thanks for your feedbackI can name 20+ 4.5 / 5.0 USTA rating men would completely disagree cutting out poly after 8-12 hours.
Steve Cohen is 5.0C rated USTA player who plays with three 374 gram Pure Control Tour Frames (16x20 ) with VCT 1.30mm until breakage. He gets 5-6 weeks out of every frame and plays 3-4 days a week singles and doubles.
Many clients think I'm a pretty good stringer. Not a pro stringer but I have a lot of clients and a lot of repeat customers and yes I buy a lot of strings.
I haven't hit with VCT before (only played with Luxilon/Babolat/Solinco polys), been trying to stay away from polys since coming back from tennis elbow, but may try it in the futureYes, I notice VCT dropping tension and moving around after 6 weeks or so. That's when it breaks. VCT is my number one choice of strings for 4.5/5.0 men. I have written about it numerous times in multiple threads, but I will steer back to Triax. I love Tecnifibre strings as a stringer. I have 60+ packs of HDX Tour 1.35mm, and two reels of HDMX 1.35mm for the 4.5 guys who don't like full poly and who like hybrids. IMO, Tecnifibre has the greatest family of multis available and I am looking forward to trying Triax and giving it a head to head comparison vs HDMX which replaced HDX Tour (discontinued). There is no way I am cutting out Triax in my own frames until the mains stick out of place on every point.
I played doubles with three 4.5 guys this am. I string for all of them. One is an Orthopedic Surgeon who plays with VCT 1.30mm until breakage with a Wilson Clash 98. He had five Pure Drives and recently switched to the Clash 98. He typically breaks strings in two to three frames a month. He breaks strings faster than most clients I have. Another 4.5 is an Electrophysiologist (a type of cardiologist) who using RPM Blast Rough 1.25mm/HDMX 1.35mm in a Pure Strike 100. He breaks the 1.35mm HDMX. He gives me two frames a month like clockwork. The other guy uses a Yonex VCore Pro 97 with Hyper G 1.25mm and restrings prior to breakage. What's my point? You don't have to cut all polys at the 8-12 hour mark and you can hit and win with polys that last 20-30 hours. Cohen gets 30+ hours on every frame uses with no TE issues.
Let's get this clear: I am a total hack of a player. My serve is a total abomination, with Phil Nikro knuckleball speed, but I can place it where I want it rather effectively. Lost my serve today once and won 2&5 thanks to luck, net cords, and frustrating my friends.
Have I got a bridge I'd like to sell to you!So Medvedev is using it???
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Yes, it's ridiculous. At least they didn't put a bikini on him.
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Listening to it right now, great discussion!
I could get spin out of it, but polys don't stick out of place on the first outing. I keep wanting to go back to my other frames. We lost 3-6, 6-3, 10-8, and I hit every ball I could turn back to dear old dad.
I am positive she is. Disclaimer: I haven't checked the other planets.
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Just listening to the podcast after I wrote my comments. Who is JDub? Love this guy! His comments at 35:49 should be a Sticky Thread. I have a few questions and some comments. Is Michelle the friendliest person "on this planet" other than Chris Martin from Coldplay?
Can someone at TW lease tell Julie G. in Germany the 19-Year Old I hit against last night plays for Arkansas State in Jonesboro, AR? What a small small world. What a nice young lady and so much fun to hit against a player of her caliber compared to a hack like myself. If her dad wasn't on the court, the score would have been more like 1&1 for her. Was Julie the one breaking Triax in 3 hours or was that Kristen? I friend's son's play for Wisconsin so another coincidence. Clearly the women in this Podcast are outstanding players who are fun to hit with and watch hit. I have to finish up the podcast as I string a few more frames this afternoon. Just getting into the Q&A session but want to say thank you for the podcast.
I am hitting singles against a 6'5" 4.0 tonight with his +4 Ape Index and will give Triax another go.
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(But I definitely am not always the nicest on the court in the thick of competing...let's just say I'm passionate!)
So I just have a personal preference for natural colored multis, no stencils on my frame, and clothes that don't match brands.
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I also prefer natural color strings. Hopefully I'll be able to get past my health issues and get back on court next year.Sorry for the delayed reply. There are two things that really make me like HDX Tour. 1) It feels closer to X1 than the other two 2) it's Natural Color. That is just a personal preference That doesn't mean I don't like Velocity as a stringer. I string more Velocity than any other string. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't put Velocity in a couple of frames as a full bed or as a cross in a hybrid. Velocity is a string I love for two reasons 1) it's price 2) it's slick
HDMX comes in a reel, unlike HDX Tour. I use all three of these strings primarily as cross strings with smooth poly mains. To me HDMX feels more muted that HDX Tour in a full bed, but like HDX Tour comes in 1.35mm in the US and both of those strings will last longer than the same gauge of Velocity due to the poly fibers in them. So 1.30mm HDX Tour or 1.30mm HDMX > 1.30mm Velocity for durability.
Lastly, I have dayglow yellow Babolat 2016 Pure Aero+ frames. When you put a dayglow yellow string (HDMX) in a dayglow yellow frame and you use a yellow tennis ball, yeah, that's a lot of yellow.
They’re calling it a multifilament with copoly fibres, so the playability is in between the two. Sounds interesting. Are there any other strings on the market like this?
Are you computing impulse correctly? The string and ball are only together for a few milliseconds.
4.5-5.0 baseliner
He was snapping 1.30mm Hyper G / 1.25mm in roughly 12 hours for two years, until he got TE after a singles league. He snaps 1.35mm Touch Tonic too quickly (maybe 12 hours) to be cost-effective, but he definitely likes the YPTA Air crosses and didn't know it was a "poly" at all. When I explained all four of these strings are blends of different materials, with YPTA a fusion of poly and elastomer (rubber). If he picks Triax, I will certainly get the 1.38mm for him. He has no issue generating massive amounts of spin with any string I put in his frame.
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What racquet do they use?1.33mm Triax, 1.35mm HDMX , and 1.35mm HDX Tour are battling it out for the mains for a 4.5C former collegiate player in his six Ai98 frames with Yonex Poly Tour Air 1.25mm crosses. Ok, so HDX Tour 1.35mm is discontinued, but I have a lot of it left. Just want him to playtest all three setups before picking his favorite. He has gone through a lot of setups lately trying to find something that allows him to get 10 hours before breaking the mains, and not hurting his elbow. This has been a long process.
Requests: No poly, last longer than 10 hours, and less than $12 a set. I got the price down to $9 a frame for strings, plus $15 labor, so he back to $24 a frame which is what he was paying for Hyper G/ Head Head.
If anyone is looking for a soft setup, these work for Will Shelly, who was bumped to 5.0 in Dec 2019 before he hit the appeal button.
Yonex POLYTOUR AIR 16L/1.25 String | Tennis Warehouse
I’m betting that combo plays pretty well too. I’ve got a set of the 1.33mm Triax but haven’t tried it yet. I’ll probably try a FB first in an 18x20 to see how it plays and then look at possible hybrid options. I was thinking with Cream but you’ve got me thinking about PTA.1.33mm Triax, 1.35mm HDMX , and 1.35mm HDX Tour are battling it out for the mains for a 4.5C former collegiate player in his six Ai98 frames with Yonex Poly Tour Air 1.25mm crosses. Ok, so HDX Tour 1.35mm is discontinued, but I have a lot of it left. Just want him to playtest all three setups before picking his favorite. He has gone through a lot of setups lately trying to find something that allows him to get 10 hours before breaking the mains, and not hurting his elbow. This has been a long process.
Requests: No poly, last longer than 10 hours, and less than $12 a set. I got the price down to $9 a frame for strings, plus $15 labor, so he back to $24 a frame which is what he was paying for Hyper G/ Head Head.
If anyone is looking for a soft setup, these work for Will Shelly, who was bumped to 5.0 in Dec 2019 before he hit the appeal button.
Yonex POLYTOUR AIR 16L/1.25 String | Tennis Warehouse
Any idea when data of the 17g version of Triax will be posted on TWU?
I tried it in a full bed in my Vcore. I'm a long time poly user and Triax is still something totally different. It just didn't have the bite and pocketing I'm so used to, and the same control just wasn't there. On the other hand, if you like multis, it's certainly worth a try. I might still give it another try in a hybrid setup together with some poly.
