yer simply changesracquets and continues playing. But knowing how stung or unstrung a racquet is, can bevery difficult, especially during a match. Ashway, thus, set out to create strings thatwould have a long-lasting life when it comes to their original tension. In 1992, Ashwayintroduced a long line of tension-lasting strings which were made out of a very roughsynthetic gut that provided great control as well. These strings were an instant success allover the world, and Ashway rose as one of the main string makers on the market today.Babolat, however, immediately started experimenting with technologies whichwould make their strings even better. In 1996 they revealed a whole new technologywhich quickly caught up with the players and is currently the best-selling string on themarket. Fiber Ace is one of Babolat's new French-made Fibergut strings using theirexclusive Air Jet technology. It's a multifilament string with 1120 high resilience fibersand co-polymer matrix. Its main benefits, according to Babolat, are excellent playabilityand control, combined with unmatched tension maintenance for a multifiber syntheticstring, (Larin 2). Major tennis companies such as Wilson, Prince, Head, Yonex andothers, introduced their own lines of these strings, but the popularity as well as leadinggross sales of strings remain with the companies like Babolat, Gamma, and Ashway. Grips have been an interesting part of tennis apparel, because although they havechanged significantly in the past 50 years, majority of the todays players still use onetype of grip which has been invented over 20 years ago. Up until 1978, grips have beenmade out of refined pig skin or synthetic leather. That same year, however, anindependent American TournaGrip company came out with its adaptation of disposablegrips. Made out of a super-obsorbent synthetic textile and nylon material, this gripprovided great moisture absorption, aside from being a good grip for the play...
