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After some eye opening matches recently, I've decided to give Tourna Black 7 a try. My normal string is 17 gauge Silver 7 Tour, which I string at 47/43 or thereabouts.
Tennis Warehouse to the rescue - I ordered both the 17 and 18 gauge versions, because of the understanding that the gauges don't exactly match between the two string types.
Strung it up at 51/46 with the 17 gauge as a first try. It quite different than Silver 7 Tour. It's thicker, more plasticky feeling, with more coil memory. It does elongate a little bit more when pulling tension, but not that much. I pulled 50 pounds tension on a one foot section and let it sit for a minute. Repulling tension required an extra 5 mm.
RacquetTune says 47.6 pounds right off the string, using my default string factor that is not representative of the string (I only use RacquetTune to track tension loss, not for absolute numbers). My other racquet with Silver 7 Tour near the end of it's life is at 41.5 pounds. It would have started off somewhere in the 44.5-45 pound range.
Will hit with it tomorrow. Not sure what to expect based on the way different feel of the string. Hoping for roughly the same spin capability and a bit more free power, and I'll deal with the lower level of control.
Tennis Warehouse to the rescue - I ordered both the 17 and 18 gauge versions, because of the understanding that the gauges don't exactly match between the two string types.
Strung it up at 51/46 with the 17 gauge as a first try. It quite different than Silver 7 Tour. It's thicker, more plasticky feeling, with more coil memory. It does elongate a little bit more when pulling tension, but not that much. I pulled 50 pounds tension on a one foot section and let it sit for a minute. Repulling tension required an extra 5 mm.
RacquetTune says 47.6 pounds right off the string, using my default string factor that is not representative of the string (I only use RacquetTune to track tension loss, not for absolute numbers). My other racquet with Silver 7 Tour near the end of it's life is at 41.5 pounds. It would have started off somewhere in the 44.5-45 pound range.
Will hit with it tomorrow. Not sure what to expect based on the way different feel of the string. Hoping for roughly the same spin capability and a bit more free power, and I'll deal with the lower level of control.