Does TW do proportional stringing and have the playtesters tried it?

kenyee

Semi-Pro
Sergetti, etc. is what I mean..

Would also be interesting to see a graph of how much each playtester switches racquets in your playtester profiles list too.
Working at TW must make you a bit addicted to trying and switching to all the new stuff if you're a racquetholic ;-)
 

TW Staff

Administrator
@kenyee,

We have not tried proportional stringing, or Sergetti stringing. The only change of tension we do while stringing, are some of the common practices. For example, pulling tighter on the last strings before tying off, or a few pound difference between the mains and crosses of a hybrid.

Unfortunately, we do not have graphs of how often our playtesters switch racquets. Here is a fun thread, where Chris listed his racquet history over the years: https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/ind...-official-frame-history.572448/#post-10629780.

As this thread was a couple of years ago, he has switched twice since then, to the Yonex EZONE DR 98+, and currently the Tecnifibre TFlash 300 PS.


Happy Hitting,
Troy, TW
 

Irvin

Talk Tennis Guru
TW uses a lockout machine. Sergetti stringing on a lockout is not recommended but I can't see why it wouldn't work. May have something to do with the way the algorithms compute the tensions.
 

speedysteve

Legend
I pull twice and Sergetti.

Pulling twice gives me a string bed tension when confirmed with Racquet Tune to be spot on.
That is for normal stringing.

Sergetti gives a 3 to 4 lb higher Racquet Tune result.
But it feels plush as you like.

I've found this to be excellent for cold weather, wet clay play.
 

TW Staff

Administrator
How does it hold up over time? I have tried proportional in the past and found after 3 or so hits the overall tension seemed to even out with the resulting feel of tension loss and a too lively response. Felt great for the first few hits, though.

Cheers,
Chris, TW
PS - Yes, the temptation to switch racquets frequently is great since we are constantly testing new racquets (quite often more than we get to hit our actual racquets). Some resist the temptations better than others! We have a phrase we use when someone on the team is switching a lot, but it can't be repeated here :)
 

speedysteve

Legend
I think like many subjective things, your brain accepts and normalises. You simply forget.
In hifi terms it's burn in..

Personally over time it seems fine.
For Sergetti stringing I marked every string by the grommets and none of them have moved.
This is after a couple of weeks playing 3-4 times a week.
Lashing out on forehands, backhands and serves for all I'm worth.

For the tension to even out, the tight string must give to the skacker one..
This would in my mind result in the marks moving.

Of course the whole string bed will be losing tension but the relative string individual tension holds.

I've only used Head Rip Control mains and Prince Premier Touch crosses. Perhaps very slick poly could slip more, but tensioned up the strings bind with the grommet wrap around pretty tightly..
 
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JBH

Rookie
For the tension to even out, the tight string must give to the skacker one..
This would in my mind result in the marks moving.

Of course the whole string bed will be losing tension but the relative string individual tension holds.

It would be better if that were the case, as tension would normalize across strings. Unfortunately, what is happening (more for poly than most multis) is that the strings with higher tension are taking the majority or the impact force and deforming to a far greater extent. While that also has the effect of normalizing tension, it changes the string’s elasticity differentially as well, which isn’t a good thing.
 
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