Anyone who has tried the 16g&17g Tecnifibre X-One Biphase strings answer my question!

[Nobuhiko]

Hi, I've just went through a little case of tennis elbow and I'm just wondering if the gauge of the strings that may caused it. My racket is a Wilson nPro Open, decent racket, and I've went through 17g TF X-One Biphase, then 17g Wilson NXT, and now 16g TF X-One Biphase. I'm just wondering if the gauge of the X-One probably messed my arm up, because I didn't really felt much from the 17g's. So my question is this, Is stiffness different in gauges of a string, or the string itself is stiff? Thank you!

Nobu

 

[jasoncho92]

Seems like bad form if a soft multifilament is giving you tennis elbow

 

[Nobuhiko]

Yea that's what I also thought as well, but then again, I went a little experimental and strung the 16g x-one pretty high, like 64pds too, also thanks for the fast reply!

 

[Mike Danger]

I thought It was a little to stiff for my liking I had it strung at 62lbs (17g)
Still prefer Gamma Tnt Pro Plus 17L (at high tensions has more pop and feels crisper)

 

[grass_hopper]

it's the tension that probably caused it, miss hit on stiff racquet that has been strung tight does that. but the 17 gauge would cup the ball more and move too so it iloses tension faster and is better for a TE problem. of course you would end up with less control. I can only suggest go with 18 gauge X-1 or get a racquet with flexable ability.

 

[bsandy]

Nobuhiko . . . Been there.

Even a soft multi, at a tension of 64, will transmit a great deal of shock to your arm.

What I've done is put PSGD 17 in the Mains and NRG2 17 in the crosses, both at 60. My elbow problems are gone, and the control is better than NRG2 at 65.

 

[need2paint]

Nobuhiko . . . Been there.

Even a soft multi, at a tension of 64, will transmit a great deal of shock to your arm.

What I've done is put PSGD 17 in the Mains and NRG2 17 in the crosses, both at 60. My elbow problems are gone, and the control is better than NRG2 at 65.

It seems like a waste of $ to put the cheap string in the mains and the expensive one in the crosses. Have you tried it the other way around?

 

[bsandy]

It seems like a waste of $ to put the cheap string in the mains and the expensive one in the crosses. Have you tried it the other way around?

Tell that to all the people putting NG in their crosses with Polys.

No . . . I like it this way.

- PSGD lasts longer (for me) than any other string (I play in the humidity on clay).
- PSGD in the mains has more control than Multis in the mains.
- PSGD in the mains doesn't notch like Multis in the mains.

We hear a lot of people saying Hybrids give you the best of both worlds. Actually I view hybrids as using a cross string to get rid of bad characteristic of the mains.

- Crossing NG with Poly helps get rid of the power.
- Crossing NG with SG helps get rid of the price tag.
- Crossing Poly with NG helps get rid of the stiffness.
- Crossing PSGD with a Multi helps get rid of the stiffness.

To me it feels like a soft Poly, but last longer.

. . . Bud

 

[Nobuhiko]

Thanks again for all the replies everyone, and I've tried hybrids before, it was a nightmare forh me, because I tried to find the most popular one on stiff rackets and it was nice overall; power and control, but I just couldn't feel the ball which really irritated me it didn't feel right (sort of feel like hitting cotton or something), and even though I'm not a string breaker, I decided never to buy Natural Gut because I'm pretty poor and I live in a desert climate city, (I got the nPro Open as a gift from my coach), and I hardly buy string, so maybe I should do some more research on that. But I'll probably go back to the tecnifibre x-one 17g and put it at 55 to 57.

 

[Midlife crisis]

Hi, I've just went through a little case of tennis elbow and I'm just wondering if the gauge of the strings that may caused it. My racket is a Wilson nPro Open, decent racket, and I've went through 17g TF X-One Biphase, then 17g Wilson NXT, and now 16g TF X-One Biphase. I'm just wondering if the gauge of the X-One probably messed my arm up, because I didn't really felt much from the 17g's. So my question is this, Is stiffness different in gauges of a string, or the string itself is stiff? Thank you!

Nobu

According to the latest USRSA string tests:

http://www.racquetsportsindustry.com/articles/2006/09/string_selector_map_2006.html

the 1.24 and 1.30 gauge of X1 Biphase have the exact same stiffness under the test condition.

There will be a little bit of extra mass in the 1.30 string, which may make the racquet play a couple of percent effectively stiffer, but this is probably slight enough to not make a difference.

 

[Nobuhiko]

Thanks for the interesting article Midlife Crisis, didn't notice that, but if you notice the Wilson NXT 16 and 17 are different, so I may just have to revert back to the NXT though I really hate the string fraying and movement compared to the X-One Biphase, but maybe a combination of bad form and that extra mass with the stiffness of my racket may cause that slight irritation in my arm, so I'm gonna give the 17g TF X-One one more try, because those were the original strings that came with my racket when my coach bought it used, and the guy said he tension it the lowest which was roughly 53 or less, I liked it, but like what Grass_Hopper said it had the least control out of the 3 strings I've tried with this racket, so the NXT may be my 2nd choice if going back to 17g TF doesn't go well. So Thank You very much, I'll make sure I'll check the stiffness of strings from that site from now on.