serious competition in the string business until 1988, whena French company called Babolat, introduced a new implementation of kevlar along withmulti-polyamid wrap called the Kevlar Gear. This breakthrough technology is widelyused by the more advanced players, as well as professionals. The Kevlar Gear mainstring combines the tremendous durability of Kevlar with the revolutionary sharp gearteeth that bite the ball and create unbelievable spin and control, (Boatner 67). Gammaintroduced its own version the following year, but had over 50 percent less sales thanBabolat company, which continued introducing new lines of string technology in 1990,with gut polyamid wrapped and gut fiber coated strings.The main advantages of these two strings was the implementation of a cheapergut nylon, as oppose to the high-maintenance kevlar. Gut nylon has proven to be just asstrong as kevlar, yet it produces better spin and control for the players. By wrapping gutinto polyamide nylon or a fiber coating, the final string had a long lasting life, as well asgreat grip on the ball. The strings were especially popular among the professionalplayers on the ATP and WTA tours. Another company, American Ashway, came with anew concept of making strings more durable when it comes to their tension. All strings are strung very hard on the racquets to ensure better control. The wayto measure how strung a string is, is measure on how much pressure the string has on thehead frame of a racquets. This is measured in pounds or kilograms. Average racquetsare strung at around 60 pounds or 26 kilograms. Professional players tend to have itstrung higher than that because the higher strung the racquets is, the more responsive andaccurate are the shots of a player. The problem, however, is not that strings would brake,but that they would relax during the match and seriously affect players performance. If aplayer brakes a string, he or she knows it right away, so the pla...
