Most comfortable poly?

Marcin

Rookie
Hi,
Can you say what are the most comfortable poly strings?
I am using now and always Yonex Poly Tour Pro 1.25 - is there one with more comfort?
 
18g ALU power TiMO felt really plush, and for the first 10 hours ALU rough feels sublime too. I’ve heard good things about the YPTP from Yonex too.


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guilhermefdc

Semi-Pro
I've tested a bunch of the above strings in search for a comfy poly - all are really nice strings:
- Isospeed Cream is probably the most comfortable one, but doesn't hold tension really well
- Kirschbaum Proline Evolution is really comfortable, but I found it to have a kinda "meh"/dull felling: not crisp, not muted, hard to describe
- Tour Bite Soft is great, reminds me a bit of the regular Alu
- Poly Tour Pro is great - the 1.25 is comfortable already, but the 1.20 is a lot more. Also, I've found the yellow more comfortable than the graphite one (tried it as a suggestion from a forum member)

On top of that, I'd add:
- Weiss Cannon Silverstring - specially the 1.20. Holds tension decently, nice feel (a little bit on the softer side, not a lot of crispness/harshness) and really really comfortable. It's the string I've settled upon for the time being. Couldn't stand playing gut/poly or multi (including Velocity).

I would also test different gauges of the same string. Some thinner ones are harsher than the thicker ones (Hyper G comes to mind - I did not like 1.15 at all), but for some it's the opposite (e.g. Poly Tour Pro and Silverstring). My preferred gauge is 1.20 or so, FWIW...
 

Syfo-Dias

Professional
- Isospeed Cream is probably the most comfortable one, but doesn't hold tension really well

I had the opposite experience with Isospeed Cream. I used it in a gut/poly hybrid and felt like it held tension pretty well. Especially considering how soft it is. That was the 1.28 gauge though, so the 1.23 gauge might not hold tension as well.
 
Isospeed Cream and Yonex Poly Tour Air; Isospeed Cream 1.23 rates slightly stiffer than Yonex Poly Tour Air 1.25 - which is down at 155! - but the Cream has some softer elements in it.
 
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blai212

Hall of Fame
tourna big hitter silver 7 tour is quite soft and so is signum pro poly plasma, i use hybrid with shaped mains


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g4driver

Legend
If a rubber band and a poly string could mate, Isospeed Cream would be the outcome. Definitely the softest of all "polys" but it seems like "half poly/half rubber" when I string it. FYI a USTA 4.5 client with TE snapped it in crosses in less than two hours in two frames with Head Hawk 1.25mm mains in a 16x18 Prince Warrior. I restrung his frames for free as Hawk/Cream was my suggestion due to his history of TE. The same player gets 4-6 weeks out of 1.30mm Volkl Cyclone Tour with no TE issues whatsoever.
 
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If a rubber band and a poly string could mate, Isospeed Cream would be the outcome. Definitely the softest of all "polys" but it seems like "half poly/half rubber" when I string it. FYI a USTA 4.5 client with TE snapped it in crosses in less than two hours in two frames with Head Hawk 1.25mm mains in a 16x18 Prince Warrior. I restrung his frames for free as Hawk/Cream was my suggestion due to his history of TE. The same player gets 4-6 weeks out of 1.30mm Volkl Cyclone Tour with no TE issues whatsoever.

I had a similar experience with cream. It felt ok for an hour and then it lost all of the performance characteristics of a poly and snapped. I got better spin and control from a full bed of gut than gut/cream.


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SinneGOAT

Hall of Fame
I find going down in gauge helps. Hyper G Soft 1.20 is a lot softer than 1.25, and I imagine the 1.15 is even softer.
 
But air feels stiffer than cream, right?
Not necessarily; as others have mentioned Cream sometimes seems to possess a slight metallic ping for want of a better description. I find that they’re both great as cross strings - a lot of players will cut through them pretty quickly in full bed.
I’ve been using them with Yonex PT Rev mains lately; Volkl CT mains are also great, but your need to be wary of the tension loss. Rev maintains adequate tension until I break it.
 
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