Looking to buy a Wilson Kfactor or nCode Six one? This guide will assure that your new racquet is not a fake. The Wilson kSix One’s are very similar to the nSix One’s and this guide can still be used to determine fakes. Refer to http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/viewlarge.html?PCODE=K61T for better pictures of a the kSix One Team and note the differences between that and the kSix One 95. Â Many people purchase tennis racquets without knowing they are replica’s or “fakesRead More...
Fake Wilson K Factor Six-One Tour 90 Tennis racket. Full size images on Google website “sixonetour90.” Ebay guide images are tiny, sorry! Please see my other guides on Ebay: Fake Wilson K Factor KSix-One Tour 90 Tennis Rackets A Fake Wilson K Factor KSix-One Tour 90 Tennis Rackets B Fake Wilson K Factor KSix-One Tour 90 Tennis Rackets C Â This is a copy of the 1st version of Federer’s racket. It has the (K)arbon not the (K)arophite Black text, so this racket was copied froRead More...
Full size photos on Google websites “sixonetour90″. Please see my other guides on ebay – you are only allowed 10 photos per guide! Fake Wilson K Factor KSix-One Tour 90 Tennis Rackets A Fake Wilson K Factor KSix-One Tour 90 Tennis Rackets B Fake Wilson K Factor KSix-One Tour 90 Tennis Rackets C Grip is yellow, must be brown leather. Some fakes have white or grey handles. The R registered mark is almost invisible. Grommet strip is poorly punched. Paint flakes off very easRead More...
About a year ago I wrote an article about a fake Babolat Pure Drive and how fake tennis racquets being passed off as genuine item. A year has passed and the counterfeit tennis racquet industry has grown even more in prominence and stature. It has now even got to the point where buyers are scrutinizing each and every aspect of the racquet especially if they intend to purchase 2nd hand or used tennis racquet from an online tennis forum, online auction site or from a racquet trader. Looking at tRead More...
There has been much talk recently of fake tennis racquets from China flooding the international markets. Even in the US market where counterfeit and piracy is almost non existent we find cases of fake counterfeit tennis racquets being sold on eBay! I recently wrote an article about a fake Babolat Pure Drive that I have managed to acquire from a friend. The issue about fake tennis racquets are not only about how authentic they look up to the hologram labels that are issued with them, but more Read More...
No one can. I brought a fake Wilson K90 for $25USD in Shenzhen. The seller even throw in a Wilson bag which should worth $5 alone. I brought my first Wilson racket back in 1993 and it was a real Prostaff classical 85. (the one used by tennis legend Pete Sampras). I only hit with it a few times before I went to the US and basically retired from the sports. I started playing tennis again in Aug. 2008. I brought a Wilson K95. I know both my Prostaff and K95 are the real racket as they all cost mRead More...
There are a lot of fake K Factor Team 95’s listed. I checked with Wilson and the Team 95’s were never sold pre-strung or with racquet cases. The obvious fakes have 8 strings in the throat (real ones have six) and have shared holes on the head of the racquets. Additionally, the ones I purchased had the wrong UPC code (they had the code for the 1/4 grip while the ones I was sold had 3/8 grips), wrong colored tape holding the grip on (should be white and they had black), and they diRead More...