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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

In the mood for something a little different than I would normally play with, I tried a set of the Isospeed Energetic 17 gauge string.  Word has spread that Isospeed makes a great-playing string, and the Energetic did not disappoint.  With similar appearance to an aramid string, the Energetic differs by offering a very comfortable [...]

A pleasant surprise awaited me when I was handed a set of the Prince Poly EXP 16 to try. I knew little about the Prince Poly EXP 16 string before I tried it. I have enjoyed the Prince strings I had used in the past (I enjoyed playing with the Prince Syn Gut w/ Duraflex [...]

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 [...]

If you like to hit with a lot of spin, this is a good time to be a tennis player. Today’s racquets are so fast, and today’s strings offer so much grip, at times the amount of spin that can be generated just seems wrong (but so much fun). Of course, as players we still [...]