Tennis | Former ATP Pro using Wooden Racket vs Amateur using Modern Racket 

Only if he could cut back on the errors, and have a second serve he would legit be much better, I think he would probably be like an 11 UTR.

Alex is a joke

@@ollie708 He was 260 ATP, he’s playing with a wooden racket cut him some slack.

I'm seeing more 5.0 club players serving huge. Racket technology just doesn't stop and young players are taking full advantage.

hes a 10.2 bro hes a top 3000 player in the world

Well Johnny Mac played against wooden racquet holders too, no one had the advantage. The only cuckoo who tried to use a wooden racquet against modern ones was Borg in his return in the 90s.

Or Jimmy Connors with that Wilson T2000

Not really. The opponents also played with wood racquets.

@@razorback9926 and John was still able to hit 115mph on his first serves

@@Jacob-rq5zb McEnroe in the 1990s could serve 120, but that was using a modern racquet. When he was #1 in 1984 he was using wood, and not serving 120.

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Your comments are right on but one factor is worth considering. He is not used to playing with a racquet like this. If he used it for a few months and got the feel of it, his strokes would be far more effective than we are seeing now. The Dunlop Maxply Fort was the choice of many pros ( Johnny Mac was one ) and was a great racquet. I played with one when I was a teenager. Obviously modern racquets are far far better overall but many many Grand Slams were won with one of these.

It's also quite heavy and easy to hit late.

Just like me, both out

Connors used the impossible to control but powerful Wilson T2000 steel racket. He was the only player ever able to use that thing.

@@stevenmeyer9674 That T2000 also weighed as much as a brick. Amazing how he could play with that.

Service returns were horrible. Rod Laver at age 60 with his wood racket easily beats either of these two. In his 40s, Laver wouldn't drop a point.❤

@@folkemer what do you expect from the only one of the few players to do the surface grand slam. Go the mighty rod

Glad you enjoyed it x

bruh as u could clearly see he played like your grandma. He managed to get some of those big serves in with a crazy slice I have no idea how only cuz he is a pro thus super human talent

Im just saying my view I agree Id like too his point of view about those points

Not a pro but I've hit with 13 Oz old graphite rackets, lots of rackets with crap strings, wood rackets, etc. Head size is a Big factor. Scrap that, actually sweetspot size, probably most important. Rossignol 80s rackets are small but have a Generous sweetspot, I've played some of my best tennis sometimes with them, including hitting against some serious spin and some pace. With decent strings mind you. Of course back then they didn't have poly or even good nylon, they'd string up natural gut usually very tight. Sampras and Borg would have rackets Snap sometimes due to the huge pressures just from string tensions. Anyways of course with 60 Sq. Inch wood rackets, no sweetspot (sometimes smaller than the ball, altho they used smaller balls back then) so of course Anything off center was a not good shot, unless of course rhey are at net perhaps which was Very often back then. Serving & returning were even more important in the wood/ aluminum days (the material "shift" didn't change much at all- top pro's kept using woodies until graphite completely took over (with a few exceptions- Connors briefly used Steel t2000 in 1985, Mecir/ Noah used wood in frames, etc) at the top in early 80s Somebody else can probably explain it better. It is Absolutely Amazing what Borg, McEnroe, Pancho Gonzales (some partial topspin/ overspin on his forehand I've seen in certain clips/ matches), Hoad, etc could do. Impossible to emulate Nadal tho without graphite, big headed rackets and poly strings

On wooden? Heck yeah he could, prob Borg too.

We also need a Wood Court tournament again.

Unlikely. All tennis court surfaces have been slowed down to make for longer boring rallies. It started in the early 2000s. Yeah, even Wimbledon was slowed down in 2001 by using a different grass mixture which holds the ball up. In 2022, some players stated that the Wimbledon courts were markedly slower than in previous years. So maybe they've changed the grass mixture yet again.

Agreed, we need a video of the racquet reversals!

Glad you enjoyed it! ATT x

Probably had Klipspringer natural gut strings

Thanks! ATT x

Completely agree. He can’t be that old. His serve especially seems very weak, even considering the racket.

@@TheRausing1 he just turned 36, LOL. Nadal is actually two months younger than him. Maybe he was really sandbagging for shits and giggles.

Serve a bomb (modern serve, flat) with that racket and the thing would implode in 30 different pieces. Bro, it's a wooden racket!!!

I think both these guys took this contest too seriously, especially Josh. He comes off as an unlikable prick.

He’s pathetic..just a friendly match. Probably his mental approach was his Demise as a pro

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She hits the "heaviest" ball on the WTA tour--I imagine that would be hard to handle with a flexible woody and small head. However, would they be able to string the woodies with poly? I might try that sometime for kicks....

Poly on wood is good, but you must string very low, 25-35lbs. Poly doesn't stretch like gut did, very stiff in such a dense small space. With poly in wood you can actually generate a lot of spin.

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He mentioned he is a 10.2. I assume 10.2 UTR.

He doesnt look like 10 utr, but does look quite impressive. Might be low on practice.

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@@allthingstennis Haha, yes make sure you put a big Dunlop MAX 200G 40th Year picture on the next VLOG - then if Dunlop wake up and have an anniversary at Wimbledon this year, I'll take 2 tickets please!

I have a couple of pristine Dunlop 200Gs. Also have a Dunlop Muscleweave. It's one of the best Dunlops made. Also have a few wooden Dunlops, the earlier Maxplys like Laver used and the last version, the McEnroe Maxply with a graphite overlay. You can hit any of the shots with the wooden racquets except when you are playing against someone with a powerful graphite racquet who is big shots you simply get overpowered, have to go to a slice. On moderate pace balls you can hit topspin off both sides with the wooden Dunlops.

@@gordonipock9385 Laver could hit topspin both sides

Josh is very much a screamer 😄

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We don't decide this btw

And a when they see your yellow fuzzy balls and yell "out" whose fault is that?

@@Yowza78 Long ago the balls were white.

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Because we are humans.

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