One tennis string to rule them all - YTEX ProTour Blue String Review
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Timestamps and some notes below 👇🏽
This is my fav. string of all time: the one stRING to rule them all. I tried my best to be unbiased, but I honestly don't think I succeeded. Regardless, I've always felt that more folks should know about this amazing string and I took the time to discuss my views on it at length.
The video ends in a cliffhanger but worry not; I'm working up to a video that needs other to build on it. The cliffhanger should be resolved over the next 2-4 videos.
One thing you'll notice is that ProTour comes in different colors and gauges. Unfortunately, it only comes in those multiple gauges for the blue, black and orange colors. I reached out to YTEX about this and this is what they had to say:
All of our polys & co-polys are manufactured in Germany and its a big financial investment when you order different gauges and colors. Each gauge has a MOQ (minimum order quantity) so we are selective how many gauges and colors we carry and this is based on which sells the best.
While with some strings there is a difference in playability with different colors, it's minor with ProTour. Again, I reached out to YTEX to ask about it and this is what they had to say:
The raw materials which are used to make the different colors does make the strings play slightly different. On our Quadro Twist and Square-X, there is a big noticeable difference between the black and white colors. Our black colors plays much softer than the white which plays crispier and stiffer. On our ProTour series, the colors have a lot less difference in playability but you will feel a slight difference when playtesting.
Kent's (Open Court's) review of YTEX ProTour Blue:
• Ytex Pro Tour String R...
My review of ReString Sync:
• ReString Sync Review -...
My collab with Kent (Open Court) on Solinco Hybrids:
• FUSION! Solinco Hybrid...
My review of Gosen OG Sheep Micro:
• $5!!! 🤯♥️🇯🇵 Gosen OG-S...
Check out YTEX ProTour Blue:
www.ytexstrings.com/collectio...
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00:00 Intro
01:05 Soft, all-round poly with AMAZING tension maintenance
01:52 Easy power and depth with no harshness or mutedness
02:44 What makes this the best feeling string: ball pocketing...FINALLY!
03:54 Responsiveness: ProTour caters to every style of hitting IMO
04:58 Spin is "good enough": the only real con?
05:28 A BALANCED setup is really important
05:59 Spin generation and heavy/thin balls
07:15 Hybrids and why they're so important
09:25 ProTour Blue as the new benchmark for a synthetic gut
09:43 YTEX ProTour Blue X ReString Sync
11:47 YTEX ProTour Blue X Gosen OG Sheep Micro
12:46 Outro
Пікірлер: 5
Keep these unique reviews coming! Just bought a set on Amazon to try as a cross to Sync. Any verdict on the best overgrip, yet?
@11sweetspot11
2 ай бұрын
That’s the very next video coming up! In three days time (on Wednesday May 15). Just beware that PTB as a cross may not last as long because it’s softer than Sync. I didn’t test it in this configuration, only in PTB crossed with Sync.
@glademaster
2 ай бұрын
@@11sweetspot11 but isn’t it the mains that usually get notched from getting sawed into by the crosses?
@11sweetspot11
2 ай бұрын
This is very good question actually. With strings everything comes down to essentially one property: stiffness. The answer below is a bit detailed but I wanted to do my best to explain my answer. There's more to come on this in future videos (stay tuned! 🙏) since I’m working on understanding this better. I've always had it the other way around: it's my crosses that notch, i.e. the mains saw into them (which causes the mains to 'settle into' them and this makes is harder for them to snap out of that position and reduces the spin I get). I’m not a string breaker, so this is all I get to see. If you have a racket lying around with a poly in it that has been hit with for 8-12 hours you should be able to check to see what has been sawed into. If it's the other way around (crosses sawing into mains) then your mains are likely the softer material. This is a good rule of thumb - that the softer material will always be the one that gets sawed into. That’s the best explanation I got at the moment 🤷🏽♂️
This guy is just a clown.