*HEAD Professional* SPAGHETTI Vilbisburger triple strung No.045-46 racket paired

Description: Triple strung spaghetti racquet alla Fishbach invented 1977. Probably just the 4th & 5th in existence and the 1st pair after Fishbach's (1st stored in Racket museum Pleasant Hill, CA, USA; 2nd V.P. Provence - France; 3rd Tennis Museum, Beijing, China). The racket strung in the same way as Michael strung his sticks almost 50y ago for his epic win over Stan Smith in USO'77. According to his after the match testimony, he spent nearly 30 hours or almost 4 working days in preparing the racket. Fishbach invention (triple stringing) allowed loading +200 kg on the strings, what significantly increased control. The lack of control was the biggest issue of the spaghetti concept and exactly this improvement obviously made it competitive at the pro level. It result in Fishbach passing qualifications and lately took the place in his 1st and only Slam R3. Still ranked out of top 100, his R2 defeat of Stan Smith in two sets 62 63, was a big surprise, just a few weeks before Tiriac's coordinated action when spaghetti would be forbidden forever. Stringing his beauty, Mike used triple strung crosses for tighter and better balance the load on the frame. He also successfully played around with design in America's national flag colors, using blue tape as grip extending and balance compensation (+25-30gr spaghetti at the top drastically affects racket balance). If it had not been so dramatic and pompous interrupted at the very takeoff, no one can guess where Vilbisburger concept would have end ADDITIONAL NOTES (no need to read)principles The spaghetti job works by allowing the mains to move freely and in unison, but still connected and all together. The originals were double-strung because they had two duplicate layers of mains sandwiching one layer of crosses. Each of the crosses is also double-strung to add strength and keep the frame shape. The goal is spin improving, unpredictability and depth of the shots. Each spaghetti is a kind of unique piece of art after labor intensive job. Original spaghetti seeks two sets of strings, tubes, ropes and other material and tools in addition. Final product is the result of the stringer's experience, understanding and a LOT of hand workstory "Guillermo Vilas (2) met Ilie Nastase (6) in the best of five set Aix-en-Provence final in early October 1977. Argentinian dropped the first two sets and then retired in protest of Nastase's use of the Vilsbiburger strung racquet. Some testify that a few fresh spaghetti strung sticks were delivered to Ilie just shortly before the match. Defeating Vilas, Nastase snapped his 53-match winning streak record on clay courts, stood until Rafael Nadal broke it 2006. "It was really the racket," Guillermo said "I didn't lose against a player, I lost against a racket (strings)" During his training sessions Vilas did use spaghetti himself. His trainer and manager Ion Tiriac, also likely creator of the scenario, said after the match: "Guillermo simply is unbeatable with the double-stringing system in his training matches". Tiriac's strong protest causing ITF to ban the Vilsbiburger strung racquets at the end of Oct‘77 There are at least few fascinating facts about this match, which deeply influenced tennis history we know today. Nastase manage to finish Vilas 46 consecutive matches winning streak, still resisted all-time record. More than that, as Guillermo continued to win all through the end of the season, his winning streak excluding that unfortunate spaghetti defeat, was in fact incredible 70+ matches! Vilas were finally defeated fair and square by the incoming young star, lately one of the greatest champions Bjorn Borg (SWE), at the year ending Masters SF which took the place in Jan’78 in NY-USA. Before that match Guillermo won the last match in his streak vs. Connors 6-4 3-6 7-5, proving once more the absolute domination before he W/O vs. Eddie Dibbs in RR. Many facts proving Vilas was indisputable the best tennis player 1977, recording few all-time records including 148 wins and 16 titles in single season with 2 Slams. 47 years later, this records are still lasting. On that way, he defeated twice his main rival, 5 consecutive years ending World No.1 Jimmy Connors (USA), at his home soil, clay and hard, including US Open’77 final, Jimmy’s only Slam final that year. With the great help of the ATP scoring system, Connors become the first player who kept No.1 position without winning a single Slam title that seson (in selection with Marcelo Rios (CHI) 1998). Connors also finished 1977 as world No.1, becoming the first and only to make that goal winning total of 8 other tournaments that year. Same time Vilas, holding 3 Slams after AO’78 (FO’77; USO’77 & AO’78) didn’t spend ONE SINGLE week as World No.1, according official ATP ranking. Obviously even missed 17th Aix-en-Provence title would not guarantee him the final win over the powerful interests out of the court, laid at his way to deserved No.1 position “The greatest tennis swindle”, conspiracy, paradox or simple facts - whatever, yet something unrepeated on that level until Seles / Djokovic case, with certain protocol improvements. "GOAT, where two shouldn't be" *1973 Ilie Nastase finished as ATP World No.1 winning his only Slam that year in RG ”..Fishbach’s performance at the U.S. Open sent the tennis establishment into an uproar. Then Goven beat Ilie Nastase in the first round of a Paris tournament using the new strings. Within a week Nastase himself adopted spaghetti strings, beat Guillermo Vilas in the first two sets of a match, and watched Vilas storm off the court. According to the Rules of Tennis, Rule 4 introduced in 1978 was in response to a stringing system patented the previous year (US Patent 4273331, 8 December 1977) which could generate almost twice as much spin as a conventionally-strung racket, dubbed 'spaghetti' stringing. Rule 4: "The hitting surface of the racket shall be flat and consist of a pattern of crossed strings connected to a frame and alternately interlaced or bonded where they cross" tends to limit the movement between strings and, thus, the spin imparted to the ball”discussions "The racquet in question has no official or generic name, but has been called the 'Phillips-Moore' - after Phillips-Moore, Australian pro who popularized it this past summer on the European circuit; 'The Fischer' - after Warner Fischer, the West German who devised the original and is producing racquets strung with the pattern...not to be confused with Fischer racquet company of the USA and Germany; 'Vilsbiburger' - after Fischer's town-club where he firstly popularized it, as well as his company base lately; the 'Wonder Racquet'; the 'The Fishbach' - after Mike Fishbach who defeated Billy Martin and Stan Smith in the US Open at Forest Hills; the 'fishline', the 'spaghetti' - this two terms describing materials often used in the pattern, but also strung pieces fell apart during the game which could be found all over the court; and the 'doublle strung' - since the racquet has 16 or 18 pairs of mains, which are separated by the 4 to 6 crosses. Keep on mind that there really is no 'right' way to string this pattern. The object is a stringing pattern that gets spin on the ball, and depth on the shots." 'Spaghetti' is open source idea leaning at stringer imagination, understanding and skill" "In 1971 a German horticulturist, Werner Fischer, invented a new way to string tennis racquets. It generated so much spin on the ball that it was eventually banned by the International Tennis Federation in 1978. One of the problems was that players of relatively low standing were able to beat top players by generating much more spin than the top players could at the time. Ironically, the modern game of tennis has evolved to the point where players like Nadal can generate almost as much spin as Fisher could in the 1970’s with his spaghetti strings. Modern players run back and forth across the baseline in long rallies, rarely daring to come to the net since they can easily be passed down the sideline or overhead with a topspin lob. That was one of the reasons that the spaghetti stringing system was banned. The first was, it was too complicated, short lasting and therefore expensive – not appropriate for the massive sport" "The first "spaghetti strung" tennis racket was created by a German named Werner Fischer. Fischer was a from the small town of Vilsbiburg in Bavaria, Germany. This odd racket stringing idea occurred to Fischer in 1971 during a tennis match, he wondered : Why should the strings yield and flick back only in the direction of the ball? Why not in a perpendicular direction when the ball is hit and the racket moves form down upwards? As a result, Fischer experimented with double stringing rackets and using additional sting movement and griping enhancements like tubes. These rackets became famous and popular pretty quickly because of the unbelievable spin produced and they were later referred to as "Vilsbiburger" or "Spaghetti" stringing. Fischer and a few other players using these rackets started winning lots more tennis matches and causing quite a lot of worry in the tennis tours. As a result, the International Tennis Federation, well aware of the danger facing the traditional tennis game, intervened in 1978 and banned all kind of double stringing. These string jobs are works of art, especially to the professional stringers since even experience veterans needed hours to string a racket. The special materials required, strings, special cements, nylon tubes and robes, which are not available today. The Werner Fischer Vilsbiburger "SPAGHETTI" stringing pattern became so controversial it was banned with 18 months because several other players started using spaghetti stringing jobs including Aussie Barry Phillips Moore and Ille Nastase. After Nastase defeated Vilas and broke his incredible winning streak, the racket was banned for tournament play and then became tennis history." "I've been stringing racquets since the early '80s. I can string a racquet in 18-20 minutes. Spaghetti took me 5 hours. There's a lot of thinking and preparation. Materials: racquet whole set of strings for mains (20 ft.) half set of strings for crosses nylon or teflon tubing twine awl pathfinder awl snipers needle nose pliers curved pliers." "I love to string racquets. In fact, I string for free, other than cost of the strings. I must say, I had no joy at all stringing spaghetti, and you could not pay me enough to string one racquet in 5 hours. Realistically, I could probably get it down to 3.5 hours, but it still would not be worth my time. (a.c. after 20+ strung - NO WAY - I still didn't finish ANY classic spaghetti within a day, or less than 10 hours work, but usualy more) I consider myself to be a very efficient and ergonomic stringer. This is my first (and probably last) spaghetti string job. It took me a long time, and it was not fun. Using the awl so often was nerve racking and kind of hurt my fingers" "I know it's illegal, but just I wanted to try it. I wanted to make it as close to the original spaghetti stringing from the '70s as possible and I wanted to share my experiences. Was it worth the effort? For just the experience, yes. Now I know what it feels like. I've always wondered about it since I was a kid. Would I string one again? No way. Someone could offer me $200 right now to string one, and I'd say no. Not worth the time" "I spaghetti strung my i.prestige! And it was a huge undertaking, and your right $200 wouldn't be enough to do it again!"Q&A ..the rarely resisted originally strung spaghetti from the 70s are 45+y old today and unusable due to materials aging. Spaghetti also last only a few hours in play, or even less in pro-tournament game. We can guess the main reason ITF forbid this great invention wasn't 'too much spin', but the fact that win wold be reserved for the selected, rich enough to allow few spaghetti strings per match, what could drastically narrow tennis base ..some data says Werner Fischer bought 1000 Kuebler's Mark 77 and Plus 40 frames just before the bann caused disaster to his promising business. Probbably there are no more than 100 originals resisted. Many collectors today treat this kind of exotic handiwork as favorite jewels in their collection that attract special attention Q: do you do Vilsbibuger stringing by yourself? A: yes, 10y experience, cca. 5 pcs/year. Everyone is invited to try and share own experience Q: this frame seems not at the top of condition? A: Usually the frames are selected between the best available, still the tracks of passed time could be more visible on some of them. The assumption is that the main worth in this concept wasn't made in factory, but in customization Q: it is not a natural gut? A: Right. The Spaghetti main goal is sliding between the mains and crosses. Natural gut shows significant resistance, therefore tears too soon. Using natural gut could be pretty expesive as well, counting with the fact that double stringing seeks two sets of strings. We use natural colored nylon 1.40, or thinner where grommets do not allow, strung at mechanical/manual machine as used in original. In contrast, natural cotton ropes bites the ball best, but tears fast as well. We use both, natural cotton and sythetic ropes Q: how would you explain the feel playing spaghetti? A: the other sport SHIPPING note: Official delivery time does not include state and religious holidays and unexpected customs procedure/retention. The customer need to be prepared for the possible elongated procedure or refrain from this purchase in advance. 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End Time: 2024-09-29T14:04:49.000Z

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