Once a blip on the racquet-spec radar, string pattern has become an increasingly important—and complicated—consideration. Here are a few things you should know about strings before your next ...

And then he loops the string around and around and around ... Never mind that he did it all by hand.

When I switched a couple of years ago to the latest model of the Extreme Pro (the YouTek), I had an issue with the fact that Head changed the string configuration to a more open pattern.