A sweet spot for this Andre Agassi racket If you’re in the market for a cool new tennis racket, write to HEAD Sport and tell them you’d like them to produce the one shown here, designed by Damian O’Sullivan, rather than its boring commemorative Radical racket. Over at MoCo Loco, O’Sullivan writes, “This weekend Andre Agassi played his last game of professional tennis. ... Three years ago, [I] designed a tennis racket for HEAD Sport AG bearing Agassi’s face on the blade of the racket. Although the tennis racket was never produced, we would hereby like to show it one more time as a last tribute to the great man of tennis.” It’s surprising that more companies haven’t tried to stencil ads on the pros’ rackets. How long before we see one with a shadowy Whopper right in the middle? Via Cool Hunting. —Posted by Tim Nudd

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I assume the idea is to keep this as a commemorative piece rather than a player's racquet? The problem with using it is that the paint (stencil) on the strings tends to chip after some use.

Ads have been on racquet strings for quite a while. Usually in the form of the sponsor's logo stenciled in the same manner that the Andre picture is. Granted, the Andre picture is FAR cooler than the Head logo.

Posted by: Danny | Sep 6, 2006 9:48:55 AM

usually, the stencil is the raquet company's, not an "ad" per se

Posted by: dusty bottoms | Sep 6, 2006 2:53:24 PM

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