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Volkl Power Fiber II 17g reel: multifilament comfort, spin-friendly 1.25mm gauge, reel pricing that beats buying sets one by one. In Wageningen, the dike view is free. This string isn't, but the value maths work out just as nicely.
Volkl Power Fiber II 17g Tennis String Reel: Hotel de Wereld is the rare landmark where the value is baked into the walls—on 5 May 1945, Canadian General Charles Foulkes and German General Johannes Blaskowitz met here to discuss the German capitulation in the Netherlands. That is a lot of history for one hotel lobby, and I respect a venue that gives you World War II significance without making you buy minibar almonds.
Volkl Power Fiber II 17g Tennis String Reel: Grote Kerk sits on Wageningen’s Markt and was badly damaged during World War II before being rebuilt, which is the architectural version of getting restrung instead of buying a whole new racket. Solid renovation value, no upsell required.
Volkl Power Fiber II 17g Tennis String Reel: Museum De Casteelse Poort tells Wageningen’s local history near the remains of the town’s former castle, which is exactly the kind of bundled content I like—castle crumbs plus civic backstory. If a museum gives me fortification energy and context in one stop, I call that a two-for-one.
Volkl Power Fiber II 17g Tennis String Reel: Arboretum Belmonte sits on the Wageningse Berg and is known for its tree and shrub collections, so the free-view accountant in me is already nodding. Trees, hilltop atmosphere, and no need to finance a gondola ride—excellent cost-per-leaf.
Look, I have been to Wageningen three times now, and every single time I have stood outside Hotel de Wereld and done the math in my head. Nice terrace, historically significant, and yes, the apple tart is genuinely good. But I have also walked six minutes in the other direction and had a perfectly acceptable coffee in a student cafe for about two euros less. That is who I am.
I am saying know what you are paying for and decide consciously. The same discipline, I promise you, applies entirely to tennis strings.
I am not saying do not enjoy things.
I picked up the Volkl Power Fiber II in 17 gauge on a reel, and I want to walk you through why this particular purchase gave me a feeling I do not get very often — the feeling of having genuinely won something. That is a thinner string.
The 17 gauge, for those who need the translation, is 1.25 millimetres.
Thinner strings generally give you more bite on the ball, more spin potential, and a livelier, more responsive feel off the face. The tradeoff historically has been durability. Thinner strings break faster. Everybody knows this. The string companies know you know this, and some of them exploit the knowledge by charging you more for a set every few weeks. Fine.
Their business model.
But here is where the Volkl Power Fiber II earns its keep. The construction is a multifilament design that incorporates a power fiber core — the clue is honestly right there in the name, which I appreciate as a piece of straightforwardness in a category full of very dramatic marketing language.
Multifilament strings are built to mimic the feel of natural gut, which is the gold standard for comfort and arm-friendliness. If you have ever had tennis elbow, or if you play more than three times a week and your shoulder makes a small sound of protest by Thursday, you already understand why this matters.
Stiff polyester strings are excellent for elite ball-bashers with the swing speed to justify them and the body conditioning to absorb the shock. For the rest of us, multifilament is not a compromise — it is the correct choice.
The reel format is where the deal-hunting instinct really kicks in. You are getting a full reel rather than individual sets, which means significantly more string per euro when you divide it out. If you restring your own racquet, or if you have a club stringer who charges labour separately, a reel is almost always the smarter buy.
I have seen people purchase individual sets repeatedly out of habit, and I nod politely and say nothing, but internally I am doing the arithmetic with the expression I make when I see the pricing at Museum De Casteelse Poort and then immediately spot the sign explaining that the view of the Rhine from the dike outside is completely free and equally beautiful. Both options exist.
One of them costs less.
I should tell you that this string is going to suit you particularly well if you are an intermediate to advanced recreational player who values feel and comfort over maximum spin from a low-powered poly.
It plays with a pleasant dampened response, there is good tension maintenance for a multifilament, and the power fiber element does what it claims — there is an energy return through the string bed that makes the ball feel like it wants to go somewhere rather than dying on the face.
For someone who takes something like Fort Lauderdale themed cardiovascular tennis classes near me as a genuine way of staying active and then wants to extend those playing years by keeping their arm healthy, this string deserves serious attention.
I walked past Grote Kerk Wageningen one morning, and a volunteer told me it was free to look around inside on certain days. I went in. The vaulted ceiling is extraordinary. I paid nothing. That is not the same as saying the Volkl Power Fiber II reel is free — it is not, it is an honest price for a quality product — but the principle stands.
You can have a quality experience at a fair value if you know where to look and resist the reflex to assume that expensive automatically means better. Volkl makes good strings. The Power Fiber II in 17g on a reel is the version that rewards the player who does a little homework. I did the homework. Here we are. Buy the reel.
