Beauty and the Beast XP

It is said that the eyes are the portals to the soul… When you stare into the eye of the Beast XP, what do you see? Let’s look into what’s behind these eyes….or in this case, “eye”. Several months ago, there was some information floating around about a new green polyester string. Known at the [...]

String Review: Polyfibre TCS 16

After hearing rave reviews about it, I gave the Polyfibre TCS 16 gauge a try. It comes very highly praised from a number of TW playtesters as well as a number of ATP and WTA players. Advertised as being one of the softest and best feeling co-polys around, I looked forward to playing with it. [...]

String Review: Isospeed Professional 17

Isospeed’s Professional 17 gauge string is advertised to be the closest match to natural gut on the market for synthetic gut string.  Along with Isospeed’s reputation among my peers as an excellent string manufacturer, I figured the Professional 17 would definitely be worth a try. The Isospeed Power Ribbon technology is specifically designed to mimick [...]

String review: Topspin Cyberflash 1.25mm

Let me start off by saying that after this string test I believe the Topspin Cyberflash string is an excellent polyester string at a great value. It is a co-polyester monofilament, similar to a Luxilon Big Banger ALU Power or Signum Pro Poly-Plasma, which is designed to enhance the already durable polyester string with added [...]