Helpful Guides

1) Wear and Tear: With frequent play, especially hard hitting and high tensions, your strings endure a lot of stress. This can lead to breakage, notching, thinning, tension loss, misalignment, loss of response and the deterioration of the coating and shape. Over time, this affects your racket's performance, impacting comfort, feel, power, control, and consistency, and could even lead to injuries.

2) Weather and Climate: Strings react to changes in temperature and moisture. For example, if left in a hot car, they lose tension faster and may break more easily. In extreme cold, they could break prematurely when played with. Strings are also more sensitive in wet or abrasive (dusty clay court) conditions, where they can fray and break quicker. Generally, strings play softer and more responsive in warm weather and stiffer in colder climates. Adjusting your string type or tension based on the weather helps keep you in top form.

3) Experimentation: Trying out different string setups can help you identify what works best for you. By experimenting with various options, you can fine-tune your gear to match your preferences and improve your overall performance.

4) Circumstances: As you strive to enhance your skills, it's essential to make adjustments based on your playing ability and the string durability needed. Additionally, if you're dealing with an injury or looking to prevent one, changing your string setup can help improve comfort and power, making your game more enjoyable and safer.

5) Time/Age of your string: Even without playing, strings degrade and lose tension over time, known as static tension loss.

6) Personalisation: Standard factory strings may not meet your specific needs. Customising your strings ensures they suit your playing style and preferences. Many new rackets are sold unstrung and will require stringing as well.

Pro Tip: Regularly checking and restringing your racket keeps you in the game, ensuring you enjoy every match with optimal performance!

Synthetic Strings

Originaliy developed to try and bring synthetic strings closer to the playability of natural gut. This makes it a great choice when you’re looking for a string with great overall playability, affordability and improved durability.

Nylon (Synthetic Gut / Multifilament)

Basic synthetic gut / multifilament strings are a solid choice for juniors and beginners or when looking for a softer alternative. These strings generally offer reduced shock and vibration which makes your string bed feel more forgiving and is arm friendly.

Co-poly (Monofilament)

As one of the most popular strings, a co-poly string is known for its spin and control. This makes co-poly strings an excellent option for hard hitters who tend to break strings easily and for those intermediate to advanced level players. (*Not recommended for some light weight rackets, aluminium rackets, young juniors, beginners or players that suffer from arm injuries.)

Aramid (Kevlar)

The most durable string available, Kevlar is a very stiff string which makes it the least comfortable strings. (*Not recommended for some light weight rackets, aluminium rackets, young juniors, beginners or players that suffer from arm injuries.)

Natural Gut

Looking for ultimate playability?…then natural gut remains the gold standard for power, comfort, feel and tension maintenance. For those highly competitive players who are working on all aspects of their game, then a natural gut string might be an excellent fit for you.

Ideally for indoor play.