Comfort in tennis racquets and strings reduces fatigue during long matches and practice. Find grip size, dampening technology, and string selection methods here.
I restrung one frame twice. Same racquet, same 53-pound reference tension on the same machine, but one bed went in as a full set of polyester and the other as a soft multifilament.
Pick up a pack of premium multifilament and somewhere on the back you will find a comfort claim with a number attached — Tecnifibre has marketed its multifilaments around "comfort and power," and…
If you have ever finished a long baseline session with a dull ache behind the elbow and blamed your polyester, you have run into the comfort-versus-durability question that this tennis string review…
The number we kept coming back to is 0.42 millimeters. That is roughly how much one quality overgrip adds to the radius of a handle — which works out to about 1/16 inch of added circumference, or…
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.