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Gut life

Q: What is the life resiliency of a gut string? How often do pros restring their racquets when using gut? How often when using synthetics?

A: Natural gut does lose tension, as do all strings, but in many cases it remains playable to within hours of when it breaks. We’ve seen cases of racquets with ten-year-old natural gut in them that were still playable.

Just like recreational players, different pros restring on different schedules. It depends on the pro, but generally speaking, they don’t let their strings get more than a couple of days old before restringing, either because of age and performance issues, or because the old string has broken.

From the June 2007 issue
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