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10: New
9: Mint
8: Excellent
7: Good
6: Fair
5: Average
4: Below Average
3: Poor

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10: Impossibly rare
9: Extremely rare
8: Hard to find
7: Fairly rare
6: Uncommon
5: Common
<4: Big Seller

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About The Head Arthur Ashe Expert

In 1969 Arthur Ashe partnered with Head to develop the company’s first composite tennis racket in 1969, explaining: “I was using a new wood racket every week because they would go soft in the head and break after several days of hard play…I recognized the potential of Head’s aluminum composite and soon found myself testing dozens of different rackets…We eventually reached our goal of building a racket that would last me a minimum of one month without any deterioration.

It was originally marketed as the “Competition” as a revolutionary a new fibreglass and aluminium laminated process and released as the Comp 1. They quickly improved it was the Comp 2 and 3 but with Ashe’s use and endorsement it was redesigned in 1975 as the Head Arthur Ashe Competition and Head Arthur Ashe Expert which had exotic boron infused. It became a very big seller in the US, although the head size was tiny and it was not very user friendly.However it looked space age at the time!

Composition tennis racket with clear gut strings (Victor Imperial strings) painted with the Head logo in black. The racket has a silver frame with a red line accent around the oval head and open throat. the handle is flat in between the head and the grip, which is faceted and covered in dark brown leather. At the top of the grip is black plastic with the Head logo.

It clearly suited Arthur Ashe, he used it to win Wimbledon in 1975. He was the only black male tennis player to win Wimbledon (1975) and the U.S. Open (1968).

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About Head

Howard Head was creator of Head and Prince. Head started in tennis in 1970 HEAD. HEAD made the first aluminum tennis frame, the iconic Arthur Ashe Competition, which Ashe used to defeat Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon in 1975. In the following decades, legends from Guillermo Vilas to Thomas Muster played and won using HEAD tennis racquet. HEAD continued to innovate and introduced the groundbreaking Titanium racquets in 1998. In 1998, the company introduced its groundbreaking Titanium racquets, further solidifying its position as a leader in tennis technology. Today, HEAD’s Graphene technology is widely recognized and used by players around the world.HEAD’s roster of sponsored athletes reads like a who’s who of tennis greats. From Arthur Ashe to Andre Agassi, Maria Sharapova, Andy Murray, Marin Cilic, and Novak Djokovic, many top professionals have chosen HEAD equipment. The brand’s popularity soared in 2012 when three HEAD-sponsored players won Grand Slam titles: Djokovic at the Australian Open, Sharapova at the French Open, and Murray at the US Open.In recent years, HEAD has made strategic moves to stay at the forefront of the sport. They’ve added rising stars like Bianca Andreescu, Alexander Zverev, and Coco Gauff to their roster.

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