Masters 1000 Rome stringing log

[andtapes]

Thank you Eiffel and Skippy

[klementine79]

Thank you very much gentleman for the time, effort and attention. Great thread!!!




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Originally Posted by Torres

I'm not bothered about the pros, I'm curious as to whether BBO would work for me. I love Alu, but its dead after about 3 hours of hitting.

BBO works great in soft, open pattern frames for me. It is more resilient than alu and will last twice as long, in terms of feel. Unlike alu, I don't like it in a hybrid, full bed feels best.

[leoresende2007]

Originally Posted by Eiffel59

An MSV-based rough poly with gamma ray treatment for better elasticity and tension retention. Two models, the white one is used by A-Tomic and the carbon black one is tested by Wawrinka.




Davydenko did actually switch.

Which leather grip is this? Head or Babolat?

[edwincen]

Originally Posted by leoresende2007

Which leather grip is this? Head or Babolat?

I think its yonex's

[Mig1NC]

Gamma rays? Are they trying to make the Hulk string?

[Eiffel59]

Originally Posted by edwincen

I think its yonex's

No it's Head, as you can clearly see from the golden "H" at the top of the handle.

Retail Head Leather Tour replacement grip from my shop's stock.

[TennisManiac]

Very interesting thread. Thanks for sharing.

[topspin18]

Very informative thread!!!!

One question, when a player uses full set of a poly or Any other string, do you guys string it two piece if the mains end at the throat or do you guys use ATW patterns?

[ben123]

btw istomin is with blackcode now? his strings are not red anymore

thank you for all the infos. would be cool if you keep posting stringsetups from pros. i think thats interesting ^^

[Eiffel59]

Originally Posted by topspin18

Very informative thread!!!!

One question, when a player uses full set of a poly or Any other string, do you guys string it two piece if the mains end at the throat or do you guys use ATW patterns?

Liam ATW pattern if no 4 knots specifically required, except Babolat's PDs-APDs

[uk_skippy]

Originally Posted by Eiffel59

Liam ATW pattern if no 4 knots specifically required, except Babolat's PDs-APDs

Do you not use the specific Wilson Team ATW pattern then?

[ewberner]

Do you have the figures of how many restrings each play had? Or an average of restrings overall?

[Hankenstein]

All Prince EXO3 Tour players use same string (Luxilon Big Banger Original) at almost same tension, 24/23 kg´s.

[000KFACTOR90000]

Originally Posted by ewberner

Do you have the figures of how many restrings each play had? Or an average of restrings overall?

http://www.bigbanger.com/ some interesting data from luxilon if you click on the pro tour section on the far right, then check out US Open 2010 file.

[Eiffel59]

Originally Posted by uk_skippy

Do you not use the specific Wilson Team ATW pattern then?

Just a couple of us had previous high level tournament experience (outside me, that is), but all the team seemed to know Liam's ATW..so, i decided to go with it.

@ewberner: "average" means nothing, since most of the top players restring larger numbers of frames regularly (obviously) and low-ranked less or less frequently; nevertheless, "average" was eight for men an six for women.

[ChicagoJack]

Awesome thread. Couldn't help myself, had to give this a good long stare.

Full Poly : 82
Gut / Poly : 22
Poly / Gut : 20
Full Nylon : 5
Full Gut : 2
Poly / Nylon : 1
Nylon / Poly : 1

Doubles Players Using Gut / Poly:
1. B. Bryan
2. M. Bryan
3. Mahesh Bhupati
4. Max Mirnyi
5. Daniel Nestor
6. Leander Paes
7. Qureshi
8. Radek Stepanek

What The Other Doubles Players Are Using :
1. Granollers (LXN Orig)
2. Marc Lopez (LXN Orig)
3. Lindstedt (ALU/Gut)
4. Lisa Raymond (VS Team)
5. Paola Suarez (Prince Syngut)
6. Marcin Matkowski (Poly/Gut)
7. Jonathan Marray (Poly/Gut)

Noteworthy : Full poly by a wide margin. Lux Original still has a lot of fans. Gut/Poly only slightly edges out Poly/Gut, thought that would be a no contest even with singles players. Five players using full nylon, and only two using full gut. The current top 6 ATP doubles points leaders all use Gut / Poly. Paolo Suarez is still playing Syngut.

Jack

[15_ounce]

Originally Posted by ART ART

Volandri... 12kg !

This is good stuff

Old news... he beat Federer a few years ago with the same tension, also in Rome.

I like low tension, especially when doing a very long sparring session. i string mine at 18 to 20 kg.