The United States
Racquet Stringers Association

Ask the Experts

Questions from members about equipment and stringing, with answers from our panel of experts. USRSA members can also search our database of 'Ask the Expert' items.

• 360-degree rotation (35895 bytes)
• 50-50 stringing (36300 bytes)
• Air travel for tennis balls (36118 bytes)
• Aramid stringing with a dropweight machine (36114 bytes)
• Babolat Pure Control MP two-piece stringing (36230 bytes)
• Babolat Pure Drive two-piece stringing (35925 bytes)
• Babolat Sensor (36060 bytes)
• Babolat Star 2 and Star 3 calibration (35999 bytes)
• Babolat Star 3 mounting (36014 bytes)
• Babolat Star 4 calibration (36020 bytes)
• Broken racquet (36257 bytes)
• Buying at discount (36143 bytes)
• Calibration procedure (35963 bytes)
• Changing the COP (36142 bytes)
• Changing Volkl pallets (36049 bytes)
• Clamp slippage (36568 bytes)
• Cleaning leather grips (35804 bytes)
• Cleaning textured clamp faces (36198 bytes)
• Constant pull tension vs. lockout tension (36211 bytes)
• Damage from playing with a freshly strung racquet (36144 bytes)
• Defining swingweight (35905 bytes)
• Differential string tensions (35988 bytes)
• Differential tensions (35852 bytes)
• Digest listings (36217 bytes)
• Digital Electronic Calibrator (35906 bytes)
• Discontinued grommet strips (36160 bytes)
• Double pulling (36382 bytes)
• E-Force Torrent short side (36253 bytes)
• Easier stenciling (36333 bytes)
• Ektelon Attitude tension (36111 bytes)
• Ektelon clamp length (36023 bytes)
• Extending string shelf life (36007 bytes)
• Fear of flying (36027 bytes)
• Firmer-feeling replacement grip (35882 bytes)
• First moment (36036 bytes)
• First-time customizer (35990 bytes)
• Fishing line for tennis (36106 bytes)
• Foreign products (36051 bytes)
• Frame deformation from poly hybrids (36110 bytes)
• Frame distortion (36224 bytes)
• Frame distortion during stringing (35978 bytes)
• Frame slippage (36123 bytes)
• Getting started with customizing (35972 bytes)
• Getting the lead in (36207 bytes)
• Gut alternatives (36049 bytes)
• Hard courts vs. soft courts (36825 bytes)
• Hard weave (36065 bytes)
• Head Ti.S7 mounting on the Gamma 6002 (36252 bytes)
• Heat-damaged racquets (36056 bytes)
• High-altitude tennis (35922 bytes)
• Humidity and nylon strings (35965 bytes)
• Increasing mains tension on oversize racquets (35994 bytes)
• Interrupted stringing (36112 bytes)
• Keeping stencil ink on the strings (36026 bytes)
• Kevlar tension (36074 bytes)
• Knot placement (35922 bytes)
• Lockout calibration woes (36226 bytes)
• Long racquet source (35898 bytes)
• Longer grips for two-handed backhands (35931 bytes)
• Machine pre-stretching (36266 bytes)
• Matched racquets (36118 bytes)
• Matching older frames (36123 bytes)
• Measuring swingweight (35880 bytes)
• Momentum vs. acceleration (35949 bytes)
• Mounting lead tape (36115 bytes)
• Mounting Yonex frames on Ektelon/Prince machines (36138 bytes)
• Nate Ferguson's stringing speed (35992 bytes)
• Natural gut twist (36038 bytes)
• New racquet stringing instructions (36035 bytes)
• One-piece vs. two-piece (35871 bytes)
• One-piece vs. two-piece stringing (36025 bytes)
• Partial string jobs (36090 bytes)
• Piecing in stringbed patching (35884 bytes)
• Points vs. centimeters of balance (35892 bytes)
• Power pads (36017 bytes)
• Pre-stretching natural gut (36001 bytes)
• Prince AirLaunch (35914 bytes)
• Prince O3 stringing (36051 bytes)
• Pro racquets (36010 bytes)
• Proportional stringing (35969 bytes)
• Published racquet measurements (35855 bytes)
• Racquet matching (36183 bytes)
• Racquet matching (36411 bytes)
• Racquet matching (36000 bytes)
• Racquet matching (35986 bytes)
• Racquet mounting (36355 bytes)
• Racquet power (35865 bytes)
• Racquet power formula (36803 bytes)
• Racquet Research (35940 bytes)
• Racquet specifications (37051 bytes)
• Racquet torque (35957 bytes)
• Racquetball string breakage (36197 bytes)
• RacquetTECH.com website links (35876 bytes)
• Reducing grip size (35890 bytes)
• Reducing stringing time (36022 bytes)
• Reducing tennis racquet grip size (35854 bytes)
• Removing stencil ink (35945 bytes)
• Restringing abused racquets (36076 bytes)
• Safe tension range (36162 bytes)
• Securing bumperguard ends (36043 bytes)
• Setting clamping force (36375 bytes)
• Sketchy search results (35906 bytes)
• Soft weave (35885 bytes)
• Source for old racquets (35986 bytes)
• Sources for products (36401 bytes)
• Specifications for older racquets (35974 bytes)
• Squash tension listings (35999 bytes)
• Starting clamp (35798 bytes)
• Starting knot slippage (36099 bytes)
• Stenciling and string performance (35855 bytes)
• String breakage on grommetless racquets (36389 bytes)
• String breakage patterns (35934 bytes)
• String gauge differences (35951 bytes)
• String length recommendations (36354 bytes)
• String lubricant (36043 bytes)
• String movement (35826 bytes)
• String savers (35908 bytes)
• String shelf life (35964 bytes)
• String-bed density (36022 bytes)
• Stringing a wooden racquet (36288 bytes)
• Stringing the Ektelon DPR (36175 bytes)
• Stringing unusual racquets (36590 bytes)
• Stringmeter readings (37280 bytes)
• Sweaty hands while playing (35878 bytes)
• Swingweight (36075 bytes)
• Swingweight differences (36236 bytes)
• Swingweight sensitivity (35858 bytes)
• Tecnifibre mounting (36060 bytes)
• Tennis ball shelf life (35912 bytes)
• Tennis elbow (37887 bytes)
• Tennis racquet grip size (35886 bytes)
• Tennis strings vs. racquetball strings (35870 bytes)
• Tension adjustment for different gauge string (35915 bytes)
• Tension adjustments (35847 bytes)
• Tension changes for poly strings (36114 bytes)
• Tension head slippage with thin strings (36015 bytes)
• Tension jaw marks on strings (35939 bytes)
• Tension limit for 17-gauge string (35843 bytes)
• Tension loss on Wilson Rollers racquets (36127 bytes)
• Tie-off holes for two-piece stringing (35946 bytes)
• Tour Stringing (36277 bytes)
• Trap doors on butt caps (35970 bytes)
• Troublesome two-piece stringing (36837 bytes)
• Two-piece stringing (35911 bytes)
• Two-piece stringing (35891 bytes)
• Understanding the String Selector Map (36028 bytes)
• Using a pathfinder awl (35974 bytes)
• Using Racquet Selector (36129 bytes)
• Using The Morphinator (36206 bytes)
• Using USRSA logos (35887 bytes)
• USRSA / RacquetTECH.com specifications (36105 bytes)
• USRSA racquet measurements (35814 bytes)
• Vibration dampeners (36164 bytes)
• Weight of plastic grip wrap (36138 bytes)
• Which tension to use? (36346 bytes)
• Wilson Sledge Hammer 3.4 Stretch Outer Limits string length (35986 bytes)
• Yonex tension ranges (35855 bytes)