What strings do you need in your tennis racket to maximise your potential?

The stars lighting up the courts at Wimbledon need every facet of their game to be in perfect order for them to succeed and one of the most significant pieces of their armoury will be the strings in their racket.

Amateur players hoping to emulate their heroes may look to buy a racket that is used by one of the top players and they might even invest in getting their trainers or their kits to ensure they feel comfortable on court.

Yet getting the right strings in your racket can have a dramatic impact on your performance when you take to the court.

Here, Tennis365 got the inside story on how to pick the right strings to ensure you get the best value for your shots on court from the experts at Wilson Tennis.

How important are strings to ensuring you get the best performance possible on the court?

Strings play a pivotal role in a player’s performance at all levels of the game. They are in constant contact with the ball, therefore ensuring you have the most suitable strings for your game, the court surface, and temperature is vital to maximize your performance.

Tell about Wilson’s new Luxilon Eco Power strings.

The New Luxilon Eco string has been many years in the making – and we are truly excited to see it coming to life in the market. Luxilon are the leading brand on the ATP/WTA tour therefore they have the experience to bring the best product to tennis players around the world. Luxilon Eco Power is a durable heavy-duty string that provides enough feel and forgiveness, the hexagon shape gives grippy edges to offer more control and spin, balance between firmness and feedback with superior power.

What are the new Luxilon Eco Power strings made from?

The string is made from 90% recycled PET bottles and 10% other plastic packaging materials, the material goes through a recycling procedure to make a new virgin material. It is held to the same quality protocols as all other Luxilon strings. Both Sets and Reels packaging is 100% recyclable. Luxilon innovated a chemical recycling procedure to produce a new virgin material. This material, which measures up to the same high Luxilon standards for durability, strength and tension loss, becomes something the world has never seen before. In short, Luxilon Eco Power is a performance tennis string innovated from entirely recycled materials. Of course, it comes in 100% recyclable packaging.

Does tennis need to do more to find a way to environmentally dispose of used strings?

Overall the industry needs to do more -We are always looking at ways to reuse or turn strings into other products – we do need to keep pushing this to ensure we are doing all we can

Do the game’s top players use the same strings as club players or is there a difference?

They are the same strings as the club players – the professionals may have different ways they set their strings up, but it is very similar.

How would a club player know what string tension they need – does it depend on game style?

There are a lot of things that a player should think about – game style, RQ head size, court surface, temperature and other factors. Testing strings is an important step all players should do as sometimes players get strings recommended to them that aren’t the right for them. So testing is a great way to get a better understanding

A lot of players have different strings on crosses and mains. Can you tell us how that can affect performance?

Hybrid stringing enables players to get the balance between the unique characteristics offered by two different types of strings. Every string has different benefits therefore a hybrid allows the player to get the best of two strings.

Check out details on the new Wilson Luxilon Ecopower string

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