New racket missing top cross string?

It’s not common to see stringers use different patterns, knots and tie point. Even amongst Yonex credited stringers across the tournament circuit.

For the mentioned 5 teeth clamp issues above. It can be easily solved by doing the last cross then back to second last and tension it twice then tie off. This will result in the last cross being a bit less tension but a lot of Yonex stringers advocate perimeter strings to be slightly less. Otherwise two flying clamp will do the job too.

Yonex asia, finish knot of the cross string at the share hole on the 11th vertical string grommet to take pressure off the 5th vertical string where often snapped string occurs. The procedure as follows- a stringer reach the cross at the 11th vertical shared hole. They then work from the last cross down to the 11th grommet to finish knot.

I have since adopted this method and seems to have lower the chance of the vertical string snapping where the knot is typical situated on the vertical.

As seen on youtube video European stringers are adopting the Yonex asia method i explained above.

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