Nadal's one piece string job?

ivanh · Jul 9, 2013

It seems that his racquet is stringed with only one piece of string despite Babolat recommending it to be done with two. Is that alright or am I missing something?

m2nk2 · Jul 9, 2013

He's only had RPM blast the last few years afaik. Don't think Bab is recommending one or the other really.

Irvin · Jul 9, 2013

ivanh said:
It seems that his racquet is stringed with only one piece of string despite Babolat recommending it to be done with two. Is that alright or am I missing something?[/QUOTE]

Babolat does recommend two piece but allow one piece. But more importantly if the player does not specify the pattern the stringing room will string all rackets with a specific pattern and that is more often than not one piece if only one string is used.

pmata814 · Jul 9, 2013

Irvin said:
Babolat does recommend two piece but allow one piece. But more importantly if the player does not specify the pattern the stringing room will string all rackets with a specific pattern and that is more often than not one piece if only one string is used.

Irvin, in this case would they use around the world or would they just keep it simple and string crosses bottom-up?

diredesire · Jul 9, 2013

pmata814 said:
Irvin, in this case would they use around the world or would they just keep it simple and string crosses bottom-up?

Depends on the tournament/team policy. IIRC Nadal's personal preference is bottom up -- I could be mis-remembering this one, though. That was back in the day when he played duralast.

uk_skippy · Jul 9, 2013

Irvin said:
......more importantly if the player does not specify the pattern the stringing room will string all rackets with a specific pattern and that is more often than not one piece if only one string is used.

diredesire said:
Depends on the tournament/team policy. IIRC Nadal's personal preference is bottom up -- I could be mis-remembering this one, though. That was back in the day when he played duralast.

His 'personal stringer' will strung his rqts 2 piece, and it's something we've followed at Wimbledon once we learned this information. As for other tournaments, as Irvin has said, unless specified the stringer/team will do it their way. This maybe 1 or 2 piece.

Regards

Paul

diredesire · Jul 9, 2013

uk_skippy said:
His 'personal stringer' will strung his rqts 2 piece, and it's something we've followed at Wimbledon once we learned this information. As for other tournaments, as Irvin has said, unless specified the stringer/team will do it their way. This maybe 1 or 2 piece.

Regards

Paul

Paul, have you heard anything about a bottom up preference? I recall reading something unusual about Nadal's setup, and I could have sworn it was being strung bottom up. I don't recall whether or not it was one/two piece... Thanks for the inside confirmation.

uk_skippy · Jul 10, 2013

^^^I think I've heard that before, but Nadal isn't actually that fussy as long as it hits right. Chances are it would have been 1 piece.

Regards

zapvor · Jul 10, 2013

skippy with awesome info as well. thank you sir

uk_skippy · Jul 11, 2013

Always happy to help.

Regards

Paul

ericsson · Jul 15, 2013

Nadal his rackets are strung 2-piece and head to bottom on official tournaments (strung by Xavi Segura)
I saw him stringing live at the scene, he was stringing Rafa's racket.

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