the 24 hours-after-stringing theory

[tennisfreak15347]

I've heard that you're supposed to let a fresh stringjob settle for 24 hours before playing to keep the tension loss from dropping as significantly. However, I have a tournament tomorrow at 1:30pm, and my stringer will probably string my racquet at around 8pm. However, the most I can let it settle is around 18 hours. is this enough?

 

[ODYSSEY Mk.4]

i herd it was critical for poly thats all i really know as far as that 18 hours is 3/4 24 id say theres a 75% chance youll be ok.

 

[Stan]

Actually for most strings 22 hours and 36 minutes is enough time for the them to settle in. Anything less and you might have some problems with an issue known in the business as "elasticity creep."

 

[tennisfreak15347]

the string I have is tecnifibre Multifeel; a multi.

 

[tennisfreak15347]

Actually for most strings 22 hours and 36 minutes is enough time for the them to settle in. Anything less and you might have some problems with an issue known in the business as "elasticity creep."

what is "elasticity creep?"

 

[Vamz]

I hope that was sarcasm. But it's really hard to tell with text.

 

[tennisfreak15347]

I hope that was sarcasm. But it's really hard to tell with text.

the "36 minutes" gave some sarcasm, but you can't really tell without emotion smilies. moreover, you cant really tell if it's text...

*Edit* anyways, it wouldnt hurt asking .

 

[volusiano]

I would like to see somebody explain this theory to me to see if it makes any sense. I've used 3 different types of polys (SPPP, Cyberflash and WeissCannon) and I've never seen any of those manufacturers say anthing about waiting 24 hours before play to help minimize tension loss. You would think if it would help, they would mention it, like how they mention about stringing 5-10% lower on polys.

The only thing I heard, and observed myself, is that you should expect some initial tension loss after a fresh string job, even before play. But I don't think there's anything magical about the first 24 hour period.

I've been charting my string tension loss with an ERT300 on several poly string jobs and it looks like the tension drop continues up to 10 hours of actual play before it stabilizes into a flat line. And the total drop is around 5-10% of the initial tension measure right after a string job.

 

[tennisfreak15347]

^^^^ are you saying that after the initial tension drop of around 10%, there is only another 10% drop due to play?

*Edit* because I'm sure that every hit you do causes the strings to stretch, which results in tension loss.

 

[tennisfreak15347]

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[Bud]

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=216790

 

[volusiano]

^^^^ are you saying that after the initial tension drop of around 10%, there is only another 10% drop due to play?

*Edit* because I'm sure that every hit you do causes the strings to stretch, which results in tension loss.

No, I'm saying that after the initial tension loss of about 5-10%, which occurs between 0-to about 10 hours of play, the tension will then stabilize (no more loss) between 10 to 30 hours of play before you see more tension loss. This is a positive characteristic of polys, good tension stability during the life of the string.

The initial 5-10% tension loss happens to anything type of string. But for polys, after this initial loss, they don't lose tension anymore (or very little) until they go dead. But for other types of string, maybe they keep on losing tension until they go dead.

 

[vsgut]

BS

Just go play! Its all personal preference. Some pros want their racquets strung 4 hours before their match. Some want their racquets done 1 hour before their match. I would think 99.99 percent of the folks on this board would be better off working on their conditioning and technique than worrying about their strings being off 1/10 of a pound.

 

[uk_skippy]

Just go play! Its all personal preference. Some pros want their racquets strung 4 hours before their match. Some want their racquets done 1 hour before their match. I would think 99.99 percent of the folks on this board would be better off working on their conditioning and technique than worrying about their strings being off 1/10 of a pound.

I agree

Strangely enough, I used to like my rqts as fresh as poss. So I'd string my rqts with PSG and go and play. Now I've moved on to polys either in full or hybrid I prefer to leave them about 24hrs before using them.

Either way it is personal preference.

Regards

Paul

 

[Matty G]

I agree

Strangely enough, I used to like my rqts as fresh as poss. So I'd string my rqts with PSG and go and play. Now I've moved on to polys either in full or hybrid I prefer to leave them about 24hrs before using them.

Either way it is personal preference.

Regards

Paul

Uk skippy where are all the pics you said you took at wimbly?