re: The Championships, Wimbledon 2013 Official Thread

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Surface Tension How big a role has court technology played in tennis's current golden age?

I'm too impatient right now to read all of that, but I wish he touched on string technology.

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I'll help you out. Look at this article that discusses a racquet strining experiment done back in the 1970's called "Spaghetti Strings".

Spaghetti Strung Racquets

Now you're gonna look at that spaghetti strung racquet and think it's the silliest thing you've ever seen. Now way somebody could play with that.

But what poly strings do is they implement the physics of the spaghetti strung racquet, but in a less exagerrated way.

The idea is that poly strings let the strings slide past each and then slide back into place. So the strings act as a bit of a catapult and the ball is able to launched off them with more spin.







Do the physica behind poly strings help Rafa more because of his whiplike forehand? Well maybe, except that Federer hits with more spin than Nadal..

Facts. Data. Debunking. Myths. Who. Want. What?