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Big 10 Tennis Player of the Week.
Jack Anthrop has been playing extraordinary tennis for a long time and was recently named Big 10 Tennis Player of the Week after an impressive outing in Dallas!
The link below will take you to the Ohio State post; however, I want to share some of the things Jack has done to secure the game he has.
Jack uses a Head Speed SMU racquet. The head size is 96 square inches and has a swing weight of 333 kg/cm^. This inertia couples with the overall weight of 352 grams (12.4 oz) to create stability and power.
Jack uses MonoGut ZX Pro natural at a reference tension of 56 pounds and string bed stiffness of 60 pounds. This creates a dynamic stiffness of 393.6 PPI.
Jack has been using Ashaway MonoGut ZX Pro since the age of 9! Yep, that’s right, age 9! MonoGut ZX and ZX Pro material is PEEK, a unique string that offers outstanding comfort, feel, and power with better durability than some other materials.
It is our position that more players of any level should consider MonoGut ZX or ZX Pro (thinner). It really just makes sense…just ask Jack, Big 10 Men’s Tennis Player of the Week!
Let us know if you have questions about Jack’s racquet or string. We have been working with Jack since age 9, and we would like to share what we can to help achieve your tennis goal(s).
Thank you, Head and Ashaway, for your continued support!
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Congratulations, Jack, your new Head Speed SMU’s are on the way.
Head Speed SMU
Head Speed SMU
A Couple of Stringing Basics
Racquet Quest is happy to welcome our new clients!
If you stop by the World Headquarters, we can discuss anything you’d like to know about stringing in general, as well as what we do and why. If you can not stop by, you can take a look at our YouTube Channel for this information.
Either way is good, and we welcome questions and suggestions about anything we do.
Please leave a comment on this page below the post, or you can text us @407.491.4755
You need to see this!
For years, we have been exploring the properties of materials that make up many of the tennis strings used by players now.
What we found, over fifteen (15) years ago, was that polyetherether ketone (PEEK) is the best string material for preventing arm, elbow, shoulder, and other injuries while enhancing performance.
What!
We love natural gut and use a lot of it; however, PEEK can take more “abuse” than natural gut, environmentally.
If you are joining the Racquet Quest community, you may be perplexed by this statement. And for good reason. If you are not near the world headquarters of Racquet Quest, LLC, you may have never heard of PEEK, marketed by Ashaway as MonoGut ZX and ZX Pro.
Why?
PEEK is a unique fiber that requires an understanding of its properties, unlike most other materials that do not possess the performance properties of PEEK.
Stringing with PEEK requires caring about the player and the racquet!
Jason’s Two (2) month old PEEK 17 gauge!
Previous stringing date: 8.3.25
This is an un-retouched photo of Jason’s Wilson’s RF 01 Pro after many hours of rigorous hitting.
String bed stiffness loss…17.7%!
You need to see this!
Ask your racquet technician to set up your racquet with this string. We believe you will be glad you did.
You can use this, not that!
Racquet Quest is constructing a “dynamic stiffness test” device to perform dynamic testing of tennis racquet string beds.
Why? So we can determine the string bed stiffness that will suit and even enhance performance on the court.
String bed stiffness is a significant number, and we take it in four (4) ways, but they are “static” methods. Static in the sense that the load is applied rather slowly. String bed stiffness is significant because players may not hit the ball slowly!
Our Questron pulls loads all the way to failure on all sorts of strings, but it is one (1) string, not a bunch like a strung racquet; therefore, our dynamic device will hit the string bed with a variable force, associated with a “harder” ball strike!
It is essential to understand when a string bed may be too harsh or too compliant for a player by learning the dynamic stiffness of various tennis racquets, string patterns, and strings.
So, use this, not that!
We take this data now, and it makes much sense; however, our new device will be more precise.
Stay tuned!
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