Restring Your Tennis Racquets More Frequently

Why you should restring tennis racquets more frequently.

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[Alexander-dteq]

never had even the slightest signs of a tennis elbow, but have been playing more than 30y. I see many recreational players hit with a tense arm, shoulder and so on on all their strokes, while its only necessary to keep your arm tight when hitting the ball. I think this is the main reason people get long-term problems of any kind. For the strings I can recommend multifilament strings for the feel, or hybrid if you need more spin. These strings will usually pop after 3-4 months for recreational players or even earlier.

[dwightlewis]

I recently suffered with tennis elbow and did some research accordingly to understand what was happening. Result: I was misled by some sloppy instructional videos on the proper bio-mechanical way to hit one-handed backhands. Lesson learned: use more preparatory shoulder back-rotation with locked-wrist hammer grip and straightening the arm at impact, doing only shoulder rotation mechanics helped by doing back-of-shoulder strengthening exercises. All this minimizes wrist extension.

[RobManser]

The other significant reason is so that you can learn to play better. If the response of your racket is degrading the whole time and then you suddenly change it all with a re-string, it makes it really hard to learn to judge shots properly (which is what we're all trying to do, isn't it? To place a serve within a few centimetres of the T, or a down the line shot in double in the middle of the tramline, or a rally ball within 15cm of the baseline) the best you can do is learn to judge shots within the accuracy bounds of a new restring and an old restring, which is not within most people's aspirations. I get mine done every 20-30 hours of play. If I could afford it, I'd do them more often than that.

[PaulBroni]

Good advice. What I'd enjoy seeing from you is a play-test review of brand-name strings vs. those sold by, say, Klipper, which claim to be the same strings from ultimately the same manufacturer. (True?) For example, Babolat RPM Blast vs. Klipper Spin Max (both 17 ga.), which Klipper says is the same thing but at much lower cost.

[paddlepower]

Awww, man. I'd have loved to see this video start with sirens, flashing red lights and an ambulance racing down a street!
It may be all psychological, but I do enjoy and play better with new strings every 10-20 hours of play. I just put Super Smash Orange on the mains (52#) and Gosen synthetic gut on the crosses. Nice feeling strings. Thank you!

[carltonedwards]

I tried all solutions for tennis elbow such as ultrasound, deep tissue massage, steroid injections, heat, ice packs, arm bands for 6 months with no relief. As a final option I tried acupuncture for 3 sessions and have not suffered since.

[sandys]

Thank you! Does this apply regardless of how often you play on a weekly basis? What about tennis shoes? How often should tennis shoes be replaced? Thanks!!

[mohongzhi]

Every 3 month is quite perfect for those non-breakers. And I can add like no more than 30 hours of play. That's already max period of time. I restring mine racket so I do just use no more than 4 hours of play or keep string on no more than 2 weeks

[ashishbakre]

What about Multifilament? Do you restring them 4 times a year too. 🤔

[keith]

i use nylon multifilament strings and my strings are good for about 2 months until they fray too bad

[alastairtheduke]

Yep, copolys stretch and snap back as they're hit with. Eventually, on a microscopic level, they don't snap back anymore and they just keep stretching, like putty, but they never break.

[awaedin]

Thanks, very interesting as usual. When you say the strings become 'dead' what does that mean, eg in terms of hitting the ball? Does it mean you have to hit the ball harder to get the same amount of ball speed?

[kumarcal]

How do you think that Hsieh Su-We gets away with only restringing every few years? Think it affects her game much?

[chrisalm]

From what I have seen these co-polymer strings actually lose a significant amount of tension very early on, like within days. By two weeks out the tension has fallen off a cliff. If you're a junior playing every day for an hour or so 5 days a week what do you suggest. I'm currently re-stringing my daughters racquet every 10 days, 14 days max.

[YeShihSeY]

It seems I should buy a string machine and string myself.

[carlanthonyargamosa]

I have an idea, before the string breaks, i will let my string breaker friend to borrow the racquet 😅

[theeman]

Why have you used your head hawk strings for a year but recommend changing 4 times a year? Is it because it’s your teaching racquet and you’re not hitting hard?