Your greatest WORST string of all time is...
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Ronaldo
Bionic Poster
Extremely playable in the warm-up.
flashfire276
Hall of Fame
That reminds me, the LM Rad came with a factory string job (don't know the name) that was just unbelievable awful and harsh and like hitting with cage wire!
R
Yes! Head Synthetic Gut 16g I believe. What kind of synthetic lacks pop as much as that??
rodrigoamaral
Hall of Fame
wilson ultra syn gut is worse..
ron schaap
Hall of Fame
The only thing that is ultra extra crap is reviews like yours.
Totally uninformative 
mpournaras
Hall of Fame
nice corpse thread. Anything Gamma makes at each and every price-point. TNT in particular
insiderman
Semi-Pro
"Tie" (for me at least..) would be... Prince "Stop Light" and Wilson "SweetSpot"... both with good "philosophies" yet neither did a damn in actuality of performance...
shaysrebelII
Professional
A few come to mind.
When I first read the thread title I took it as, “Worst string according to everyone else that you actually like.” For me, that’s Golden Set Snake Bite, which has a bad reputation, but I use with pretty good results.
It seems like most of y’all are treating it as, “What’s the worst string you’ve ever used, full stop.” For me that’s a tricky two-way tie between Isospeed Baseline (is this even poly?) and Blue Rock N Power, which is somehow too powerful and too low-powered at the same time, plus is the only poly I’ve played in the last two years that made my shoulder hurt.
When I first read the thread title I took it as, “Worst string according to everyone else that you actually like.” For me, that’s Golden Set Snake Bite, which has a bad reputation, but I use with pretty good results.
It seems like most of y’all are treating it as, “What’s the worst string you’ve ever used, full stop.” For me that’s a tricky two-way tie between Isospeed Baseline (is this even poly?) and Blue Rock N Power, which is somehow too powerful and too low-powered at the same time, plus is the only poly I’ve played in the last two years that made my shoulder hurt.
El_Yotamo
Hall of Fame
For me it's probably Solinco Revolution. Could never play when it was in, everything was inconsistent, no feel whatsoever, and no control while getting a very low amount of power. That's puzzling because I tend to love stiffer strings but Revolution is just weird in a way that for me makes it unplayable.
Moveforwardalways
Hall of Fame
4G easily the worst
Solinco tour bite 18 gauge is second worst
Solinco tour bite 18 gauge is second worst
Pmasterfunk
Hall of Fame
Klipper Pearl Zone (supposedly like Wilson Sensation). I must have strung it wrong, because it felt super stiff with a loud pinging noise. Got zero enjoyment out of it.
Ronaldo
Bionic Poster
Recall it also broke in the 1st hr. Quickie
lucieisland
Semi-Pro
at the risk of shocking a lot of people, my worst will have been: luxilon alu original. owhen just stringing, you have to wait at least 30 to 45 minutes for it to be really good .. and there, it's probably the best string ever , then, after 1:30 of play it starts to become uncontrollable, and 30mn more late, it's dead. so, more than 15 € for 1h30 of tennis, it is unthinkable. there are so many string that cost 3 times less, play a little less well, but also last 3 times longer, than ... BBO can not be a good string. (unless it's free)
Babolat Pro hurricane tour 18g, the stiffest harshest string I have come across...normally never cut out a string until it is unusable but had to cut this out after just a couple outings cuz saving a few bucks over arm pain is never worth it
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Pmasterfunk
Hall of Fame
Is it actually the same as Sensation? Isn't it supposed to be soft? I don't actually remember playing with it for very long, so I don't remember how it fared durability-wise. It was also pretty expensive, especially compared to regular syngut, which I actually don't mind.
fuzz nation
G.O.A.T.
I was going to give a nod to this stuff, too.
When my first set blew out in a hurry, I assumed that I had make some sort of mistake when I installed it in one of my frames. Then the next try crapped out just as quickly and one of my pals who sampled it popped his E-Matrix in only about a 1/2 hour. WOW!!
mmk
Hall of Fame
Agreed, cut it out after just a practice hit.
1HBHfanatic
Legend
I never liked solinco strings since a bad.feel from orig. tour.bite
hyp.g is getting good feedback, so your tensions and racquet combo is prov. not correct "for you", yet,,,,
once we have a bad feel experience with a string, we tend to hesitate to try again,,
i had this happen to me with lux.4g, same scenario.. i tried it again latter and now like (the lux.4g at lower tensions, not my favorite by a long shot, but I figure it out)..
StringGuruMRT
Semi-Pro
I was just thinking of "sweetspot" the other day when I had to string a racquet 50/50! And I had completely forgotten about Prince Stoplight!
For me the worst string I ever used was Forten 15g Nylon. We had reels of this stuff in college, and we all stung it up with Ashaway Kevlar in the mains... I like to refer to those as the dark days of my set ups! Hard to imagine now, but I was plowing through that stuff one racquet a match. The 14x18 pattern on my Graphite II's probably had something to do with that!
Ronaldo
Bionic Poster
ROPEI was just thinking of "sweetspot" the other day when I had to string a racquet 50/50! And I had completely forgotten about Prince Stoplight!
For me the worst string I ever used was Forten 15g Nylon. We had reels of this stuff in college, and we all stung it up with Ashaway Kevlar in the mains... I like to refer to those as the dark days of my set ups! Hard to imagine now, but I was plowing through that stuff one racquet a match. The 14x18 pattern on my Graphite II's probably had something to do with that!
Steve Huff
G.O.A.T.
VS Africord (a red natural gut) and/or Victor Imperial (a cream color with blue spiral stripes)
Kalethan
Rookie
Babolat Origin. I played this fresh, broken in, and in multiple racquets that I otherwise love, demos from a local shop. I tried it full bed and as a hybrid. It always felt like I was trying to hit boiled cabbage through a tuna net soaked in lard, but less sense of connection
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Ronaldo
Bionic Poster
BITD the only NG available locally.
tennisjunky
Rookie
Best - Forten Aramid Gear - FABULOUS bit on the ball for unbelievable kick on serve!!!
Worst - Forten Aramid Gear - ABSOLUTLY zero feel and tennis elbow best friend!!!
HA HA
Worst - Forten Aramid Gear - ABSOLUTLY zero feel and tennis elbow best friend!!!
HA HA
SteveI
Legend
For sure... most over rated string on the market...
Muppet
Legend
Lux M2 Pro. Totally anti-climatic. Great because of the price. The first day it was my favorite string ever. But during the second day the tension softened and lost all playability. It was especially heart-breaking because it played so well and seemed worth the price on the first day.
