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I can say yes to that. I really rate Triumph with GW. Much better feel and touch than most other multis, and with GW you get a spin/control/snapback boost that lasts for quite a while.

I'm not the best person to talk about Babolats as I've only tried a couple of Babs and didn't like the feel. My understanding is that the Pure Drive is more powerful and better on defence. The PS100 is really an attacking-only racket for someone who always imparts their own power. It's primary...

As above, there's been a fair bit written about AK Pro CX as a hybrid with Gut mains. It's not as controlled as using Poly but the feel is good and it holds tension very well.

Yeah, I found the Eurostaff needed more stability when up against heavy balls. I seem to remember putting 1g each at 3 and 9, and then another gram at 12... (with a similar amount in the handle to balance)...which raised the swingweight to about 327 ish on mine. Obviously that sacrificed a bit...

It depends what you want for your style of play. When attacking, full poly is best to accentuate the control...but it's a very low powered frame and sometimes feels a bit anaemic on defense, so you might want a little more power from the strings.

Read about "nudging". There's a good book called "State of Fear" by Laura Dodsworth about how some governments use behavioural psychology (they have entire units and departments dedicated to this) to 'nudge' the public into certain viewpoints and thus choices. This is achieved both through...

Ah I've never used a Blade Pro unfortunately, so I can't compare. My understanding is that the BP is significantly higher swingweight so yes, the Six.One 100 is much more manoeuvrable...but i think they are in different categories to be honest.

It's a long story, which I won't go into, of why we were there. No, not jail, but let's just say no-one was going there expecting to find a tennis court. I'll post some pics later.

Multifeel - great value multifilament that doesn't move. Best option for those circumstances

It was a bit of both. I agree he would have tensed up more if I'd been able to consistently put him under more pressure, and he might have cursed his racket if I'd beaten him. True. And I agree he would have performed even better with a consistent, fine tuned setup of his preference. Not...

I met the best player I've ever faced earlier this year in a remote corner of Bolivia, 3 hours from the nearest tennis shop (and no online retail there). Amazingly there was a court and small club of (mostly foreign) players ... and this guy, from France, was the best of them. We became friends...

Yeah the consumer culture psychology is the biggest factor, I think. I know a player who can make any racket with any strings play awesome tennis, and he will play that string bed for months - long after the strings have lost elasticity - and he can still perform well (but not AS well). And then...

You've changed from saying we shouldn't waste our time talking about alternatives to the pro setups...to suggesting alternatives to the pro setups. I mean it's been nice going round in a beautiful and quite ironic circle... I've enjoyed it immensely...but you have to admit, THIS THREAD IS A...

Do you know how many times a pro player restrings in an average year, and how much it would cost a rec player to pay for all of that? If you don't mind the cost, fine, I agree it would save time...but for 99.9% of tennis players, cost IS a key factor as with anything else in life.

Multifeel has pretty good tension maintenance

Monfils uses the 18x20 and actually he uses a pro stock version, so not actually the same frame. I was talking about the 16x19, the one like the 6.1 100. Yes, people say it's like the Ultra Pro and the power level is still low, for sure, but I don't think it's less than the 6.1 100. I've never...

Actually, yes; the Artengo TR960 Control Tour plays very similarly and, I would say, has a more consistent stringbed. It has the same versatility in terms of spin and flat that you're talking about, fairly similar feel as well (semi-muted), and a little more power. The PS100 (I've only used...

Yeah, the Six One 100 is very much an attacking frame but quite weak and unstable on defense unfortunately. It makes for great tennis when you are safely within your comfort zone, playing with confidence...but when you come up against a bigger hitter, the lack of power is a real problem.

Firewire is not lightly shaped. It might be too erratic for your taste Tour Status might be your pick as with that frame you might prefer a string with more crisp feel Black Knight is what I use most but, as above, seems to perform best in a full bed. Duraflux is very low powered and suited to...

Good to hear you liked it. I find Triumph has pretty good feel/touch/feedback for a multi and when crossed with a poly, the power is tamed nicely but there's still good pop when needed around the net. Its weakness, inevitably, is longevity... but it's no worse than the average multi and if you...

I would think their companies have higher legal bills for trademark infringement for starters! Are they really all using that same name?!

Velocity full bed is nothing special but it excels with poly crosses, especially with Cream. Then you really start to get poly-like bite and control. Note, I only know Velocity natural colour.

Well, for some reason I almost never seem to break strings so your measurements may vary. For me it lasted 30 hours before it became too erratic and I had to cut it out.

Triumph is a little known gem, very similar to NXT and goes great with Ghostwire.

Thanks. So it seems your thinking was just to simply reverse the tensions of mains and crosses, thereby keeping the overall stringbed tension about the same. Is that it? How would you suggest I go about experimenting with this using gut mains @ 60, poly crosses @ 52. Please don't ask me to...

Very interesting, thank you. Would you mind listing your 'before' and 'after' specs to give us an idea of how each tension changed (mains and crosses) when you made this switch? Presumably you dropped the mains tension by a certain amount to compensate for the increased cross tension. Also...

As always these comparisons are hard to make as it depends a lot on the technique and power lever of the player, and the string tension and overall characteristics of the frame, but I'd guess the following. Based on my own game (4.5-5.0) : If Alu is a 9.5 for spin. I'd put Velocity FB at around...

Not the best paint on these, for sure.

Which colour is it? White or Yellow are 70RA Black or Red are 62RA

Ah, good to hear you liked it. Did you get the 70RA or 62RA? It's one of those frames that puts it exactly where you aim it...so it brutally exposes all your errors in technique and timing, which really forces me to focus.