Do you use string savers?

[Tchocky]

I only use string savers when I'm using a full natural gut string job and I usually put them on the entire sweet spot. I always put them on after a new string job. I find that they prevent the stings from moving and make the strings last longer. I recently tried mixing Gamma string savers with Babolat string savers. I had some trouble applying the Gamma string savers and completed the job with Babolat string savers. The strings shortly broke afterwards. I'm curious if anyone else has tried mixing string savers and had their strings break shortly afterwards. Also, do you use string savers even if you're not playing with natural gut.

 

[hjminard]

Rarely use them. I'm not a big string breaker ... often strings will lose too much tension and need to be replaced before they break. So, while I have used savers in the past, I generally don't bother anymore.

 

[PBODY99]

I insert them when I notice fraying in a gut or multi job. One of my team makes inserts quite a few in the center of the string bed.

 

[JavierLW]

In all my Natural Gut setups (full and hybrid), Ive been covering the entire sweet spot with them after I get the racquet strung.

However on one of my setups (Tonic+ mains w/ Gosen OG Sheep SG X's), Ive wondered if that contributed to even more stiffness of the string bed. (Gosen is a pretty stiff string though for SG so it's hard to tell and I might of tensioned it too high)

In an all Natural Gut setup, I love how the racquet is playing so I will continue to put them in. I too would think that the limited string movement can only help produce more spin.

In the hybrids I may try something else. In my latest Tonic+ / NXT hybrid that I picked up today, I tryed putting the savers on every other intercetion in the sweet spot instead of every single one. Im going to see if this makes the string bed looser than what I am used to. (I can always add more)

I have one friend who doesnt use them at all in his NG / Babolat Xcel hybrid, and he usually notices that the Xcel Crosses start fraying before the NG (VS or Tonic+) starts to wear.