Polyester tennis strings break down faster than gut or nylon. Explore durability data, spin potential, and best-case scenarios for synthetic string players.
If you have played with multifilament long enough to trust it, you already know its ceiling: the comfort you love starts to feel like a lack of control on your biggest swings.
A coach we trade notes with sent over a photo last month: a stringbed of Luxilon ALU Power, 16L, strung at 52 pounds, pulled out of the racquet after eleven days of doubles.
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…
Roughly nine of every ten men on the ATP tour string with some form of polyester. That number gets quoted constantly, usually right before someone tells you to switch.
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…
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…