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Yeah well, again we’re talking engineering and mass production and things like that. When I first started to play, I used to actually... I’d buy a standard racket, but I would have to change it to my own balance and my own length... all sorts of things. So, they’ve got it down to a fine art now – the production of rackets, but even then every racket you pick up is slightly different. And you’ll have a favourite one. So you’ll buy three exactly the same – meant to be. Exactly the same weight, exactly the same grip size, exactly the same, exactly the same length, all this sort of thing. And they can look absolutely perfect.... they don’t play the same. Every one of them will play slightly differently, but again it will depend on your sensitivity.

Just because some rackets... ever so slightly more stiff or have a different weighting in the head. Because they are being swung at such a speed and because they do flex quite a lot and the same... you know when they make contact with the ball. Just like a 0.5%, or 1%, or just a few percent difference is going to be picked up by a good player.

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