Often overlooked, a racquet’s string pattern can make a big difference in your game. During the press conference following his semifinal victory over Andy Roddick at the Sony Ericsson Open in ...

Once a blip on the racquet-spec radar, string pattern has become an increasingly important—and complicated—consideration. Here are a few things you should know about strings before your next ...

The MAD RAQ is also in the Wimbledon Museum and the International Tennis Hall of Fame. But that stringing pattern seemed to be too complicated for stringers.

Today, natural gut strings — the strands of sterilized cow entrails once used by most professionals — have all but disappeared from pro tennis. At this year’s French Open beginning May 24 ...

A thinner frame beam and smaller racket head size/closed string pattern (18x20) give more stability, feel and control to a player. An open string pattern (16x19) offers extra spin and power ...

The collision between ball and racket seems so violent, doesn't it? Yet players like Rafael Nadal can take ferocious cuts without sacrificing control because of one reason: the string.

This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s new guide to tennis It was the bored monks of medieval France who invented the sport that has become one of the most captivating of modern times. To ...

The Pure Strike 97 offers the thinnest beam and features a 16x20 string pattern for control and precision. The mainline 305-gram 98-square-inch versions come in either a standard 16x19 string ...

A University of Colorado Boulder alum created what he says is the world’s first-ever 100% synthetic, biodegradable tennis string through his Boulder-based company Velociti.

Babolat sold tennis string for more than a century before getting into rackets. It’s still the king of string: Babolat’s new RPM Blast strings are so hot that pros were begging for them at the ...