Do Strings REALLY Make That Much Of A Difference On Your Tennis Performance?

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Күн бұрын

In the last 20 years nothing has changed in the game of tennis more than strings. With so many different types of strings on the market, you might be wondering "what strings best suits your tennis game?" In this video Scott and Nate break down all the different types of strings, how they effect performance, and do they really make that much of a difference?
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@Playyourcourt 10 ай бұрын

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@jorgetirado3201 9 ай бұрын

Most pro players use a full bed of poly, only a handful now use a hybrid with natural gut.

@jonathankarakas5354 6 ай бұрын

Found that using the babolat vs + rpm blast hybrid gives crazy durability, decent spin , tons of power and that Cadillac plush feel ! over time due to how many hrs this setup lasts it actually ends up being on par cost wise w any strings on the market with all its advantages.

@ROSEMARY-gl7wx 6 ай бұрын

Isnt RPM blast shaped?

@FelixE-hv4wv 26 күн бұрын

@@ROSEMARY-gl7wx i think so

@transklutz 3 ай бұрын

Yes, match strings + tension to your stroke type + speed + ball used to optimize dwell time and control on your racquet.

@kjomalle 7 ай бұрын

Very informative !!!

@Playyourcourt 6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@user-sm2uj9no4l 8 ай бұрын

Hello, Love your channel. What do you think about the hybrid of Babolat RPM blast with a head velocity MLT. What tension would you recommend. And what should go on the mains and crosses. Thank you.

@Playyourcourt 8 ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you're enjoying the channel! Big fan of RPM but afriad we haven’t personally tried Head velocity MLT. Most syn gut or multi filaments will make for a good hybrid though. I personally string the entire bed at 52lbs but many players will string the non-poly string at a higher tension. Hope this helps!

@tenniswithandy 10 ай бұрын

This was such a good video for the non tennis nerds. I’m a tennis nerd and I enjoyed it too. Well done guys!

@andrews2190 10 ай бұрын

Omg it’s tennis with Andy! Hiiii

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

Thank ya sir, much appreciated!

@TheDmonet Ай бұрын

Natural gut in hybrid mains last longer, plays better longer than multi. 15l gut over multi any day. Just don't get it wet. I break multi once a month, gut I can get 2 to 3 months on. hybrid with sort poly. food for thought

@h4rms 9 ай бұрын

I use a poly and string at 52lbs, however I find I play better as the strings get older, say 4-6 weeks later

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

The lower tension found after several hours / weeks of playing with poly is ideal. Concur it feels much after being broken in! Thanks for watching

@liambergin5732 10 ай бұрын

Good video. I’d recommend to all intermediate / regular players to try hybrids with soft cross strings , local racquet stringer recommended a year ago to soften it for my arm but a huge surprise for me was how nicer the racquet feels. Need to restring couple of times a year but would never go back to full poly / standard strings

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

Great suggestion!

@Legnerps 4 ай бұрын

What about textured strings?

@carloscuevas4442 10 ай бұрын

I have to highlight the comfort aspect of natural gut. I've struggled with tennis elbow and I ended up settling on a gut mains/poly crosses hybrid and it has made all the difference in the world in terms of arm health. Also, I use string savers to extend the life before it breaks to help save a little on the cost of gut.

@bmanbusee3812 10 ай бұрын

That’s the best option imo and never went back from it. Especially with a nice smooth poly in the cross! Disagree with that nat gut is only for 5.0 and above. Good 3.5 can get great benefit from a hybrid with it

@hillwellford9637 10 ай бұрын

"Gut is expensive." "Gut is cheaper than surgery." I'm kidding, but not kidding. Personally I find that the right poly mains / multi cross setup is almost as good (my favorite multi cross is Velocity MLT 16) but there is no denying that gut mains with a moderate stiffness, slippery, long lasting poly cross (Head Hawk 18 and Outlast 18 are my two favorites for this) is a great setup that offers arm friendliness, control, spin, and durability. If you don't mind the expense.

@bmanbusee3812 10 ай бұрын

@@hillwellford9637 Everyone talking about how expensive gut is. Depends! You can get half sets of something like Klip legend for about 20 bucks. The set up with a good poly will last long too!!

@Tennisbull-match-statistics 9 ай бұрын

Helped me recover from tennis elbow as well. Hybrid from Volkl is inexpensive and lasts long, especially with string savers. With the last stringing job I had the poly go in the mains to get more spin on my serve. I didn’t notice a big difference but my elbow isn’t as happy. I’ll go back to gut in the mains and poly in the crosses

@bmanbusee3812 9 ай бұрын

Don’t like Volkl natural gut at all. Frayed quickly and felt cheap. It was the icon one I believe. Anyway, best to put gut in main for spin with poly cross. It’s proven it’s more effective at producing spin!

@theripper37 9 ай бұрын

And would you recommend a pre-strung racquet to be re-strung? (Like the Yonex EZone Ace)?

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

If you're just getting started in the game you're prob fine. Just be aware if any arm issues start to creep in...then it's time to restring whether they are broken or not

@theripper37 9 ай бұрын

Any comments about tension for a beginner???

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

Mid-range is always ideal with the synthetic guts

@minisurfbanana 9 ай бұрын

Voikl Torque16/17

@pareshmathew1596 10 ай бұрын

I have had different strings on the same racquet and it makes it play so different. It can be the difference between ball landing in and hitting the net😊

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

100%

@docstranger9520 9 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure most ATP players are playing with full polyester these days.

@operation2096 Ай бұрын

Yes it makes all the difference in the world. If the player has the wrong setup it could cost pros the match. Eg loads of unforced errors with too much power

@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten 9 ай бұрын

1:55 Alcaraz, Rune, Sinner and Medvedev all use poly, so I wouldn't say you're hard pressed to find a pro that doesn't use natural gut if 4/5 top 5 players don't use it.

@Oxigan2win 8 ай бұрын

They just want to sell expensive gut strings on their website... thats all.

@brandomaxwell 8 ай бұрын

That you discuss poly's danger to the arm is to your credit. I only wish you'd added that the average player should cut it out after 15 or so hours of play.

@Playyourcourt 8 ай бұрын

Very true!

@Javi_C 10 ай бұрын

👍

@PeterRosa-bt2qr Ай бұрын

One disadvantage of natural gut seldom mentiined is that it frays quickly when the strings become wet or damp. This is important in more northerly climates.

@fearwolfbrewery5014 9 ай бұрын

After a lot of testing I have ended up with Kirschbaum black shark strung at 23 kg in my Babolat Pure Drive. I can swing big and hard without hitting to long.

@PaulVoorberg 6 ай бұрын

6:55 - Multifilament

@FiendishFuManchu 9 ай бұрын

My argument for natty gut main w poly cross is the racquet still performs well and feels great all the way until the strings break, which for me is about 30-40 hours. When I was playing full poly, regardless of brand, tension etc (I experimented a lot), I was lucky to get 15-20 good hours out of the best strings, after which they just feel like garbage and don’t play as well. If you really care about performance and more importantly arm health, and commit to cutting polys out when they are dead instead of when they break, after doing the math on price vs frequency it’s more or less a wash for a string that feels so so so much better. Anecdotally, I had shoulder pain that lasted for years that went away completely three weeks after I made the switch to gut/poly.

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

Great feedback and solid point on cutting poly's out when they go bad...not just when they break.

@MrHitthespot 9 ай бұрын

Multifilament saved my arm and improved my game. I have not tried gut but I’m only a 3.5 player right now and not sure if I would benefit.

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

It may but the price point would prob have the juice not being worth the squeeze. Worth a try though as we certainly don't want to discount it. I think you're in good hands using the multi-filament. Best of both worlds! Thanks for watching

@seanharmon1 10 ай бұрын

Regarding natural gut, I’ve got lots of players ranging from recreational to ATP professionals playing natural gut. Durability has not been a concern as long as the stringer is competent. Although it is more expensive per set, the durability, playability, and tension maintenance is far superior to synthetic gut. Over the course of a year, players using natural gut will pay less.

@bravo890 10 ай бұрын

Agree, I get an extra couple weeks out of my hybrid setup that includes natural gut

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

All solid points!

@billpoulakis1741 Ай бұрын

In an 18 x 20 string bed, a 17G full gut set up is the way to go. I rotate 2 fames, play 3 times per week at the 4.0 level and I easily get 6-8 weeks out of each frame. Big bonus, gut is the best at the net and for 1/2 volleys and no arm pain.!!

@alistairjones4361 3 ай бұрын

What's your hair routine

@Playyourcourt 3 ай бұрын

practice practice practice 😉

@PaulWolfe1 10 ай бұрын

I switched to square strings and yes they make a difference! They bite into the ball, don't notch, move and bounce back freely, and just give me confidence in topspin, even if I *could* get the same result with round strings, the square strings give me confidence that it if I hit the ball hard with the proper swing path, the ball will come down.

@docstranger9520 9 ай бұрын

Which brand and gauge strings do you use?

@PaulWolfe1 9 ай бұрын

@@docstranger9520 Weiss Ultra Cable, it only comes in one gauge, 17, which works great. Similar to Solinco Hyper G. It's hard to compare the gauge of square vs. round.

@aojajena 10 ай бұрын

Must add what is always not said. It's about poly. There are polyester and co-polyester strings as said, but there are co-polymer strings which is often not mentioned. Co-polyester is co-polymer. There are other co-polymer. There are mono core co-polymer strings which are not co-polyester. The most innovation is happening in co-polymers, especially softer strings that are spin friendly and gentle on the elbow and durable.

@BenQ10 10 ай бұрын

I haven’t yet got my head around this distinction. Can you list us some examples of co-polymer strings?

@aojajena 10 ай бұрын

@@BenQ10 Polyester aka polyethylene terephthalate aka PET was the main stream when it all began. Polyester is a polymer. Copolyester is a copolymer. Copolymer could be homo, alternating, random, block, graft. Majority of so called "copoly" strings are copolyester strings. There are other copolymers than copolyester. Polyether ether ketone aka polyetheretherketone aka PEEK is another polymer. Ashaway makes strings from it, branded Zyex. Polytetrafluoroethylene aka PTFE is a fluoropolymer, also used by Ashaway. Polypropylene aka polypropene aka PP could be used for core, e.g. in Isospeed Professional, though it's a multifilament string category. Monofilament Weiss Cannon Silverstring has a label co-polymer, which might be co-polyester or something else.

@BenQ10 10 ай бұрын

@@aojajena Thanks!

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

Very true...discussed going in that direction and then realized we would have a 30 min vid on our hands and decided to omit them. Def worth checking out though!

@aojajena 9 ай бұрын

Here we go, looks like Luxilon Alu Power is not a polyester or co-polyester. It's poly-ether-ether, which is Polyether Ether Something.

@NickNeras 10 ай бұрын

STRINGS AND TENSION TENSION AND STRINGS

@kcazzzzz 10 ай бұрын

I feel that you got the multifilament and synthetic gut mixed up. multifilament is the sting which is constructed in the likeness of natural gut, to mimic natural gut's performace, even though natural gut is still superior to it. multifilament is the poor man's natural gut. and synthetic gut is the string constructed to look like it is a cross between natural gut and poly, with a big solid core in the middle like poly, and hundreds of small nylon fibres surrounding to solid core like natural gut. synthetic gut is the tweener between natural gut and poly, has all the advantage of both natural gut and poly, but at a much lower performance, and also has the disadvantages of both as well, but the disadvantage is not as bad compared to natural gut or poly

@K4R3N 10 ай бұрын

Send this video to Ian Westerman

@artimtoska5779 4 ай бұрын

I disagree that you have to be above 4.0 to play with gut. I’m 3.5 player and use Gut in a Hybrid with poly(champions choice). Can play for hours & dont feel any discomfort in my arm, unlike players at my sports center all play with poly and have arm sleeves on. Its more expensive than most string but i change mine out every 4 months whick is not bad compared to most changing thier full bed of poly every month. Upu also dont have to be a “millionaire “ to play with these strings. 44-48 dollars every four months is woth it for me.

@Dom-yv4nq 10 ай бұрын

Hey guys, and then there's the shaped and textured strings. 😂 next time...

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

lol...we def discussed going in that direction but felt the 12 minute run time was prob enough

@Dom-yv4nq 9 ай бұрын

@@Playyourcourt The discussion about string could literally last for hours.

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

@@Dom-yv4nq FACTS!

9 ай бұрын

I challenge anyone to take on a scientific experiment to show if, by how much and who can tell a difference in strings. I would say a group of test users should receive several identical rackets with only the string type being the difference. Also, another control group is required where they receive several identical rackets with exact same strings without them knowing. My guess is that it will be like blind taste testing of wine where most people won't know the difference between $5 wine versus $5,000 wine.

@steinanderson9849 9 ай бұрын

look up tennis warehouse - approx. 90% of spin is independent of string. feel, durability, tension maintenance are the only variables between strings.

@zanido9073 21 күн бұрын

We can dream.

@ts440s Ай бұрын

Delpo destroyed his arm with luxilon big banger.

@eincan1313 10 ай бұрын

In my opinion nothing plays better than natural gut mains and a smooth poly cross. The only problem is durability. I get maybe 6-7 hours before it snaps, but it hits phenomenal.

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

100%

@tcjensen1 5 ай бұрын

Federer’s main verticals are natural gut. Not crosses. You guys use natural gut crosses with poly mains???

@Oxigan2win 8 ай бұрын

dont think its serious to make such a video if you selling those products in your shop.

@sebastiandomagala9233 10 ай бұрын

Covered it? Nope. Beware of hybrid strings, expecially if you are not the kind of player who breaks them. Let a hybrid sit in the racquet for too long and it will bend. But nobody seems to bother. And yes, the higher the number of the gauge, the thicker it is. Just not in the USA, where instead of an actual size (like in millimeters) you use random numbers. Might as well use letters, colours or flavours (cherry size, pls!).

@peterparahuz7094 10 ай бұрын

it is far from random. the AWG was designed for the electrical industry. of course tennis strings dont conduct electric current, so all you are left with is this unusual scale reciprocal to its diameter.

@Playyourcourt 9 ай бұрын

cherry size...yes please! lol

@peterparahuz7094 9 ай бұрын

kirschbaum?@@Playyourcourt