Ranked on lab data
Best tennis strings fortension maintenance
It goes dead a week after stringing. Every one of 783 currently-produced strings carrying the measurements this ranking needs was scored against it — these are the 15 that came out on top, capped at two per brand so gauge variants of one string cannot fill the list.
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 99% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 99% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 95% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 97% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 99% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 98% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 97% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 98% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 95% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 88% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 98% of the database
- Livelier than 96% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 97% of the database
- Livelier than 95% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 98% of the database
- Livelier than 88% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 96% of the database
- Livelier than 99% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 96% of the database
- Livelier than 93% of the database
The same ranking, without gut
Seven of the 15 above are gut, which is an honest result and an unhelpful page — it wins this ranking outright and costs several times what anything else does. Ruled out before scoring rather than penalised during it, so the fit percentages below stay honest about what is left.
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 95% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 97% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 95% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 88% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 98% of the database
- Livelier than 96% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 97% of the database
- Livelier than 95% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 98% of the database
- Livelier than 88% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 96% of the database
- Livelier than 93% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 96% of the database
- Livelier than 96% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 97% of the database
- Livelier than 86% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 96% of the database
- Livelier than 92% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 99% of the database
- Livelier than 74% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 97% of the database
- Livelier than 84% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 96% of the database
- Livelier than 90% of the database
- Holds its tension better than 94% of the database
- Livelier than 95% of the database
What "tension maintenance" is actually ranked on
- Tension loss ↓ lower decisive
- Energy return ↑ higher light
Least tension shed under the test protocol, with a nudge toward strings that stay lively as well as staying at tension.
Each string is scored on where it sits in the database on each measurement above, never on an absolute figure, so the ranking is always relative to what actually exists. How these numbers are made →
Make this specific to your racquet
This page ranks the database on the need alone. String pattern, head size and frame stiffness each move the answer, and a stiff frame removes the firmest quarter of the database outright rather than merely ranking it down — the finder applies all of that and shows you which picks changed as a result.
Ranked for something else
- More spin and shape Heavier topspin, more margin over the net
- Easier on my arm Elbow, wrist or shoulder soreness
- More control, less launch The ball is flying long on you
- More power and depth You are working too hard for pace
- Lasts longer before it breaks You are snapping strings too often
- Best feel and touch Volleys, slice, drop shots, feedback