BMW Open 2012 - String jobs

Lavs · May 7, 2012

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some mobile upload from stringer room

mikeler · May 7, 2012

Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Lavs · May 7, 2012

did not manage to watch Baghdatis game but really would like to know which Fischer he uses.. my bet old Vacuum Pro MP (Kafelnikov)...

pug · May 7, 2012

Lavs,

Thank you very much, great to know what they are using and what tension.

Bartelby · May 7, 2012

I string like Falla.

Up&comer · May 7, 2012

Wow. Tsonga strings at 34/29. That's quite a tension difference.

Rjtennis · May 7, 2012

Cool stuff. Thanks!

esgee48 · May 7, 2012

I wonder how Kukushkin can use 18/18 kg? That barely under 40# of tension.

Ronaldo · May 7, 2012

X-Man keeps it old school.

bkpr · May 7, 2012

Up&comer said:
Wow. Tsonga strings at 34/29. That's quite a tension difference.

I think thats 31/29, looking at the other 1s.

Europeans tend to draw long accents on their number 1s. A generalisation I know, but my parents do it, and whenever I've noticed this style I've noted it's come from a European. I quite like it. Also love the 9s with their lowercase g-like descenders.

Ghost · May 7, 2012

Up&comer said:
Wow. Tsonga strings at 34/29. That's quite a tension difference.

31/29, not 34/29

Up&comer · May 7, 2012

bkpr said:
I think thats 31/29, looking at the other 1s.

Europeans tend to draw long accents on their number 1s. A generalisation I know, but my parents do it, and whenever I've noticed this style I've noted it's come from a European. I quite like it. Also love the 9s with their lowercase g-like descenders.

Ghost said:
31/29, not 34/29

My fault

Mighty Matteo · May 7, 2012

32/32 kg is over 70 pounds. How does Peya still have an arm?

Ronaldo · May 7, 2012

Alexander Peya still old school too. Knows pain is such an important thing in life. A player should experience suffering.

drakulie · May 7, 2012

Only 3 players using RPM.

OriginalHockeytowner · May 7, 2012

Very cool picture! 3 players using VS/Alu hybrid, and one with the VS/RPM Blast hybrid, very interesting stuff.

Mike Bulgakov · May 7, 2012

Lavs said:
did not manage to watch Baghdatis game but really would like to know which Fischer he uses.. my bet old Vacuum Pro MP (Kafelnikov)...

I don't think he ever really switched from this frame. I still have several of these; it is a great racquet, in my opinion.

ericsson · May 8, 2012

Mighty Matteo said:
32/32 kg is over 70 pounds. How does Peya still have an arm?

While it's still on the higher side he did go down some kilo's, a few years ago he strung around 37kg (81lbs)

Keep in mind he doesnt use a poly but a high end multi which is veryyyyy elastic...

ls206 · May 8, 2012

Thanks for posting, interesting stuff.
I thought that some of those players were with priority 1.
Or does the tourney get string info just incase?

drakulie · May 8, 2012

ls206 said:
Thanks for posting, interesting stuff.
I thought that some of those players were with priority 1.
Or does the tourney get string info just incase?

Priority One provides stringing at the 4 majors and the 1000 Master series.

Lavs · May 8, 2012

ls206 said:
Thanks for posting, interesting stuff.
I thought that some of those players were with priority 1.
Or does the tourney get string info just incase?

no, I did a snapshot of that in stringer block. That list is what actually stringers have been done..

Bart · May 11, 2012

Funny, I have the picture from 2004, it looks practically identical, those guys still have the same pens and sheets

Hmm, and many players from 2004 still are in the new list!

http://i48.tinypic.com/14u0eh.jpg

King_roger · May 11, 2012

Pretty interesting racket stats:

2012
Head 9
Wilson 8
Babolat 6
Prince 4
Fischer 2
Donnay 1
Yonex 1

2004
Head 11
Dunlop 4
Babolat 3
Prince 3
Fischer 2
Wilson 2
Völkl 2
Yonex 2

thienzsch · May 11, 2012

2004 James Blake was at 68 lbs !!

Ronaldo · May 11, 2012

thienzsch said:
2004 James Blake was at 68 lbs !!

Must be clay, pretty loose for JB.

Cup8489 · May 11, 2012

baghdatis reversed his main/cross setup huh?

I remember he used to have ALU power in the mains and VS in the crosses.

Also ditched the VS overgrip, using wilson pro now..

roc17355 · May 11, 2012

Even with the gut/poly hybrids doesnt seem to be the tension variance between the mains and crosses that a lot of the users here on the boards use.

mikeler · May 11, 2012

drakulie said:
Only 3 players using RPM.

Is that consistent with what you saw at Delray?

mtommer · May 11, 2012

King_roger said:
Pretty interesting racket stats:

2012
Head 9
Wilson 8
Babolat 6
Prince 4
Fischer 2
Donnay 1
Yonex 1

2004
Head 11
Dunlop 4
Babolat 3
Prince 3
Fischer 2
Wilson 2
Völkl 2
Yonex 2

I think it's interesting to see how Dunlop is has no racquet representation in 2012 which sucks to me because I love my Dunlops. Also, to see the rise of Babolat and Wilson taking prominence from Head. It's kind of crazy to see just how popular Babolat has become is so relatively short a time.

Bhagi Katbamna · May 11, 2012

Great job getting that pic.

Levente · May 11, 2012

Thanks for shareing

Chyeaah · May 12, 2012

What you guys should be looking at is ALU P ROUGH at 30kg... 66+ pounds, in a babolat as well, idk who d.brown is but from a google image search its in an APD... OUCH.

uk_skippy · May 12, 2012

Chyeaah said:
What you guys should be looking at is ALU P ROUGH at 30kg... 66+ pounds, in a babolat as well, idk who d.brown is but from a google image search its in an APD... OUCH.

That's on clay. On faster or indoor courts he tends to use 32kg!

Regards

Paul

808 · May 12, 2012

Chyeaah said:
What you guys should be looking at is ALU P ROUGH at 30kg... 66+ pounds, in a babolat as well, idk who d.brown is but from a google image search its in an APD... OUCH.

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRhJgDAagFY

Ronaldo · May 12, 2012

808 said:
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRhJgDAagFY

Pass the Dutchie behind the back, Mon

West Coast Ace · May 12, 2012

OP, thanks for posting the pic. Great stuff.

Tommy Haas, copying my setup again...

minimac · May 31, 2012

Hi Lavs - your BMW 2012 stringing log pic has dissapeared - would you be kind enough to email me - jra57a@gmail.com - Thanks

minimac · May 31, 2012

or anyone else who saved it - thanks

therogerfan · Jun 11, 2012

if possible, send me the pic via e-mail msokiryansky@gmail.com (yes, I do know it is a difficult one=)

Fuji · Jun 11, 2012

808 said:
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRhJgDAagFY

He looks almost identical to my tennis coach LOL!

-Fuji

freshhh · Aug 6, 2012

The picture has been deleted.

Could you please mirror the 2012 sheet?

TY

andtapes · Aug 6, 2012

What did happen with the picture?

drakulie · Aug 6, 2012

Here you go guys:

Up&comer · Aug 6, 2012

Thanks Drak. As for Marach, I assume it is lux original?

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