Stefanos Tsitsipas became one of the Next Gen players to watch out after a string of top results in 2018 and 2019, and once he had won the ATP Finals in 2019 there was no doubting he was here to stay. If want to understand which racquet Stefanos Tsitsipas uses to generate his results on the court, we have all that information including its specifications.
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Born to parents who both played tennis at a professional level, Tsitsipas continued the tradition by taking to the sport like fish to water.
He went on to become the number one player on the junior’s circuit, and later featured in his maiden ATP match at the 2017 Rotterdam Open. A Challenger title win that season got his campaign going and won his maiden main draw match on the tour at the Shanghai Masters that season – beating Karen Khachanov.
With some confidence under his belt, Tsitsipas went on to make it to the semifinal of the European Open and pushed his ranking up to the top 100 in the world.
2018 proved to be the breakthrough season for the Greek which saw him make it as far as the fourth round at Wimbledon but more vitally also saw him win his first title on the ATP tour. He won the Stockholm Open and then, qualifying for the Next-Gen Finals (played in the Fast4 format), he captured that title as well.
Having now established himself as one of the young guns expected to take over the mantle from the Big Three, Tsitsipas added three more ATP titles in 2019 and one in the curtailed 2020 season. The biggest of them all, at the time of writing, came at the ATP Finals in 2019 where he beat Daniil Medvedev (racquet specs here), Alexander Zverev, Roger Federer and Dominic Thiem.
Known to play aggressively off the baseline, Tsitsipas is one of the rare players in the modern tennis world who also loves to get to the net regularly.
The Greek has a solid, single-handed backhand, another rarity, while his game is centred around smashing winners off solid groundstokes, a habit which also gets him into trouble with unforced errors thanks to over-hitting the ball.
Interestingly, Tsitsipas has played a lot on clay as a kid, says grass is his favourite surface and has won quite well on hard court as well having reached the semifinal at the 2019 Australian Open. An all-court player for sure.
So, Which is Stefanos Tsitsipas’s Racquet?
Stefanos Tsitsipas endorses the Wilson Blade 97 but has always used the Wilson Blade 98 in different forms, customising it to his liking. The racquet he endorses, i.e. the Wilson Blade 97, however, might not be too different from an old 2013 BLX racquet, which has been painted to look like a new model.
Typically, a Wilson Blade 98 uses the Luxilon 4G 125 in the mains and Luxilon 4G 125 in the crosses as its strings.
Some of the other players who use one or the other form of Wilson Blade 98 include Alex De Minaur, David Goffin, Milos Raonic, Alison Riske, Guido Pella, Kiki Bertens, and Aryna Sabalenka among others.
Get the Wilson Blade 98 racquet specifications below.
- Length: 27 in/68.58 cm
- Head Size: 98 sq.in./632.26 sq.cm
- Weight: Strung: 11.4 oz/323 g
- Tension: 50-60 Pounds
- Balance: 33.02 cm/13 in/4 pts HL
- Beam Width: 21 mm/21 mm/21 mm
- Composition: Braided Graphite & Basalt
- String Pattern: 18 Mains/20 Crosses
- Stiffness: 62
Watch the below video reviewing the racquet Stefanos Tsitsipas endorses, the Wilson Blade 98 18X20:
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