What a nice racquet - does everything well. I understand Kennex used to make most of the world's racquets, and probably still do - and their experience shows, they have made a lot of cheap-and-nasty stuff, but their top racquets are usually pretty damn good.
I understand that the Graphite Destiny is the stiffest in the Destiny range, the next being a gorgeous cherry-red thing called the Ceramic Destiny. A friend has the blue-green Composite Destiny, which is also a lovely looking thing, although not quite to my taste, being lot flexier than mine. There is also the off-white Pearl Destiny, and I don't know where that sits in the range! These all have a narrow (17.3mm) beam at the throat, so they're not as stiff as modern racquets, with good feel off the ground.
Its a typical player's stick, around the 12oz mark, quite head-light, and feels quite modern; topspinners may find the slightly wide aero hoop a bit off-putting, though.
This is my all time favorite raquet. I broke mine when it slipped out of my hand hitting an overhead one cold winter day. Where did you get this one?
ReplyDeleteI find all my racquests on the local version of ebay - and I'm still looking for my cherry red Ceramic Destiny!
ReplyDeleteThis is also my all time favorite racquet and I found two over the years on eBay. Same as another poster mine slipped out of my hand at the end of a serve and broke in four places! Oy. They had just gone “out of print” at retail, replaced by the Graphite Presence which I didn’t like quite as much.
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