I’ve been playing a bunch of tennis these past few months using some Volkl DNX 9 racquets that my dad bought. They’re fine but the handle was too small for me and I thought it’d be cool to try out a new racquet so I bought one. The Babolat AeroPro Drive to be exact.

This is actually the older model of the new AeroPro Drive Cortex. Rather than paying $185 for the newer version, I settled for the older one for $125 from Tennis Warehouse and had it strung with Prince Synthetic Gut Duraflex 16 gauge. I’m kind of a noob at tennis so I did some research making sure the reviews were awesome before I bought ‘em.

It arrived earlier today (8/6/09) and went out to play with it with Georo, the same guy that is in my shitty snowboarding videos, and who also got a new racquet today. Anyway, the AeroPro Drive is nice. The larger handle is definitely better. It feels stiffer than the DNX 9’s I was using, not sure if that’s good or bad. Ok, I’ll shut up now and put some more pictures up.