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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. Each spaghetti is a kind of unique piece of art after labor intensive job. Original spaghetti seeks two sets of strings. Final product is the result of the stringer's experience and a LOT of hand work"When Argentine superstar Guillermo Vilas met Ilie Nastase in the best of five set final of the Aix-en-Provence tournament in early October 1977, he dropped the first two sets by 6--1, 7--5 and then retired in protest of Nastase's use of the Vilsbiburger racquet! Thus Nastase snapped Vilas' world record 53-match winning streak on clay courts which stood until the record was broken by Rafael Nadal in 2006. "It was really the racket," Vilas said. "I didn't lose against a player, I lost against a racket." He and his coach Ion Tiriac then used their big influence on the ITF, causing it to ban the Vilsbiburger racquet at the end of October 1977. What is remarkable: While condemning the racquet in public, Vilas did use the racquet himself, not officially, but during training sessions. His trainer and manager Ion Tiriac said: "Guillermo simply is unbeatable with the double-stringing system in his training matches!""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 (1978) and then became tennis history."excerpts from 'Spaghetti' 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; 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 now 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. .. 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!"