2025 ezone synthetic gut, multifilament string?

[doninva]

There are two great threads on stringing the Yonex 2025 ezone 98 with poly and hybrids. Is there anyone trying full beds of synthetic gut or multifilament in the Yonex 2025 ezone? If so, could you give your string of choice, tension and how it plays for you. It may give some, interested in skipping poly and poly /gut a starting point.

 

[VanDerVaart23]

There are two great threads on stringing the Yonex 2025 ezone with poly and hybrids. Is there anyone trying full beds of synthetic gut or multifilament in the Yonex 2025 ezone? If so, could you give your string of choice, tension and how it plays for you. It may give some, interested in skipping poly and poly /gut a starting point.

Power from Ezones is better to tame and increase spin with Poly.
If you play a beginner, low intermediate level, multi will be great cause you will only need to put the racquet up to the ball to keep playing.
If you looking for multis maybe Velocity is a good choice

 

[doninva]

Power from Ezones is better to tame and increase spin with Poly.
If you play a beginner, low intermediate level, multi will be great cause you will only need to put the racquet up to the ball to keep playing.
If you looking for multis maybe Velocity is a good choice

To be honest, l don't hit hard enough to play poly. My elbow, with poly tour pro, is starting to warn me of my bout with tennis elbow. I never realized that the 2025 ezone was so powerful that you don't have to swing at the ball. I'll try to "put the racket up to the ball" and see how it goes.

 

[AmericanTwist]

Which ezone? You can string it with full solid core syn gut if you are a beginner/intermediate. As you improve you may want to hybrid with poly either on the main or cross strings.

 

[doninva]

Which ezone? You can string it with full solid core syn gut if you are a beginner/intermediate. As you improve you may want to hybrid with poly either on the main or cross

Which ezone? You can string it with full solid core syn gut if you are a beginner/intermediate. As you improve you may want to hybrid with poly either on the main or cross strings.

l should have put 2025 ezone 98 in the header, my bad. At 74, l don't know how much l can improve. I'm a 3.5 most days. I have lost 50 pounds, run 3-8 miles about 3 times a week with my wife, 17 years younger than me. She runs 5 and 10k races. I work out with hand weights every other day after l got my tennis elbow in check. I started this thread to maybe get some feedback on strings other than poly for the 2025 98 ezone. There are some great threads on poly and poly hybrids but some people can't handle poly, me include. I just cut the poly tour pro out of my 2025 ezone 98 and strung the mains with rip control 16 at 56 and crosses with multifeel 17 at 52. I use this in my Technifibre ISO 300 at 54/52 and it works well for me. I strung the ezone a little tighter due to the ra being 3 point lower than the Technifibre 300.

 

[Rabbit]

@doninva - my .02, I used Yonex Rexis Speed 1.25 @ 54 in my '25 EZ100s. It is an awesome string. I've used going on my 4th reel now. It has great control, spin, and feel. It's pricey, but IME & IMO it's worth it. I say that because it retains its playing characteristics a lot longer than a cheaper multi. It's also super arm/wrist friendly. I've got some 15L Prince Control strung up to try but it'll have to be pretty dang good to displace Speed. I've also purchased some Rexis Comfort to try but I've read in another thread that Speed is the more comfortable of the two.

 

[AmericanTwist]

OP you can try a shaped poly like msv focus hex, head lynx spin 2 rPet, Volkl Vsquare. I recommend all these shaped polys. Solinco hyper G is similar to focus hex. Go with poly on the mains and try solid core syn gut on the crosses. For a 98 at 3.5 NTRP I would try 48-52 lbs. You can try Gamma syn gut with wearguard, wilson syn gut power, prince SG with duraflex on the crosses. These are strings that I use.

 

[dje31]

Cyclone 17-19 mains, OGSM 17 in crosses, 5-10% lower on crosses

 

[Frankc]

@doninva - my .02, I used Yonex Rexis Speed 1.25 @ 54 in my '25 EZ100s. It is an awesome string. I've used going on my 4th reel now. It has great control, spin, and feel. It's pricey, but IME & IMO it's worth it. I say that because it retains its playing characteristics a lot longer than a cheaper multi. It's also super arm/wrist friendly. I've got some 15L Prince Control strung up to try but it'll have to be pretty dang good to displace Speed. I've also purchased some Rexis Comfort to try but I've read in another thread that Speed is the more comfortable of the two.

One would think that Yonex would produce very innovative strings within their own production process. Great that you have found that match for your game.
Truly amazing how far multis have come... Now, if only the pros would "paint job" their strings as multis (and put a few decals on bags that present multis), then maybe the rest of us may shift to strings that are really suited for the rec game - multis. ( And fewer posts on arm pain,)

 

[Rabbit]

Great that you have found that match for your game.

It is a really nice thing. It's amazing how the right string can improve your game/results. IMO, it's worth a half a level on the NTRP scale. In other words, the wrong set up can take your game down to a very frustrating level. I keep trying new strings, but really should settle. OTOH, being a stringer, knowing strings does help me recommend. Right now, I'm selling a lot of this Yonex string.

Truly amazing how far multis have come...

I couldn't agree more. Multis used to be mushy, short lived and lacking in control/spin. It's truly not the case now.

Now, if only the pros would "paint job" their strings as multis (and put a few decals on bags that present multis), then maybe the rest of us may shift to strings that are really suited for the rec game - multis. ( And fewer posts on arm pain,)

Once again, I couldn't agree more. I always hated the feel of poly, but love the results -- game-wise. After many years using it, and getting to be an old fart, I'm now paying the price. I don't think I'll ever be able to or want to, given how far multis have come, use poly again. I think for the vast majority of players poly is a bad idea. I've seen local teaching pros recommend poly to 3.0 - 3.5 players. I've personally moved a lot of 3.0 - 3.5 women from poly to either a multi or natural gut.

 

[fuzz nation]

To be honest, l don't hit hard enough to play poly. My elbow, with poly tour pro, is starting to warn me of my bout with tennis elbow. I never realized that the 2025 ezone was so powerful that you don't have to swing at the ball. I'll try to "put the racket up to the ball" and see how it goes.

Good for you. If you know that poly isn't going to do you any good, there's no need to waste your time and money with it. Give your arm a break and try life on the softer side. There are a lot of options, but no need to get lost with sampling everything at two or three different tensions and keeping notes on all of the above. There's more than one right answer out there for you and you'll recognize a nice setup (for you) when you feel it.

I'm always recommending syn. gut (SG) around here. Multis can often be a bit softer, but many multi's can also degrade rather fast and individual sets of "premium" multi's can easily cost three or four times as much as SG's. If your #1 priority is to protect a sensitive arm, I'd say that a multifiber is a smart option, but many SG options bring moderate softness to the recipe that can play much less harsh than a poly and still perform really well.

A 16 ga. SG will probably behave a little better in a racquet with a 98" hoop or above that also has a relatively open string pattern - 16 mains with perhaps 19 or 20 crosses. I sometimes like to put a 17 ga. SG in one of my 97" or 98" frames because I'm a fan of the touch and feel of thinner string, but that can be a little more tricky in terms of getting the tension right. If lighter gauge string has too little tension, it can lose control for me rather quickly, especially when it's hot outside in the middle of the summer.

I also prefer 17 ga. syn. gut or multifiber in a racquet that has a more dense pattern like 18x20.

Syn. guts are not all the same. Prince SG with Duraflex, Gamma SG with WearGuard, and Gosen OG Sheep Micro are all too stiff for me to enjoy in a full bed, but some folks get along with them fine. Moderately soft SG's that I like include Babolat, Prince Original SG, Volkl Classic, and Kirschbaum, which is my favorite. Forten Sweet is a syn. gut that's extra soft - it can actually work as a low-cost alternative to some multifibers.

The square-ish shape of the heads on Yonex racquets can make them play a little "bigger" than other frames having the same head size in a more traditional oval shape. Whenever I've used a Yonex, I've preferred a 16 ga. string at a couple extra pounds of tension compared with an oval-shaped alternative frame having a similar weight, balance, and string pattern along with the same head size as the Yonex. Your mileage may vary.

 

[dje31]

<Snip >Gosen OG Sheep Micro are all too stiff for me to enjoy in a full bed, but some folks get along with them fine. <Snip> Forten Sweet is a syn. gut that's extra soft - it can actually work as a low-cost alternative to some multifibers.

Interesting take on OGSM. I never found it stiff, but have it in 17 as crosses. I tried Forten Sweet 17 a while back, couldn't honestly tell any difference, but again, as crosses with a soft thin poly (Cyclone 19).

That said, I recently tried a full bed of OGSM 17 as an experiment (grew up on nothing but syn gut), and have no control whatsoever in my EZXi98. Going to try Cyclone 17 in the mains when I restring, with the OSGM17 in crosses.

 

[NCTennis]

Personally I’ve liked Prince lightening, head mlt and yonex dynawire 17 gauge 48 pounds in my racquet.