Qatar ExxonMobile Open 2008 (Doha): Tecnifibre official tournament stringing service

Big progress for this year official stringing service operated by Ronald, Michael and Mark: 385 rackets strung which is equivalent to an increase of 43% compared to the events of the last 2 years!!! Excellent weather conditions in Doha/Qatar at the beginning of the tournament resulted in lots of practise on the courts for the pros starting the new season were the main reason for this amazing developement, some rackets for the ITF Junior tournament played at the same time in the Khalifa International Tennis Complex of Doha as well as the fact that last year´s champion and 2008 semi-finalist Ivan Ljubicic (travelling with his personal stringer 1 year ago) trusted the service of the Tecnifibre-team with 30 rackets to be strung. So, lots of works for the stringers -working on TF-8000 machines- sometimes long into the night instead of relaxing evenings with “shisha”, the traditional arabic water pipe...

Click on the link below to get the stringing service statistics.

Some facts:

The biggest consumers:
Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)             30 rackets
Nicolai Davydenko (RUS)     23 rackets
Andy Murray (GBR)             19 rackets

The highest tension:
Hjung-Taik Lee (KOR)        33/27 Kg  >  (73/60 lbs)

The lowest tension:
Filippo Volandri (ITA)          15 Kg  >  (33 lbs)