also not the most effective way. I add some lead on the butt cap on the inside and make sure it cannot shift.

[@michaelespinosa9168]

@@LarzB huh huh you said “butt”

[@redmandyl]

Swing weight is measured 10cm above the buttcap and therefore he carefully put lead tape there to gain weight and stay SW neutral

[@LarzB]

@@redmandyl yeah you have a very little effect on swing weight 10 cm before the measurement point, but that effect is very very little. Practically zero with the amount of lead he uses. I stuff 14 grams in the butt cap and that effect is still very low (1 point)

[@LarzB]

@@michaelespinosa9168 😂 how old are you? Or you didn't know this part of the racket is called butt cap?

[@leftyspinn]

You put cotton wool inside the handle before injecting silicone. Much easier to remove because it won't leak down too far