Racket comes with no strings?

1. yes
2. dont know

 

it depends
unlikely to find anything for sale unstrung in the UK
specialist shops may offer a free restring when you buy a racquet though

 

OK. What are good rackets, what are no-good rackets? Very subjective. All rackets can come strung or unstrung, no rules or laws saying that good rackets come unstrung and that bad ones (cheap ones) come strung.

You can say normally one sees more expensive rackets come unstrung, I guess for these reasons

1. Target customers are of more advanced level, so they prefer to have the rackets strung with their favourite string and to their specified tension.
2. A way for the retailer to earn extra money on string (unless they string it for free)

Cheap rackets usually come strung because they are for more leisure players. Leisure players want to pick up a racket from the shop and go straight to the court rather than waiting for a day or two. And cheap rackets usually come with cheaper string (having said that, cheap strings aren't necessarily bad though).

Again, no rule says racket strung from the factory are better. The technique come from the stringer. A racket is designed to be re-strung for numerous times, providing it is strung with high standard, it will not deform or break easily.

 

oh, sorry about that. i'm too used to seeing the higher end models coming unstrung both in Taiwan and here in Canada

 

You seem to assume that stringing done 'in the factory' is better that that done anywhere else. I suggest to you that that is not necessary true. Alot of stringing of the rackets from the factory are subcontracted to others that probably care less about sudden forces on the frame than making a fast buck.

 

it seems all the carlton and wilson ones come with strings though... i only see the higher end yonex ones come without strings

 

i've seen a Hi-Qua AT700 clone with strings, and a Hi-Qua AT800OF clone with no strings.

personally i kind of hate factory strings. they dont have the feel of other strings, like BG 65. especially those transparent strings that some factories use on their rackets.. it looks like plastic cord, and it's usually way too loose to do anything

i've heard some complaints about the durability of Carlton factory strings though... and i didn't like the transparent Wilson strings on my friend's racket.

 

my friend's strings on her Carlton Powerflo TT900 broke the 2nd day she got the racquet.... wanst her fault though... some guy hit the birdie wrong trying to hit a clear...

 

not sure about why wilsons come with strings all the time, but carlton racquets originate from the UK, and all racquets from the UK are pre-strung!

 

all mine say "Made in China"

 

yep! but they all end up back in the UK before redistribution i beleive.
all this useless shipping is one of the things that factors into our inflated prices, right?

 

hi ceng
I see your point. Racket frames nowadays are designed and made to very high standard by decent manufacturers (decent means famous brands own factories or well-known OEM appointed by famous brands, not backyard factories that make those fake YYs), and are all QCed before they leave factories. Racket technology is not something new, and is mostly copied from YY. So IMHO, the need of stringing the racket before it leaves the factory as a means to either testing it, or pre-applying force to the frame before it can be strung to higher tension subsequently, is pretty insignificant. A frame breaks at stringing is not because the frame was not strung at factory, so it can't withstand higher force subsequently. Frame breaks at stringing because of bad stringer technique, no matter what tension you apply to the frame.

winston