Alexei has been known for some years now as a very hard hitting player with one of the heaviest balls on the tour. What exactly enables him to his so hard and control the ball at the same time? According to Tennis nerd, he is using a Head pro stock known as PT57, the mould of which hasn’t changed for over 20 years and is the same racket that Aslan Karatsev is using – another hard hitting player.
So what gives Popyrin’s racket this unique combination of power and control? Here are his racket specs:
It’s apparent from the specs that the racket is pro stock, because of relatively low static mass with a very high swigweight, and not a very high balance point. This means that the hairpin is very light and a lot of mass is added to the head and in the handle, to achieve a very polarized setup with low MGR/I.