From this thread [h=3]http://www.badmintonforum.com/vb/showthread.php/132435-Professionals-and-their-strings/page2[/h]
What string is LCW using? BG66 Sharp? Sounds kinda cool, wonder whats the gauge... 0.66/0.65? K.Tago is off the chart XD Lol and the FB is "classified"...
BG66S gauge is 0.68mm, classified as medium feeling and for hitting sound. Closest in the range but soft feeling is BG68Ti. 0.68 but hard feeling would be BG80/BG80P... They forgot about ahsan's string and tension. Tago withdrew from last year championships due to injury, and is the same for this year (2014) as well.
Does anyone know what string (and tension) Carolina Marin is using? Judging by the gold colour of her stringbed it looks like it she is using either Nbg 95 or 98.
One of the YY stringers told us Tago has 35/38. Going by the sound, I can certainly believe it - he has the sweetest sounding rackets... and breaks the most strings.
Hendra Setiawan - NR900 BG65 30lbs Mohammad Ahsan - NR900 BG65 30 or 31lbs Thanks for the picture from one of the stringer at China Open Premier 2014.
We would charge non Yonex racket's when stringing at Yonex sponsored tournaments. All Englands, US Open, world championships.
Why do they still have +2 lbs on the tension? Don't the pros get the best stringers and high end stringing machine that makes it unnecessary?
Depends, but even stringers and machines cant ignore physics - if you go even without a prestrech function, the additional friction on the cross strings will make them softer than the mains, resulting in a possibly rounded head. Also, added tension on the crosses makes it feel different, which some may prefer...
I thought is was for compensating the extra tension on the mains. Example: You string your mains @28Lbs the are straight.. and should be @28lbs. when you start the crosses @30lbs al the crosses are @30 lbs. But the mains are affected to, they are not straight anymore because they are goingup and down from the weaving of the cross.
Personally I dont think its as important a factor as the friction. When you set your machine to pull at a certain tension, that will be the force it generates in the direction of the tension head's axis of movement, at the point where it holds the string. If the string is not in line with that axis, the resulting pull is already weaker. Every grommet and main string it passes is an additional source of friction, further reducing the tension. If you set your cross tension to the same value as your mains, depending on the machine it can generate a very different result, with fast motors and high-quality machines achieving the least distorted head. However, the head will be subjected to unequal tensions and the main strings will be tighter than the crosses. The way I counter that is using the pre-strech and a very small increase in tension (0.2-0.4kg) on the crosses, so that the resulting tension is as similar to the mains as possible, or just a bit higher (takes stress of the mains, which are much more likely to break). PS: I hope the long post is readable, its pretty hard to structure it on your phone :/
i was curious, any updates on this topic after the all england tournament? I was wondering, Jan Ø Jørgensen from Denmark, he seems to have upped his tension a bit after the switch to yonex, any comments on that?
