Tennis Warehouse Blog

…with polyester, that is. Before I became a playtester for Tennis Warehouse 4 years ago, I played exclusively with an inexpensive synthetic gut. I usually went with something like Prince Synthetic Gut or Gamma Synthetic Gut, though it really didn’t matter. I’d spend about $20 to have my racquet strung, then be back in a [...]

I love the control and spin I get from co-polyester strings. I also love the comfort and feel I get from natural gut. The new V-Fuse hybrid from Volkl aims to bring both to the court in one stringbed by combining Volkl’s Cyclone monofilament and V-Icon natural gut. I tried this hybrid both ways by [...]

It had been a while since I’d regularly used natural gut, but I recently started to play around with some hybrids and full sets of gut after a nagging wrist injury just refused to go away. So, when some sets of Becker Hero natural gut came into the office for testing, I quickly grabbed a [...]