Matcheur N°4 — 200 m Reel
€79.90
“Firm in the hand, generous at impact.”
16 stringings from a single production batch. One reel covers a full season for a single player, or a few weeks on a workshop bench.
An octagonal monofilament measured at both ends of the load range. Read at stringing tension it sits among the firmer strings of the range; loaded the way a struck ball loads it, it is the one that yields the most. Firm under the hand, generous at impact — and the octagonal section adds a bite the round N°5 does not have.
Specs: octagonal monofilament · 1.65 g/m · 7.6% elongation · 1.15 / 1.20 / 1.25 mm · 200 m reel (16 sets).
Profile: firm at stringing tension, compliant under load, octagonal bite — N°4 on the scale.
→ Read: at impact, your string is not at the tension you strung it
Quantity
The Matcheur scale — N°1 to N°7
One range, readable end to end: from N°1, the softest and most powerful, to N°7, the stiffest and most controlled — with N°4 at the balance point. You don't change brand when your game changes, you change number. Each number stands for a measured behaviour, not a marketing name.
What the measurement says
Linear density 1.65 g/m, elongation 7.6% — a single point, read at stringing tension, and that is not where the ball meets the string. On the bench, in 1.25, the N°4 gives 0.65 mm per extra kilo between 15 and 25 kg, and 1.25 mm per extra kilo between 31 and 39 kg: its compliance nearly doubles as the load rises, and it is the only string in the range that behaves this way. A 3 cm deflection of the string bed takes a central main from 24 kg to around 30 kg, 4 cm past 33 kg — that upper band is where the N°4 gives its length. Measured over 180 mm of stretched section, in quasi-static tension: the bench establishes the order and the relative magnitude, not the absolute tension reached during contact. Every figure in the range is measured the same way: the numbers compare against each other. At impact, your string is not at the tension you strung it
Gauges & structure
Octagonal section: eight edges that grip the felt and release the string on the way back (snapback). Gauges 1.15 / 1.20 / 1.25 mm. A thinner gauge bites more and returns more spin but wears faster; a thicker one lasts longer and moves toward neutral.
Set or reel
200 m — 16 sets of 12 m, and a lower cost per stringing. One reel, one production batch: same material, same tension behaviour from the first stringing to the last — the reference condition for comparing your own tensions. Matcheur N°4 — 12 m set