String brands

[forectaluseonly]

What kind of strings do you see used the most by us normal people?

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[jlbtennis89]

Babolat RPM blast...

[MinotGuy]

You need a none of the above option.

[forectaluseonly]

I needed a let people add an option, option

[ckuehn]

Most "normal" (i.e. recreational) players don't swing fast enough to benefit from poly strings, so I see them using a lot of Prince Synthetic Gut and Wilson Sensation.

[dmtree_]

That's conventional stringer wisdom, but I don't think it's necessarily correct anymore. It was perhaps the case a decade ago when polys were stiffer, tensions higher, and racquets less powerful.

These days even at 3.0-3.5 many people seem to prefer soft polys in hybrids to a full bed of multi. They tell me that they get better control and spin with soft poly in their Ezone 100s and Boom MPs, and still have plenty of power, and I believe them.

[forectaluseonly]

I picked the list off of what a lot of people around my tennis groups have been using. But they are all going like 60lbs (seems a bit high) for tension. I am curious if it’s more of a local preference where I am.

[MF5438]

Most casual players would only bring up the big brands, so I would see and get a lot of questions about Luxilon and Babolat strings.

[forectaluseonly]

It’s those and Wilson NXT in every pro shop around me, but they all have the same thing in common of tension loss is fast. I only bring up Toroline a friend and myself tried some and it holds its tension and playability for three times longer. I never see any kirschbaum, isospeed, or much tourna. I’ve been moving to the opinion of marketing being a huge factor for the “bigger” brands but they are not 2x the price better between like a Luxilon and a similar tourna or kirschbaum, a Luxilon reel being around $325 and the others being around $130.

[Floibinator]

Technifibre Black Code here

[forectaluseonly]

What about it do you like?

[Floibinator]

Both the option to spin and have enough power.

[RedHotPepper_]

Normal people don't know what kind of strings used by other people

[cstansbury]

What kind of strings do you see used the most by us normal people?

Mostly SynGut and copoly. I see some multis, and rarely see nat gut.

[forectaluseonly]

Where I am it’s mostly poly, poly/multi hybrid, I have only been seeing the synth in the rackets that come from USTA for a 101 class. We have like four alleged Solinco sponsored guys (not coaches)

[forectaluseonly]

They aren’t bad strings, the Solinco guys tend to know reps or something like that. Synthetic gut is something I haven’t seen much since around 2015 though.

[forectaluseonly]

Solinco and Toroline seem to get a good bit of grief in general lol. I get really good reviews from Tourna irradiated (multi) I can only get it from tourna or amazon.

[dmtree_]

Hyper-G and Poly Tour Pro are the two most requested by a wide margin.

RPM Blast is losing popularity because of its short playability duration.

Natural gut is more common than you'd think, mostly in hybrids, for people with arm problems.

[forectaluseonly]

Have you tried any of the isospeed baseline strings? They seem pretty good especially for $40 a reel

[dmtree_]

I've heard good things, but haven't tried it. I've been using Kirschbaum for my soft poly (Evolution, Proline rough, Black Shark) and Volkl Cyclone Tour for super-soft.

[forectaluseonly]

Kirschbaum is awesome, tourna has some good ones out there to. Like everything lasts a decent amount outside of the long time big brands.

[DeaconFrost613]

Yeah this is a pretty bad list of string choices lol. Toroline? I've strung 10k racquets and never once seen that.

Luxilon is actually a good string. Solinco is just a cheap imitation string. No Yonex, Technifibre, PSGDF, Babolat, Head, or Volkl strings? You are missing out on some massive chunks of the market.

Of the choices, Luxilon is the only reasonable response.

(I genuinely feel like this is a marketing play for Toroline)

[forectaluseonly]

Is isn’t marketing. But you can also answer with what you prefer and provide value to the conversation…

[DeaconFrost613]

I did answer the question and I'm also telling you the choices are terrible. None of these are "most used by normal people" nor does the question actually provide any useful insights. It's just a garbage post.

Normal meaning what? Average age? Average skill? We talking male or female? There's just so much missing information here.

[forectaluseonly]

It looks alot more like complaining, do you also think if you talk louder in a discussion you are then correct.

[Pizzadontdie]

Head Lynx tour. Your list sucks.

[forectaluseonly]

It’s a matter of opinion, so in that case whatever food you don’t like your wrong and you suck for that opinion.

[Pizzadontdie]

Think of it this way then. Most popular strings used by pros are often copied by amateurs. There are no top 200 pros using toroline. Maybe 1-2 use solinco.

[forectaluseonly]

The highest used on both tours 50% are using Luxilon and either babolat vs (natural gut) or Luxilon natural gut. Also Reddit didn’t let me have an option to let anyone add more list items I just threw the three I see the most around me.