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Pick your frame and how you play. We calculate the tension from the frame's verified head size, string pattern and stiffness, then name what to put in it — the whole bed in one string, or a hybrid, each with its own number and its own knot count.

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How you play

One answer — it sets the family, the gauge and the number
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Your racquet

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The proposal

The proposal

AI, from verified specs

For Babolat Boost Aero 2026 (260 g) · Heavy-spin baseliner

  1. A The whole bed, one string 2 knots
    Mains & crosses Babolat RPM Blast 1.20 21.5 kg 47.4 lb

    Polyester through the mains and the crosses. One piece through the whole bed, so a knot at each end — two. Some frames and some stringers take two pieces instead, and then it is four.

  2. B Hybrid 4 knots
    Mains Babolat RPM Blast 1.20 21.5 kg 47.4 lb
    Crosses Babolat Addixion+ 1.25 22.0 kg 48.5 lb

    Polyester in the mains for the bite, multifilament in the crosses for the arm. Two different strings is two pieces of string, so a knot at each end of each — four. There is no one-piece hybrid.

Working range for this frame
21.0 – 22.0 kg 46.3 – 48.5 lb
18 kg23.5 kg29 kg
High confidence — this frame's specs are verified against the maker's own sheet.

Your stringbed

102.0 in² · 16 × 19 · 21.5 kg
The forgiving area — illustrated, not measured: a bigger head and a lower tension leave more of it, and it sits below the middle of the hoop, where the impact node is. The 16 mains and 19 crosses are this frame's own pattern.

How it loses tension

20 hours of play
0h 2h 5h 10h 15h 20h
  • Polyester Setup A mains & crosses · 21.5 kg · Setup B mains · 21.5 kg
  • Multifilament / synthetic gut Setup B crosses · 22.0 kg
  • Natural gut not in this proposal
The shape is the claim, not a number: the ranking is Tennis Warehouse University's, whose own research also says a string is never in the same state twice. So this chart carries no percentage we cannot stand behind.
This frame carries no printed range, so we start at 23.5 kg — the middle of the ranges the makers do print, across the 155 frames here that have one.
A polyester is the stiffest material in the shop, and the printed range assumes nylon — so two kilos come off before anything else. This is the correction most club players miss.
The 16×19 pattern lets the mains slide and snap back, which needs no tension correction of its own.
Stiffness (RA) isn't on file for this frame yet, so there is no correction for it — the number above assumes an average layup.
The 102 in² head hands out free depth, so half a kilo more holds the length.
Heavy spin wants a bed that moves: half a kilo lower lets the mains slide and snap back, which is what puts the shape on the ball.
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The strings

Every card says which setup it is for

Scored against this frame out of the 120 strings on file — family, shape, gauge and price. Each card says where it sits in the proposal above; the two without a setup are the next best the engine scored for this frame.

Setup A — mains & crossesSetup B — mains

Babolat RPM Blast 1.20

polyester · 1.20 mm · €14.52

  • A polyester is what lets the mains snap back, which is where the bite comes from.
  • Its octagonal profile is what bites the ball.
  • Babolat make both — the frame and the string were designed against each other and are sold as a pair.
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Setup B — crosses

Babolat Addixion+ 1.25

multifilament · 1.25 mm · €11.90

  • Babolat make both — the frame and the string were designed against each other and are sold as a pair.
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Restring every 12 – 15 hours; a shaped string notches fast in the mains.
Indoor courts play faster: drop about 1 kg from the numbers above for the indoor season.
A set strings one racquet. A reel is cheaper per frame and is worth it from roughly the fourth restring.

Where to buy this frame

Babolat Boost Aero 2026 (260 g)

Prices as we recorded them on 22 Sep 2026, not a live feed — check the shop before buying · We may earn a commission when you buy through these links, at no cost to you — it never changes a score.

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