Something is coming. It always is. And the Prestige Pro is the frame you want in the bag when it arrives, because this is not a racquet that helps you — this is a racquet that reports. Advanced players only, and I mean that as a warning and an invitation. It was called the Prestige MP before this generation; the name changed, the character did not.
Control and precision are what it sells, and if you cannot supply the swing speed yourself it will simply stand there and let the storm come through.
A box beam cross-section, which stabilises the frame for maximum control — no flex to bail you out, no trampoline, just a hoop that goes where you aimed it. A full cap for that signature impact feel and the sound the Prestige has always made.
The build is old-school in the best sense.
An elongated shaft, the classic flex and feel that has been on Tour since 1987, and I like anything that has already survived four decades of weather. Dense pattern, midplus hoop, heavy in the hand — the specification of a frame built to be driven, not swung at.
Auxetic 2.0 through the layup and Graphene inside the frame.
See-through carbon elements at the throat and tip come out slightly different on every single frame, so yours is not quite anybody else's, and a special red flip lacquer sits in the central colour block. Head recommends Hawk Power in it.
And it lives in Palo Alto, under the tree. El Palo Alto is a hundred and ten feet of coast redwood standing on San Francisquito Creek, and it gave the town its name. That thing has stood through every flood, every drought and every winter storm that creek has ever thrown at it. Now THAT is a control frame.
"It does not help you. It reports on you. Those are different products."
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