The result is the Pro Staff RF97, which is predominantly black with touches of silver and red. “I was pushing [Wilson] to be more confident, and almost put nothing on the racquet,” Federer said.

In college my racquet of choice was the Sampras Wilson Pro Staff, but during a doubles tournament I broke the strings in all of the frames I had in my bag. My partner and I made the final ...

Prior to that, he also made a big racket change, as he outlined in a Wilson video last year, as he looked back on his change from the Wilson Pro Staff 6.0 85″, the Wilson Pro Staff Tour 90″.