Slazenger Omega Tennis Racquet

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I drew this because my Slazenger OMEGA Tennis Racquet was my very first brand-new racquet. It wasn’t handed down to me. I didn’t find it in the rafters of my Grandpa’s garage. It was brand new, with oil-filled nylon strings, and I paid for every penny of it by mowing lawns at $5 a 1/2 acre. That’s what I said — a half acre… of thick Algonac, Michigan grass. I probably bought the racquet more for its design than I did for how well it played because, in all fairness, I wasn’t the best player and this racquet was probably more show than anything else. But I loved it because it was new and it was mine.

I drew this because my Slazenger OMEGA Tennis Racquet was my very first brand-new racquet. It wasn’t handed down to me. I didn’t find it in the rafters of my Grandpa’s garage. It was brand new, with oil-filled nylon strings, and I paid for every penny of it by mowing lawns at $5 a 1/2 acre. That’s what I said — a half acre… of thick Algonac, Michigan grass. I probably bought the racquet more for its design than I did for how well it played because, in all fairness, I wasn’t the best player and this racquet was probably more show than anything else. But I loved it because it was new and it was mine.

Credits:

  • Title: “Vintage Slazenger Omega Tennis Racquet”

  • Artist: Mike Pitzer

  • Medium: Graphite & Colored Pencil on Paper

  • Original: One-of-a-kind Artwork

  • Image Size: 72″ T x 36″ W

  • Signed & Dated: MPitzer ’22

  • Series: “Happy Art”

  • Style: Pop-Realism

  • Sold via: SaatchiArt.com