Polyester, multifilament, hybrids, natural gut. Each string tested for at least 20 hours across reference frames at three tensions, scored on eight metrics.
There is a belief that runs through every poly-string thread on every tennis forum: that an aggressive baseliner who wants spin and control has to play a firm, shaped, low-power co-polyester, and has…
A polyester string we pulled off the rack last month carried a printed "stability" score of 8.9 out of 10 on its packaging.
Good tennis string maintenance is not a date on a calendar — it is a function of how many hours you play, what string is in the racquet, and how attuned you are to the moment your control quietly…
A premium co-polyester string spool will tell you, somewhere on the packaging or the brand's site, that you are buying "tension stability" or "30% longer playability" or a "molecular structure…
Multifilament tennis strings get recommended to intermediate players more than any other type, usually with three words attached: power, comfort, feel.
We came to this tennis string review with one buyer in mind: the player who snaps a set in three or four sessions, wants the bite and precision of a co-poly, and is tired of being told the answer is…
You strung a fresh set of polyester, hit beautifully for a few sessions, and then somewhere around the two-week mark the racquet started feeling like a frying pan — stiff, lifeless, the ball flying…
RPM Blast is one of the most overrated strings on the market, and it is also one of the best polyester tennis strings you can put in a racquet. Both of those sentences are true.
You are standing at the stringing counter, the order form half filled in, and there is a blank box that says "gauge." The string you picked comes in three thicknesses, the thin one costs the same as…
You have probably asked it after a string job felt suddenly alive: did the new setup actually give me more power, or am I just swinging looser because the racquet feels better?
For a string that costs three to four times what a quality polyester does, natural gut tennis strings carry a stubborn reputation: relics for purists, priced for people who don't read the spec sheet.
The advice you hear in every pro shop and every elbow-pain forum thread is simple: if your arm is hurting, switch to natural gut.