I use bg80. It also showed that racket longevity is dependent on stringer's ability as i have said before ---------
by countries The main strings used by country were: China BG 65 Ti and BG 65 Korea BG 80 Indonisia BG 66 Denmark BG 80 (Yellow) Netherlands BG 65 Hong Kong BG 65 Great Britain Own string and BG 65 Ti strung by tagsports
stringing frequency Tagsports restring data Data telling us that (3 players) nathan robertson, gail emms and Natalie Munt who uses 'own' strings break them ?? just as frequent as the entire KOR team using yonex string. (more like 2 players since only Nathan and Gail advanced to use the string long enough)
its' possible that another stringing team(s) strings for the chinese, nederland, etc players and tagsports collected only the 'frequency' data from them
Cooler thanks, but chart doesn't indicate number of players and number of matches events. Also previous data for racquets and stringing tension didn't indicate doubles or singles discipline of palyers, and didn't indicated that most using Yonex were Yonex contracted/sponsored players. Could you please indicate where I could access this data. Thanks. Regards Stuart P.S I use BG66, and string BG65 for customers (just switched to AT800 OF and DE)
stuart, those data are exact duplicate from tagsports, i did not add or substract any data. As i said, it is likely more than 1 vendor is stringing for the players, and i doubt that other vendor keep good records as tagsports. As for who play what (singles vs doubles) and how many matches, best if u get that that from the internet, ie athen olympic website, if they still have those data. Remember, this is way more than what we have known before.
From the title, I'd thought that cooler went over to Athens and interviewed the stringers when they were there or something. Then I saw the small print, tagsports . Nice info though.
Cooler, Thanks - I understand. From this, is the website?:http://www.tagsports.co.uk/olympics-data.htm Think the data is good and certainly more informative than in the past, but the question of how many matches played against breakages, would assist more to gauge wear on strings. Regards Stuart
I think you should ask the shop for any question you have, cooler is just trying to share the information with us.
Okay Bluejeff, I appriecate what Cooler has done, but just making a statement, like other people have in the past.
pros dont restring because of breakage, they restring because it doesnt feel new, or just because he/she is playing an important match. Most will restring after every match. This is the olympic, every edge one can get will be exploited, especially when it cost nothing. Sound like ur a stringer too. U should know that at 30+ lbs new, it wouldn't feel new even after 1 game by these elite players yes, i got the info from that link
Is "break them ??" a guess ? If GB players on average have more racquets strung per player than Koreans then it may well be that the GB players expect to have more breakages. Nathan running out of racquets in Denmark might support that (unless he just forgot to get all his racquets restrung after previous rounds)
i think i have corrected that statement in my other posts, that pros restring their rackets not only if strings broke but also when the string isnt feeling right or fresh. Something they restring them just for psychological reason, like changing shuttles.
LOL, thanks. getting late, grammatical errors start creeping in. i think i have corrected that statement in my other posts, that pros restring their rackets not only if strings are broken but also when the string isn't feeling right or fresh. Sometime they restring them just for psychological reason, like changing shuttles
interesting that Novita has a cab20, a Ti-10 and a MP99. Lee Dong Soo has a cab21 and a cab20 (just like me... )
Tagsports I've just visited the Tagsports web site and looked at their photos from the Olympics. Couldn't help but stare with longing at the pictures with the rackets waiting for collection (drool). Who pays the stringers, is it Yonex, as the sponsors of the event, or is it the Olympic organisers?
I doubt if Yonex is paying for all the string jobs as some players don't even use Yonex strings and Yonex rackets. It's most likely the stringer/shop send a total bill to the country team/players.
I took an longer look at the tagsports site, and found some booboos - 2 photos of INA team celebrating with bronze winner Soni Kuncoro but caption read celebrating with gold medal winner taufik. - Players are also changing their choice of strings. Prior to 2002, BG65 (0.70mm) was by far the most popular string, but the demand has now moved to thinner strings, especially BG80 and BG65 Ti (0.68mm) BG65ti is still 0.70mm unless he meant to say bg68ti - Factors that contributed to this years high activity levels are: Launch of the new Yonex Armortec 800 racquets Hmm, wouldnt the launch of AT 700, MP and Ti Mesh do that too from previous years but why just armortec 800 for 2004? -
