Stringing Facts

Stringing to most players is regarded as a necessary evil rather than a necessity, something to be done only when a string breaks. The strings are the racquets main power source and a badly strung racquet can negate all the good playing characteristics of a modern racquet. With racquet weights getting ever lighter, there has to be some compensation made for the lack of mass in the frame, the racquets actual hitting power.

- Lower String Tensions generate more power providing string movement does not occur.

- Higher string tensions generate more ball control. Usually recommended for experienced players.

- A longer string, or string plane area, produces more power.

- Decreased string density, or fewer strings, generates more power.

- Softer strings, or strings with a softer coating, tend to vibrate less.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that all things being equal, the laws of physics do not allow the mass of a light object to overcome that of a heavy object. The weight of the tennis ball going in one direction, verses the weight of the tennis racquet coming from the other are getting forever closer. This now makes the choice of strings and the method of stringing even more important, as the stringbed has more work to do.

The brand of your string as well as it’s reputation, resiliency, gague, density, composition (nylon, kevlar, gut, Zyex, hybrid), texture, pattern, string spacers, vibration dampeners, as well as the variety of stringing patterns, lengths and tensions available can be very confusing.

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