After reading this forum for around 6 months I have finally registered and this will be my first post.
So lets get down to business, im a 24 year old guy playing 4.0 level tennis in the UK. I have only been playing 6 months and play most of my tennis indoors on carpet for around 8-10 hours per week. I am very athletic and hit the ball hard with allot of top spin and have a long swing.
My skills on the court are increasing week by week at the moment. I have regular lessons with a respected coach and feel that if I keep up the rate of improvement I can start playing in tournaments come the summer.
The problem is that I have been struggling with strings. I currently play with 2 Head Speed Pro rackets and am now re-stringing them for the 5th time and no longer know what to try. This is how things have gone so far;-
String 1: A Babolat multi @55 came in the rackets when purchased. Played ok but started to degrade quickly and the strings where very warn after 3 weeks.
String 2: Babolat Syth gut cross Tecnifibre Red Code Polly mains @55. Played nice and seemed to hold tension. This set up lasted a while until the Syth Gut broke, so got another restring in this. But after around 3 months (4 restrings) of playing this I developed a mild case of golfers elbow which i put down to the Polly in the mains.
String 4: Head natural gut mains @55 Alu Rough crosses @50. I was advised that natural gut would be a bit more arm friendly but expensive (hence the hybrid) and sure enough it played very nicely but only got around '4 HOURS' out of each racket before I have breaking them. And at £25 a restring having 2-3 a week is rather expensive.
So am looking for advice on a relatively durable (not expecting miracles) main string that isn't a Polly that i can use with the Alu rough cross. As can be seen from the above i have very little experience with strings and the stringer i use isn't the best when it comes to product knowledge so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Matthew
So lets get down to business, im a 24 year old guy playing 4.0 level tennis in the UK. I have only been playing 6 months and play most of my tennis indoors on carpet for around 8-10 hours per week. I am very athletic and hit the ball hard with allot of top spin and have a long swing.
My skills on the court are increasing week by week at the moment. I have regular lessons with a respected coach and feel that if I keep up the rate of improvement I can start playing in tournaments come the summer.
The problem is that I have been struggling with strings. I currently play with 2 Head Speed Pro rackets and am now re-stringing them for the 5th time and no longer know what to try. This is how things have gone so far;-
String 1: A Babolat multi @55 came in the rackets when purchased. Played ok but started to degrade quickly and the strings where very warn after 3 weeks.
String 2: Babolat Syth gut cross Tecnifibre Red Code Polly mains @55. Played nice and seemed to hold tension. This set up lasted a while until the Syth Gut broke, so got another restring in this. But after around 3 months (4 restrings) of playing this I developed a mild case of golfers elbow which i put down to the Polly in the mains.
String 4: Head natural gut mains @55 Alu Rough crosses @50. I was advised that natural gut would be a bit more arm friendly but expensive (hence the hybrid) and sure enough it played very nicely but only got around '4 HOURS' out of each racket before I have breaking them. And at £25 a restring having 2-3 a week is rather expensive.
So am looking for advice on a relatively durable (not expecting miracles) main string that isn't a Polly that i can use with the Alu rough cross. As can be seen from the above i have very little experience with strings and the stringer i use isn't the best when it comes to product knowledge so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Matthew