A first hit with Fischer Pro No 1

Well.... let me give you an advice! NEVER, EVER under no circumstance, playtest a new racket at 10 pm a tuesday when you have worked all day long! Never... Ever!

I strung up my new Pro No 1´s with a couple of different strings and tensions and took the bats on a testspin. It was indoor on a medium-fast hardcourt with Tretorn Series + balls.

It felt good at the start but I noticed pretty fast that this 320 gram version is A) very string sensitive and B) Very unstable on off-center hits.

When I concentrated and focused on the game this racket is very nice, solid and powerful, but as soon as you are a fraction late or hit an off-center stroke, the rackets vibrate very much and all of the vibrations goes right into the arm.

IF i should continue with those frames I guess I would need to do some heavy customisation-work with them. For example add about 5 grams on each side at 3 and 9 o clock to make the frame more solid and a fraction more power.
However, I want instant love, so I actually orderd 4 Fischer Magnetic Tour SL and they arrived yesterday. They came strung with Fischer Pro No 1 strings but I cut one up and strung it with Pro´s Pro Cyber Power 1,25 mm strings at 53 lbs. I will make a gigantic gamble with this frame and use them first time in our league-game in Vetlanda on Sunday. I know, I know.. Very stupid, but what the heck! No guts, no glory..

Speaking of guts,, Hopefully I will recieve 3 sets of Global Gut natural guts from Emersoncorp in India and 3 sets of Unifibre natural gut from America next week. A playtest-review will be here as soon as I have tried them a couple of hours (if they last so long that is.. the magnetic tour seems to be a string-eater...)

BTW; Here is a pic of the 6 Fischer Pro No 1´s that soon will be on a local ebay close to you...