Rafa Nadal

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Do you think he used a smaller frame to handicap himself? Sampras used an 85 pro staff, as did madbluboy in his younger days. Nothing beats when you hit the sweet spot off of those raquets but they are unforgiving.

MBB, I assume tennis is like golf, the better the player that greater the incentive to use equipment with a smaller sweet spot!

I have an associate who used to practice his long iron golf swing on a concrete floor with 5c piece. The idea was to have the club come down on top of the 5c piece swing after swing after swing. If you get it right the 5c piece just hops up and down on the spot barely moving. Obviously you have to use an old club as the sole of the club is destroyed by continually landing on top of metal. But the 5c piece was roughly the size of a blade club sweet spot, get it right and when you get on course you wouldn't even feel the club making contact with the ball.