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Andy Murray String Tension & Setup
A historical equipment profile: the established HEAD-era hybrid, the reported 2024 string reversal, and the final-season move to Yonex.
By String Tension AI · Published · Research checked
This source-based profile separates Andy Murray’s established HEAD-era equipment from changes during his final professional season in 2024. Murray retired after the Paris Olympics that August. Historical stringing reports describe particular setups and reference settings; they do not establish one permanent configuration throughout his career. This is not an official Andy Murray page.
Andy Murray’s established HEAD-era hybrid placed Luxilon ALU Power polyester in the mains and Babolat VS Team natural gut in the crosses. A 2016 Ubitennis report, attributing its table to US Open stringer Giuseppe Sella, records 59.5 lbs (27 kg) in both directions; neither gauge is stated. Other lists give 28 kg or 62 lbs, without establishing one permanent career setting. A February 2024 secondary transcription of Murray’s Tennis TV interview reports that he moved gut into the mains during the offseason; the original video required registration and was not inspected. His long-term frame was specialist-identified as HEAD PT57A, while ATP reporting confirms Yonex EZONE use at Bordeaux in May 2024, before his August retirement. Final-season string identities, gauges and directional tensions remain unresolved. Machine settings are stringing instructions, not targets for later acoustic stringbed estimates.
Evidence: Ubitennis · 2016-10-05 · Tennisnerd · 2019-12-09 · ATP Tour · 2024-05-16 · ATP Tour · 2024-08-01 · FirstSportz · 2024-02-26
Andy Murray’s setup at a glance
- Player
- Andy Murray
- Historical status
- Retired after Paris Olympics · August 2024
- Catalog equipment era
- 2016 US Open report · HEAD period
- Mains
- Luxilon ALU Power · standard variant
- Main gauge
- Gauge not reliably established
- Crosses
- Babolat VS Team natural gut
- Cross gauge
- Gauge not reliably established
- Construction
- Polyester / natural-gut hybrid
- Catalog reference settings
- 59.5 lbs (27 kg) mains / 59.5 lbs (27 kg) crosses · published stringer account
- Early-2024 orientation
- Gut moved to mains · secondary transcription; original not inspected
- Long-term reported HEAD platform
- PT57A / Pro Tour 630 lineage · specialist identification
- Final-season Yonex context
- ATP-confirmed EZONE family · Bordeaux, May 2024
- Evidence status
- Historical source snapshot; final-season details unresolved
- Research checked
- 2026-10-12
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What strings did Andy Murray use, and which went in the mains?
The catalog represents 2016 US Open reporting, not an entire career. Ubitennis’s published table attributes the equipment details to tournament stringer Giuseppe Sella: standard Luxilon ALU Power in the vertical mains and Babolat VS Team natural gut in the horizontal crosses, with 59.5 lbs (27 kg) in each direction.
Colin the Stringer’s Wimbledon article describes the same identities and orientation around 2012–2013. It supplies historical reporting, not evidence that its author personally strung Murray’s frames. Its claims about victories and string performance are not adopted here.
Did Murray reverse his hybrid orientation entering 2024?
FirstSportz’s February 26, 2024 account transcribes Murray describing an offseason move of natural gut from crosses to mains. It also attributes easier depth to his experience of the change; that reported preference is not a universal result.
Original-media limitation: the Tennis TV interview page and its February 26 upload metadata were inspected, but playback required registration. We did not hear the original interview or retrieve an official transcript. The orientation claim is therefore attributed to the secondary transcription. It establishes no exact brands, gauges, directional settings or continuation at every later tournament.
Moving a material between mains and crosses changes the string arrangement. It does not itself change the racquet’s drilling pattern.
Was it ALU Power or ALU Power Rough?
These are distinct variants. Colin the Stringer reports Rough mains before a switch to standard ALU Power before Wimbledon 2012; the 2016 stringer table names standard ALU Power. Those accounts are compatible as history, without proving every intervening job.
The August 2025 Tennisnerd profile instead describes a later gut / ALU Power Rough pairing with EZONE 100, without explicit directions, gauges or tension. It cannot certify an exact final-season setup. We do not invent a later switch date or identify a polyester from its colour.
VS Team, VS Touch and the unresolved gauges
The selected report names VS Team. TennisCompanion uses Touch VS 17, while TennisGear and Too Many Rackets use VS Touch. Colin’s product list calls VS Touch 1.25 formerly VS Team, but also associates Murray with a separate VS Touch listing offering 1.30 and 1.35 mm. That product-description context does not settle the 2016 job.
Neither gauge appears in the selected stringer table. Both public gauge fields are therefore unknown, rather than inheriting 1.30 mm gut or converting a gauge number by assumption. The manufacturer’s ALU Power 125 specification establishes a 1.25 mm retail product, not Murray’s selected gauge; even its gauge label 17 differs from TennisCompanion’s 16L wording.
What tension did Murray use, and why do lists say 28 kg or 62 lbs?
The selected source explicitly gives 27 kg in both directions, displayed here as 59.5 lbs (27 kg) mains and 59.5 lbs (27 kg) crosses. It is a dated historical account, not a permanent setting. We retain the original kilogram value and round only its converted pound display.
TennisCompanion’s undated table supplies a different pair: it prints 28 kg / 62 lbs in each column. Accurate conversions are 61.7 lbs (28.0 kg) and 62.0 lbs (about 28.1 kg). Those rounded labels are not mathematically identical. Monteith Tennis Stringing gives one 62 lbs number; that alone does not establish both directions. Too Many Rackets describes 62 lbs in both directions as an online consensus, without an original ticket.
We do not average these reports, manufacture a lifetime range, or apply a temperature or surface formula. The 28/28 kg figures were removed from the catalog because the old gut-mains/Rough-crosses combination was unsupported by its citation; the replacement pair comes from one coherent report.
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| Period / source | String arrangement | Gauge evidence | Reference settings | Evidence and limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 US Open report Historical reportUbitennis | Standard ALU Power mains / VS Team crosses | Neither gauge stated | 59.5 lbs (27 kg) each; source prints kg | Named tournament-stringer account; published transcription inspected. |
| 2012–2013 retrospective Historical reportColin the Stringer | Standard ALU mains / VS Team crosses; earlier Rough mains | Not stated | Not stated | Attributed historical report; not a personal stringing record. |
| Undated list Historical reportTennisCompanion | ALU Power 16L mains / Touch VS 17 crosses | Gauge labels 16L / 17 | 28 kg / 62 lbs in each column | 28 kg converts to 61.7 lbs; this row is not the selected 2016 job. |
| Undated retailer example Historical reportTennisGear | ALU Power mains / VS Touch crosses | Not stated | Not stated | Explicit directions; retailer evidence only. |
| Undated list Historical reportMonteith Tennis Stringing | ALU Power / VS Touch | Not stated | 62 lbs, one unqualified number | Does not alone establish equal directional settings. |
| Updated 2026 summary of HEAD equipment Historical reportToo Many Rackets | ALU Power mains / VS Touch crosses | Not stated | 62 lbs / 28.1 kg each, described as online consensus | Not independent verification; its career timeline conflicts with ATP. |
| December 2019 Historical reportTennisnerd | String specification not established here | Not stated | Not stated | PT57A / Pro Tour 630 lineage and 16x19 specialist report. |
| August 2025 retrospective Historical reportTennisnerd | Gut / ALU Power Rough; directions not explicit | Not stated | Not stated | EZONE 100 specialist claim; does not establish an exact Paris setup. |
| May 2024 Bordeaux First-party timeline reportATP Tour | Strings not specified | Not stated | Not stated | ATP confirms competitive EZONE-family use, before retirement. |
| February 2024 secondary transcription Secondary transcriptionFirstSportz | Gut moved from crosses to mains, attributed to Murray | Not stated | Not stated | Original Tennis TV playback unavailable; secondary account explicitly labelled. |
Source comparison and equipment timeline
The earlier orientation, the reported offseason change, and the later racquet transition are different events. A model change cannot fill gaps in the string evidence.
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| Period | String arrangement | Racquet context | Evidence and limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earlier than Wimbledon 2012, as reported retrospectively | ALU Power Rough mains / VS Team crosses | HEAD period | Colin the Stringer; reported switch timing, no original job or gauges supplied. |
| 2012–2013 historical report | Standard ALU Power mains / VS Team crosses | HEAD period | Colin the Stringer; descriptive history, no tension stated. |
| 2016 US Open report · selected catalog snapshot | Standard ALU Power mains / VS Team crosses; 59.5 lbs (27 kg) each | HEAD period; no new public racquet record | Ubitennis; named stringer account, neither gauge stated. |
| Offseason entering 2024 | Natural gut reportedly moved into mains | Before the May Yonex transition; no drilling change inferred | FirstSportz, reporting the Tennis TV interview; original playback not inspected. |
| May 2024 · Bordeaux | Complete strings, gauges and settings unresolved | Yonex EZONE family in professional competition | ATP Tour; EZONE 100 is separately named by the 2025 specialist retrospective. |
| August 2024 · retirement after Paris Olympics | Exact Paris job not established | Final professional season | ATP Tour; retirement announcement establishes historical status, not strings. |
What was Murray’s HEAD racquet, and was it a retail Radical?
Tennisnerd’s December 9, 2019 article identifies the PT57A pro-stock platform, Pro Tour 630 lineage and a 16x19 configuration. Too Many Rackets distinguishes the Radical Pro endorsement or paint from a reported PT57A2. These are specialist equipment identifications, not proof that he used a modern retail Radical exactly as sold.
We do not borrow a modern Radical’s mass, pattern or head size. The later reports label the HEAD frame differently: Tennisnerd prints 95 sq in, while Too Many Rackets’s PT57A2 comparison prints 98 sq in. The sources do not resolve that discrepancy here. The August 2025 retrospective also mentions occasional 18x20 use on grass without dated jobs; that is not adopted as a career-wide pattern.
Why did Murray switch to Yonex during his final professional season?
ATP’s May 16, 2024 Bordeaux article documents Murray arriving with Yonex EZONE racquets. It reports his account of buying about ten racquets, measuring them and testing alternatives, after using the same platform for many years. The change occurred during competition, before retirement.
The ATP report establishes the EZONE family. The precise EZONE 100 identification comes separately from Tennisnerd’s August 2025 retrospective. Buying retail racquets does not establish stock equivalence after preparation, personal mass, swingweight, lead quantity or placement. Nor does a Yonex frame establish Yonex strings.
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| Field | Established HEAD-era reporting | Final-season Yonex reporting |
|---|---|---|
| Period | December 2019 identification; later retrospective specifications | May 2024 Bordeaux, before retirement |
| Manufacturer / family | HEAD; Radical endorsement or cosmetics reported by Too Many Rackets | Yonex EZONE confirmed by ATP |
| Reported frame identity | PT57A / Pro Tour 630 lineage, Tennisnerd 2019; PT57A2 in Too Many Rackets | EZONE 100 in Tennisnerd 2025; model number absent from ATP article |
| String pattern | 16x19 in the December 2019 specialist report | Not independently established by the ATP report |
| Head-size labels | 95 sq in in Tennisnerd 2025; 98 sq in in Too Many Rackets’s PT57A2 table; disagreement unresolved | No personal head measurement established; “100” model identification remains specialist reporting |
| Personal specifications | 353 g strung and 332 mm balance reported retrospectively; measurement date and accessories unknown | Mass, balance, swingweight and customization not established |
What is established about his personal racquet specifications?
The retrieved 2025 retrospective prints a HEAD-era strung specification table. Its 353 g mass converts to 12.5 oz under the public weight rule, not the source’s printed 12.4 oz. Static mass is separate from swingweight, conventionally expressed in kg·cm².
The measurement date and included accessories remain unspecified. Neither this mass nor the reported balance is transferred to the later Yonex. No unstrung mass is inferred by subtracting assumed strings, grips or accessories, and no Murray racquet record is added to the public catalog.
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| Field | Reported value | Frame / era | Measurement state | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Static mass | 12.5 oz (353 g converted) | HEAD PT57A retrospective | Strung; measurement date and accessories unspecified | Tennisnerd; source’s 12.4 oz label does not match its grams |
| Balance | 332 mm (33.2 cm) | HEAD PT57A retrospective | Strung as labelled; measurement date unspecified | Tennisnerd |
| Swingweight | Not established from this retrieved specification table | HEAD / later Yonex kept separate | No value adopted in kg·cm² | Tennisnerd |
| Unstrung personal mass | Unknown | Both periods | No assumed strings, grips or accessories subtracted | No supported source value selected |
What we know, and what remains unknown
- Historical status: ATP’s August 1, 2024 announcement confirms retirement after Paris.
- Selected historical job: named standard ALU Power mains / VS Team crosses and equal 27 kg settings in the published 2016 stringer account; both gauges unknown.
- 2024 orientation: an attributed secondary transcription reports gut moving to mains; original playback was not inspected.
- Racquet eras: specialist PT57A identification is separate from ATP-confirmed competitive EZONE-family use.
- Unresolved: complete final-season strings, gauges and directional settings, an exact Paris job, Yonex personal specifications, and a Murray-specific restring schedule.
Research leads about POLYTOUR STRIKE, RPM Rough or a 27.5 kg main setting were not verified in a trustworthy original 2024 report. For unit context only, 27.5 kg converts to 60.6 lbs; that conversion does not turn the lead into Murray’s specification.
Redirects and original-source access limits
The older Tennisnerd URLs ending in 3124 and 37682 both redirected to the August 11, 2025 profile. We cite that retrieved destination as a retrospective, not as the original 2016 or 2024 article. Archive retrieval attempts produced no trustworthy original; no capture date or original publication date is invented.
ATP’s retirement and Bordeaux text and FirstSportz’s transcription were available through indexed source text, while direct requests returned HTTP 403. Too Many Rackets’s original catalog citation was rechecked through its indexed row, which names ALU Power / VS Touch and one 62 lbs figure but no gauges. Its broader claim that HEAD lasted until retirement conflicts with ATP’s Yonex timeline. Lists can repeat each other; their agreement is not proof of independent verification.
Manufacturer product context and shopping links
Wilson / Luxilon’s ALU Power 125 page specifies a polyester product at 1.25 mm. Babolat’s Touch VS page establishes natural-gut construction, but its extracted text did not expose numeric gauge-selector choices. These facts describe retail products, not the gauges of Murray’s selected historical job. Manufacturer performance positioning is not used to explain his choices.
Both former affiliate links were removed. The Rough listing actually offers 1.30 and 1.25 mm options despite its URL, but is a different variant from standard ALU Power. The Touch VS listing defaults to 1.30 mm and does not establish an exact match for the unknown VS Team gauge. Availability on a shopping page is not player evidence. No racquet shopping link is presented as his exact frame.
Should you copy Murray’s setup?
There is no reason to choose this setup solely because Murray used it. It reflects professional equipment and preparation, a particular hybrid orientation, historical frame differences and personal preferences. Incomplete final-season evidence also prevents treating his last year as one reproducible retail recipe.
Use your own frame’s published stringing guidance, the hybrid tension guide and the starting-tension calculator to organize your choices. This profile does not prescribe an exact alternative or attribute results to the string change.
Why a reported 62 lbs setting is not a later app target
The installed stringbed changes after stringing and use. An acoustic result is a modeled installed-stringbed estimate; there is no universal conversion from machine settings to app readings. String Tension AI cannot reconstruct Murray’s original main and cross instructions. Read the machine-setting and app-reading explanation and compare readings with your own fresh-string baseline.
Track your own setup and fresh-string baseline
A professional setup provides context. A useful comparison comes from your own racquet history. In String Tension AI, save your mains and crosses and record their reference settings separately. Keep those instructions separate from later measurements.
Establish a fresh-string baseline, repeat the measurement routine and track tension loss. Compare string jobs alongside feel and playing hours. That history supports your own decisions; it does not imply Murray uses or endorses the app.
What this means for a club player
The main reference setting shown on this page is about 59.5 lbs (27 kg). Our published starting range for a hybrid stringbed is 46–56 lbs (20.9–25.4 kg) (tension guidance reviewed ). The professional setting sits above the top of that starting range.
That comparison is context, not a target. A tour player’s reference setting reflects their own swing, frame, stringer and conditions, and it can change between string jobs.
- Look up your frame’s published range in the racquet tension range table.
- Choose your string construction and playing objective in the starting-tension calculator.
- After restringing, take a fresh-string baseline reading and judge later readings by relative change, alongside feel and hours played.
Andy Murray string setup FAQ
What strings did Andy Murray use?
The selected 2016 US Open report names standard Luxilon ALU Power mains and Babolat VS Team natural-gut crosses. That historical HEAD-era arrangement does not describe every later string job.
What string tension did Andy Murray use?
Ubitennis’s published 2016 stringer table records 59.5 lbs (27 kg) in each direction. Other lists give 28 kg or 62 lbs. These are separate source snapshots, not one lifetime setting.
Did Murray use natural gut in the mains or crosses?
Both orientations appear in the equipment history. The selected HEAD-era report puts gut in the crosses; a secondary transcription of his February 2024 interview reports moving it to the mains.
Did his hybrid orientation change in 2024?
FirstSportz’s indexed transcription attributes an offseason move from gut crosses to gut mains to Murray. The Tennis TV landing page was checked, but original playback required registration. We did not directly verify the spoken interview.
Did he use ALU Power or ALU Power Rough?
The 2016 stringer report names standard ALU Power. Colin the Stringer describes Rough as an earlier setup and reports a switch before Wimbledon 2012. Tennisnerd’s August 2025 retrospective names Rough for the later period without resolving the final job.
What natural gut did he use?
The selected 2016 report names Babolat VS Team. Later lists use VS Touch or Touch VS. Those naming differences remain visible; they do not justify substituting a particular modern retail gauge.
What gauges are reliably documented for this snapshot?
Neither gauge is stated in the selected 2016 stringer table, so both catalog gauge fields are null. Other sources give product or gauge labels, but do not establish the millimetre gauges of that job.
Was his tension 28 kg or 62 lbs?
TennisCompanion prints both rounded labels. Converted accurately, 28 kg is about 61.7 lbs, while 62 lbs is about 28.1 kg. The selected 2016 snapshot instead records 27 kg, about 59.5 lbs.
Are both directional settings known?
For the selected 2016 report, yes: the table explicitly says 27 kg in both directions. Monteith’s single 62 lbs number does not alone establish a pair, and final-season directional settings remain unknown.
What racquet did he use during his HEAD years?
Tennisnerd’s December 2019 article identifies PT57A, a HEAD pro-stock platform with Pro Tour 630 lineage, in a reported 16x19 configuration. This is specialist identification.
Was it the retail HEAD Radical Pro?
The equipment reports distinguish Radical endorsement or cosmetics from the reported PT57A platform. Modern Radical retail specifications do not establish Murray’s personal frame.
What is PT57A?
PT57A is the HEAD pro-stock designation associated by Tennisnerd with the Pro Tour 630 platform. The designation alone does not establish one player’s mass, balance or string pattern.
Did Murray use Yonex before retirement?
Yes. ATP’s May 16, 2024 Bordeaux report documents Yonex EZONE racquets during his professional playing career. ATP announced his retirement after the Paris Olympics that August.
Was the later racquet an EZONE 100?
Tennisnerd’s August 2025 retrospective identifies EZONE 100. ATP’s May 2024 report establishes the EZONE family without a model number; the 100 identification is therefore a separate specialist claim.
Are his final-season strings and tensions fully established?
No. The checked evidence does not establish a complete, dated final-season job or an exact Paris Olympics setup. Earlier brands, gauges and tensions are not transferred to the later frame.
How heavy was his racquet?
Tennisnerd’s August 2025 retrospective reports 12.5 oz (353 g converted) strung for the HEAD frame. The measurement date and included accessories are unspecified. That is not a Yonex specification or a career-wide mass.
Should I copy Murray’s setup?
There is no reason to choose it solely because Murray used it. His historical professional equipment, preparation and preferences differ from yours; use your own frame guidance and playing history.
Can String Tension AI track a hybrid?
You can save mains and crosses, record their reference settings separately, establish a fresh-string baseline and compare later readings alongside feel and playing hours. Murray’s use or endorsement of the app is not implied.
Should an app reading equal the machine setting?
No. An acoustic result is a modeled installed-stringbed estimate. There is no universal conversion from separate machine settings to later readings, and averaging those settings does not measure the installed stringbed.
How often did Murray restring?
The checked sources do not establish a reliable Murray-specific schedule. General tour-stringer practices are not converted into a personal number.
Sources and methodology
We assess each field within its equipment era. A published account from a named tournament stringer supports the selected historical job; specialist identification, undated lists and product descriptions establish different things. Repeated lists may share upstream sourcing and are not counted as independent inspections. The catalog selects the 2016 US Open report: standard ALU Power mains, VS Team crosses, 27 kg each, gauges unknown. The 28 kg / 62 lbs lists and the reported 2024 change remain separate evidence rather than completing this snapshot. See the parent catalog methodology.
Research checked October 12, 2026. ATP text and the FirstSportz transcription were retrieved through the search index; direct requests were blocked by HTTP 403. The Tennis TV landing page and upload metadata were inspected, but playback required registration. No original interview audio/video or trustworthy archived original was obtained. Publication dates are shown only when supplied by the source; an access date is not a claim that an undated page was published that day. No personal racquet was inspected for this profile.
First-party timeline evidence and manufacturer product context
- ATP Tour: Thinker & Tinkerer: Behind Andy Murray’s racquet change · Published 2024-05-16
May 2024 competitive Yonex transition. Reports Yonex EZONE racquets at Bordeaux and Murray’s account of buying, measuring and testing racquets. Limits: EZONE family only; no exact model number, personal specifications, strings or settings. The originally supplied English URL with -feature was not retrievable. Retrieval: ATP article text retrieved through the search index; direct web and curl requests blocked by HTTP 403. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- ATP Tour: Andy Murray retires after history-making career · Published 2024-08-01
Historical status. Confirms retirement following his Paris Olympic Games appearance in August 2024. Limits: Retirement does not establish any equipment specification. Retrieval: ATP announcement text retrieved through the search index; direct web and curl requests blocked by HTTP 403. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Tennis TV: Murray on the change of his racket strings! · Published 2024-02-26
Dubai 2024 original interview destination. Landing page identifies an interview about offseason string changes; page metadata gives upload date February 26, 2024. Limits: Playback requires free registration in the research browser. No original audio/video or official transcript inspected; the landing page does not verify orientation, brands, gauges or tensions. Retrieval: Landing page and upload metadata inspected; browser showed Register to Watch. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Wilson / Luxilon: ALU Power 125 product specifications
Manufacturer retail product context. Lists ALU Power 125 as polyester, 1.25 mm, with gauge label 17. Limits: Product specification, not evidence of Murray’s selected gauge; differs from TennisCompanion’s 16L label. Marketing performance descriptions not adopted. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Babolat: Touch VS 12M
Manufacturer retail product context. Identifies Touch VS as natural gut. Limits: Extracted product text does not expose numeric gauge-selector options. Does not identify Murray’s historical VS Team gauge or certify that every VS label describes one identical product. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
Historical equipment reports and source limitations
- Ubitennis: US Open stringing-room interview and published equipment table · Published 2016-10-05
2016 US Open / HEAD-era snapshot. Published transcription attributed to tournament stringer Giuseppe Sella: Luxilon ALU Power vertical strings (mains), Babolat VS Team horizontal strings (crosses), 27 kg in both directions. Limits: Neither Murray gauge is specified. The article text and table were inspected; the embedded interview audio was not played. This is a stringer account as published by Ubitennis, not our inspection of a racquet or ticket. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Colin the Stringer: Murray’s Wimbledon string choice
Retrospective 2012–2013 HEAD-era reporting. Reports standard ALU Power mains / VS Team crosses and a switch from Rough before Wimbledon 2012. Limits: Publication date not supplied. No gauges or settings; no evidence that the author personally strung Murray’s frames. Causal victory/performance claims are not adopted. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- TennisCompanion: Pro tensions table
Undated equipment-list snapshot consistent with the earlier orientation. Lists Murray with ALU Power 16L mains, Touch VS 17 crosses and 28 kg / 62 lbs in each direction. Limits: No dated Murray stringing ticket or provenance for this row. Gauge numbers are not promoted to millimetres in the selected 2016 snapshot. The printed kg/lbs pair is rounded, not exact. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- TennisGear: Professional string setups
Undated retailer context. Introductory example explicitly assigns ALU Power to Murray’s mains and VS Touch to his crosses. Limits: No Murray gauge or tension in that example; no dated original stringing provenance. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Monteith Tennis Stringing: On tour string list
Undated list. Lists ALU Power / VS Touch and 62 lbs for Murray. Limits: One unqualified setting, no separate main/cross figures, gauges or date. Independent observation is not established. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Too Many Rackets: Andy Murray racquet and strings
HEAD-era report in a later updated article. Explicit ALU Power mains / VS Touch crosses; describes an online consensus of 62 lbs (28.1 kg) in both directions. Separates Radical endorsement from reported PT57A2. Limits: No string gauges or original ticket; the claim that HEAD lasted until retirement conflicts with ATP’s May 2024 Yonex reporting. Its 353 g / 12.4 oz conversion is inconsistent. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Tennisnerd: The Racquet of Andy Murray · Published 2019-12-09
December 2019 HEAD-era specialist identification. Identifies HEAD PT57A / Pro Tour 630 lineage and Murray’s 16x19 pattern, distinguishing that configuration from the original retail platform. Limits: Specialist identification, not HEAD’s certification of his personal frame. No basis here for importing modern Radical retail specifications. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Tennisnerd: Andy Murray’s Racquet — Player Profile · Published 2025-08-11
August 2025 retrospective. Names later EZONE 100 and gut / ALU Power Rough; reports a HEAD PT57A strung mass of 353 g, balance 332 mm and 16x19 pattern, with head size labelled 95 sq in. Limits: String order is not explicitly assigned; no final-season gauges or tensions. Measurement date and accessories unspecified. The source prints 12.4 oz, whereas 353 g rounds to 12.5 oz. Old 3124 and 37682 URLs redirect here and are not separate originals. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- FirstSportz: Report of Murray’s Tennis TV string-change interview · Published 2024-02-26
Offseason entering 2024, as secondarily transcribed. Retrievable indexed text attributes to Murray the move of natural gut from crosses to mains during the offseason and his reported experience of easier depth. Limits: Original media not inspected. No brands, gauges or directional settings established. Its framing about racquets/string pattern is not adopted as a drilling-pattern change. Retrieval: Indexed article text inspected; direct page fetch blocked by HTTP 403. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Colin the Stringer: Restring price list and VS naming context
Undated stringer product catalogue. Calls VS Touch 1.25 formerly VS Team; separately lists VS Touch in 1.30/1.35 and associates it with Murray. Its ALU product description gives 1.25 mm. Limits: This mixes product descriptions and player associations; does not identify the gauges of the selected 2016 job. Not manufacturer confirmation of historical naming. No personal-use gauge promoted. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Courtside Tennis: Touch VS shopping destination audit
Shopping audit; removed link. Listing selected/default option is 16g/1.30 mm; description also mentions 17g/1.25 mm. Add-to-cart and pickup availability are shown. Limits: No verified gauge for the selected 2016 snapshot, so this is not an exact shopping match. Affiliate cross field left null; not equipment evidence. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
- Courtside Tennis: ALU Power Rough shopping destination audit
Shopping audit; removed link. Listing offers 16g/1.30 mm and 17g/1.25 mm despite the slug; default is 16g/1.30 mm, with add-to-cart and pickup availability shown. Limits: Rough is a different variant from the selected standard-ALU snapshot. Both affiliate fields are null; the slug alone was not treated as proof of a gauge mismatch. Retrieval: Retrieved article text. Accessed 2026-10-12.
String Tension AI public data
- String catalog: 2016 HEAD-era reported snapshot
- Racquet catalog: model context and uncertainty notes
- Editorial evidence and source links
Murray’s catalog entry is classified as a historical Legend setup, with no personal racquet record linked. It represents one historical job; the evidence tables explain other eras. The 2026 catalog edition does not describe a 2026 Murray playing setup. See the public racquet weight contract for weight basis and source definitions.