The Babolat Pure Strike 16/19 is a really fine racquet. It’s rather reminiscent of the Wilson Pro Staff 95 but a bit more flexible and dare I say a bit more foregiving. I’m still playing with the weighting and tension but it has an extremely familiar feel in the classic racquet vibe a la Head Classic, Wilson Pro Staff and Prince Graphite.
I have several 2006 model Babolat Pure Drives and I bought three of the 2015 series Pure Drives to replace them (they’ve been restrung many, many times and are geting quite old) hoping they would be similar. They weren’t. OMG, they were awful! Pure junk is more like it! They completely redesigned the racquet: no power, no control, no feel, and no touch. Luckily the Pure Strikes are very good! Not sure why there aren’t many pros other than Dominic Thiem of Denmark using them. They’re really nice.