To recap, there have been several pictures floating around the internet of Andy Roddick using a new racquet. The specualation has been that Babolat will introduce the new version some time this year. Today I heard from my territory representative from Babolat that there will be a new Pure Drive that will be released this summer. He did not have much to say about it except that he believed that it would be a mainly cosmetic change. So it sounds like there will be no new technology to it (maybe a couple of upgrades), and the Cortex system will still be there. It looks a lot to me that Babolat is trying to stir up new sales by introducing a new look to an old racquet.

Will this "new" Pure Drive be enough to get Andy a second Grand Slam title? I guess we'll just have to wait and see...