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Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)
Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)
Snake-Bite cost per restring compared to Babolat, Tecnifibre, Solinco and Head shaped polyesters
Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)
Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)
Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)
Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)
Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)
Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)
Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)
Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)

Snake-Bite - Golden Set Tennis

Snake-Bite is Golden Set's best-selling string: a twisted, seven-sided co-polyester built for spin... more
Snake-Bite is Golden Set's best-selling string: a twisted, seven-sided co-polyester built for spin. It holds tension and lasts like polyesters costing two to three times as much, Babolat™ RPM Blast being the obvious comparison, and it suits everyone from club players to touring pros. Sold in 660 ft (200 m) reels; one reel strings up to 18 racquets. less
Specifications
CONSTRUCTION: Co-polyester monofilament with a twisted heptagonal (seven-sided) cross-section.

DESCRIPTION: The twisted edges grip the ball for exceptional spin, and the co-poly core delivers the tension ? maintenance and durability you expect from a premium polyester. The feel is firm and controlled; for something softer, pair Snake-Bite mains with Synthetic Gut crosses in a hybrid ?.

GAUGES: 16 (1.30 mm) or 17 (1.25 mm) ? — select below.

COLORS: Black or Red ? — select below.

? Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Is this string right for me?
CASE 1 - You've played polyester before and liked it:
You'll feel at home. Snake-Bite has the firm, controlled response of any good co-poly, with more bite than a round string thanks to its twisted profile.

Start at whatever tension ? has worked for you in other polyesters.
CASE 2 - You haven't tried polyester yet:
Unless you have arm issues (tennis elbow or similar), it's worth trying, and Snake-Bite is a good first polyester. The easiest way in is a hybrid ?: Snake-Bite in the mains, a softer string such as Golden Set Synthetic Gut in the crosses. You get most of the spin with a string bed that feels closer to what you're used to. If that works, go full Snake-Bite on the next restring.
CASE 3 - You've tried polyester but found it too stiff:
Before writing off Snake-Bite for being a polyester, check two things:

• Did you try it in a hybrid ? with a softer string?
Polyester mains with a softer cross string bring the feel most of the way back while keeping the spin. If you only ever tried a full poly bed, a hybrid may be the answer.

• Was it strung too tight?
Polyester is a stiff material and rewards a lower tension ? than you might expect. A few pounds lower is often the difference between boardy and crisp.
Q. What tension should I string Snake-Bite at?
Use whatever tension ? has worked for you with other polyesters. Too stiff? Drop a few pounds on the next restring; polyesters can go surprisingly low before control suffers. Too lively or lacking control? Come back up.
Q. What gauge is right for me?
CASE 1 - Durability is not a big concern:
Go with 17. The thinner gauge ? gives you more feel and more spin.
CASE 2 - Durability matters to you:
It's a trade-off. 17 gauge ? plays with more spin and feel; 16 gauge lasts longer, and you can expect 17 to give up roughly a third sooner. A good compromise is a hybrid ? of 16 gauge Snake-Bite in the mains with 17 gauge Snake-Bite in the crosses: 16-gauge durability with some of the 17-gauge feel.

Snake-Bite Reels (660ft/200m)

94.25 USD
84.82 USD Save: 10% off ?
buy 1 $ 84.82
buy 2 $ 78.45 USD
buy 3+ $ 72.09 USD

Gauge: 16 (1.30 mm)

Length: 660' (200 m)

Color: Black

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Gauge: 16 (1.30 mm)

Length: 660' (200 m)

Color: Red

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Gauge: 17 (1.25 mm)

Length: 660' (200 m)

Color: Black

USA: In Stock ( Free Shipping ?)
(ships immediately)
Intern'l: In Stock ( Free Shipping ?)
(ships immediately)
Canada: In Stock ( Free Shipping ? )
(ships immediately)

Gauge: 17 (1.25 mm)

Length: 660' (200 m)

Color: Red

USA: In Stock ( Free Shipping ?)
(ships immediately)
Intern'l: In Stock ( Free Shipping ?)
(ships immediately)
Canada: In Stock ( Free Shipping ? )
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  • 5 stars: 197 (90%)
  • 4 stars: 16 (7%)
  • 3 stars: 4 (2%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 1 (0%)
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Anonymous

Good value string, bites the ball well and durability is there. Possibly a bit rigid for some.

M
Marko Yanishevsky

Customers like it a lot for its enhanced spin potential and tension retention.

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Albert Cayanan

been using these for years and love them!

A
Anonymous

Durable and amazing on control and spin

A
Anonymous

Excellent string. Feel is great. Good grip on the ball.

R
Roger Mickey

I string a lot of rackets and my customers that use snake bite love it whether I string at 48 or 55. It is very durable and a great string.

T
Tyler Graver

Snake Bite gives tennis players the best of both worlds. Not only is it inexpensive in comparison to the commercial tennis strings, but it also provide extremely solid levels of comfort, power and control. An all-around five star product, as it lasted long and held consistant tension throughout its use.

D
Domenick Barone

I've been stringing rackets now for about 9 years and have primarily used golden set strings.

The high school boys tennis team really like the snake bite strings. Probably because they look good and do bite the ball well. As a stringer I feel that the twisted nature of the hex poly maintains its tension well.

Lately I have been using power cord because it's a softer control string. I really like the feel of these, but may switch to a hybrid with satin to get a little more pop and make it more arm friendly.

It has been great to use and string with golden set, because it helps me to keep my prices down without suffering quality.

Z
Zubair Virjee

Snake bite is the best string I have used! Most reasonably priced strings and provides great durability and amazing feel.

I have used Snake bite for the last 5 years and love it!

R
Ray DelRosario

I absolutely recommend these strings. The high quality, elevated performance, and attractive price point makes the Snake-Bites hard to beat compared to other brands of poly strings. As a stringer, I found these to be a joy to string because of its manageability (the coil memory completely vanishes right out of the package). Performance-wis-e, I found higher levels of control and power, which gave me more confidence to take full cuts at the ball. Golden Set Snake-Bite strings check all of the boxes of what one looks for in a performance poly.

A
Angrith Na

The combination of the snake bite and classic strings is amazing. It is the perfect blend of power, control, and comfort. The best part of Golden Set strings is the price!

V
Vincent Sciola

Great string. I string racquets. More and more people request it. String at low tension. Usually 5 # below the manufactures recommended minimum.

M
Mark Hilborn

I have been using Golden Set Snake Bite for a few years now, and I can't see changing! The spin, tension maintenance, string life, everything. I recommend it all the time, and when I string a racquet for friends, it's always Snake Bite.

10 out of 10 for me!

Mark

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John Delaney

Tried many multi-sided strings over the years. Snakebite had become my favorite and the go-to string for my restringing customers. Great string at a very reasonable price.

John Delaney

Florida

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Eliot Goldsbrough

I’ve been playing with snakebite for a couple of seasons. It’s certainly my favorite string. I feel I get better spin with the hex version.

Your moisture absorbent over-grip is as good as any I’ve tried.

Thanks again

Eliot

M
Murali Chari

This is simply the best string I have tried for the price. This string provides me with high levels of spin and control. With this string I felt like I could swing for the lines. This string really helped my kick serve. The strings were able to bite into the ball and generate massive spin which translated into a high bounce. This string is on par with the more expensive polys such as RPM Blast. I would highly recommend this string to anyone with fast strokes looking for more spin and control.

O
Oscar Lemos

Golden Set Team, thank you so much for such good and fast service.

I been order from Golden Set different kind of strings and the Combos between Snake Bite, Power Cord and Hex-Poly combined with Synthetic Gut and Classic for Hybrid are excellent. I been stringing for 25 years and I work with coaches and players for National level and they love those combination of Hybrid from. Thank you Golden Set for such good quality of strings and prices value; Bye bye Luxilon, bye bye RPM and bye bye to many others strings that sponsor big players and consumers pay for it, it is not the case of Golden Set!

DEUCE4040

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Mark Hilborn

I started using Snake Bite black 17g about a year ago, and recommend it to everyone. I find it has great spin, tension maintenance and durability. And softer than RPM Blast. 5 stars!

N
Nabil Roumy

Golden Set tennis is a great company to deal with...great product specially the snake bite.

Will continue to purchase the products.

Bill

P
Paul Nguyen

I was referred by one of my tennis partners to try the Snake-bite string and I was surprised how durable it is and of course the extra spin potential from the string cross section pattern. I also like the golden set overgrip because of its particularly tackiness. Finally, you can’t beat the price of the Golden Set products which is very competitive. I am sold on their products.

V
Vincent Sciola

Love the snakebite 17 guage. String. Use it exclusively now.

C
Cindy Wang

I've been using the Snakebite for the past 3 years; I've replaced the pricey Babolat RPM Blast with the Snakebite. It's my go-to string for its price, durability, and playability. Very happy with my purchase!

K
Kun Cho

I've been using Golden Set Tennis products for almost five years exclusively for myself and my tennis buddies.

I use Power Cord for power it generates, softer feeling and spin for myself.

Recently, I started stringing Snake Bite for the players with a flatter swing with a minimal topspin.

I noticed the players with flat swing usually dump a lot of balls into the net or hit long because of lack of margin for error.

So far, I restrung for about a dozen players with a little bit of low to high swing with the Snake Bite.

Guess what?

All of above players hitting the ball with enough clearance without hitting long because of extra topspin the Snake Bite generates.

I strongly recommend the players with flatter swing pattern, try Snake Bite.

Thanks,

Ken

Thank you very much Golden Set!

B
BRUCE DAVIS

Just purchased my fourth spool of snakebite .what a great string, top spin forever, never breaks. great service! product arrives at my door two days after I order it.

Bruce davis

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Lydia Guillory

The snake bite is an incredible and durable string at a great price. I have been using it for about a year now. I could never hit with topspin until I started using this great string. I would highly recommend this string.

O
Oscar Lemos

I am really happy with the Golden Set strings and also my over 1300 players in a year.

Lots of my players using the great combination of Snake Bite, Power Cord or Hex-Poly on the main and Synthetic Gut Multifilament on cross.

Your string give to them amazing performance.

Between you and I, some players on 5.0 NRTP stop using Luxilon and RPM Blast and switch to Snake Bite.

On of my machines is an Gamma 9900 ELS and doing a perfect work with the Golden Set strings.

I very high recommend using the Golden Set materials, extremely high performance on the court

My name is Oscar, from DEUCE4040, with 25 years experience.

Thank you,

Oscar

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Arfan Arif

Golden Set string is comparable to the name brand. I am referring to the poly and multi filaments.

The tacky grip is in between the name brand tack and name brand water absorbing grips. The Golden Set tacky grip is closer to the name brand tacky grips. I am happy where I am now. Thanks Golden Set !

Arfan Arif

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DANIEL JONES

Excellent durability, and more spin generation then any other string I have tried. My go to string for many years now.

S
Stephane Laurin

Hi!

I really do appreciate your strings that I have bought, already twice!

They are fun to play with, and they don't break too fast compared to a bunch of other companies' strings I have tried before.

All the best!

Steph

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Gary Phoebus

I am a 70 year old, that retired 4 years ago and started playing USTA matches for the first time in my life. I knew that I had to create spin, to make up for my very late start, and I also wanted it to be as economical as possible. Your string has helped me accomplish both needs and helped me win state championships (clay doubles) on the 55 and 70 teams i am on.

Thanks,

Gary

S
Susan Danac-mith

I am happy with Golden string and find it comparable to many better strings. The velvet string is simular to technifibre NRG or Gamma tnt which are 2 of my favorite strings. I have many friends who like the durability and spin of snakebite 17g.

Susan

  • 5 stars: 197 (90%)
  • 4 stars: 16 (7%)
  • 3 stars: 4 (2%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 1 (0%)
A
Anonymous

Good value string, bites the ball well and durability is there. Possibly a bit rigid for some.

M
Marko Yanishevsky

Customers like it a lot for its enhanced spin potential and tension retention.

A
Albert Cayanan

been using these for years and love them!

A
Anonymous

Durable and amazing on control and spin

A
Anonymous

Excellent string. Feel is great. Good grip on the ball.

R
Roger Mickey

I string a lot of rackets and my customers that use snake bite love it whether I string at 48 or 55. It is very durable and a great string.

T
Tyler Graver

Snake Bite gives tennis players the best of both worlds. Not only is it inexpensive in comparison to the commercial tennis strings, but it also provide extremely solid levels of comfort, power and control. An all-around five star product, as it lasted long and held consistant tension throughout its use.

D
Domenick Barone

I've been stringing rackets now for about 9 years and have primarily used golden set strings.

The high school boys tennis team really like the snake bite strings. Probably because they look good and do bite the ball well. As a stringer I feel that the twisted nature of the hex poly maintains its tension well.

Lately I have been using power cord because it's a softer control string. I really like the feel of these, but may switch to a hybrid with satin to get a little more pop and make it more arm friendly.

It has been great to use and string with golden set, because it helps me to keep my prices down without suffering quality.

Z
Zubair Virjee

Snake bite is the best string I have used! Most reasonably priced strings and provides great durability and amazing feel.

I have used Snake bite for the last 5 years and love it!

R
Ray DelRosario

I absolutely recommend these strings. The high quality, elevated performance, and attractive price point makes the Snake-Bites hard to beat compared to other brands of poly strings. As a stringer, I found these to be a joy to string because of its manageability (the coil memory completely vanishes right out of the package). Performance-wis-e, I found higher levels of control and power, which gave me more confidence to take full cuts at the ball. Golden Set Snake-Bite strings check all of the boxes of what one looks for in a performance poly.

A
Angrith Na

The combination of the snake bite and classic strings is amazing. It is the perfect blend of power, control, and comfort. The best part of Golden Set strings is the price!

V
Vincent Sciola

Great string. I string racquets. More and more people request it. String at low tension. Usually 5 # below the manufactures recommended minimum.

M
Mark Hilborn

I have been using Golden Set Snake Bite for a few years now, and I can't see changing! The spin, tension maintenance, string life, everything. I recommend it all the time, and when I string a racquet for friends, it's always Snake Bite.

10 out of 10 for me!

Mark

J
John Delaney

Tried many multi-sided strings over the years. Snakebite had become my favorite and the go-to string for my restringing customers. Great string at a very reasonable price.

John Delaney

Florida

E
Eliot Goldsbrough

I’ve been playing with snakebite for a couple of seasons. It’s certainly my favorite string. I feel I get better spin with the hex version.

Your moisture absorbent over-grip is as good as any I’ve tried.

Thanks again

Eliot

M
Murali Chari

This is simply the best string I have tried for the price. This string provides me with high levels of spin and control. With this string I felt like I could swing for the lines. This string really helped my kick serve. The strings were able to bite into the ball and generate massive spin which translated into a high bounce. This string is on par with the more expensive polys such as RPM Blast. I would highly recommend this string to anyone with fast strokes looking for more spin and control.

O
Oscar Lemos

Golden Set Team, thank you so much for such good and fast service.

I been order from Golden Set different kind of strings and the Combos between Snake Bite, Power Cord and Hex-Poly combined with Synthetic Gut and Classic for Hybrid are excellent. I been stringing for 25 years and I work with coaches and players for National level and they love those combination of Hybrid from. Thank you Golden Set for such good quality of strings and prices value; Bye bye Luxilon, bye bye RPM and bye bye to many others strings that sponsor big players and consumers pay for it, it is not the case of Golden Set!

DEUCE4040

M
Mark Hilborn

I started using Snake Bite black 17g about a year ago, and recommend it to everyone. I find it has great spin, tension maintenance and durability. And softer than RPM Blast. 5 stars!

N
Nabil Roumy

Golden Set tennis is a great company to deal with...great product specially the snake bite.

Will continue to purchase the products.

Bill

P
Paul Nguyen

I was referred by one of my tennis partners to try the Snake-bite string and I was surprised how durable it is and of course the extra spin potential from the string cross section pattern. I also like the golden set overgrip because of its particularly tackiness. Finally, you can’t beat the price of the Golden Set products which is very competitive. I am sold on their products.

V
Vincent Sciola

Love the snakebite 17 guage. String. Use it exclusively now.

C
Cindy Wang

I've been using the Snakebite for the past 3 years; I've replaced the pricey Babolat RPM Blast with the Snakebite. It's my go-to string for its price, durability, and playability. Very happy with my purchase!

K
Kun Cho

I've been using Golden Set Tennis products for almost five years exclusively for myself and my tennis buddies.

I use Power Cord for power it generates, softer feeling and spin for myself.

Recently, I started stringing Snake Bite for the players with a flatter swing with a minimal topspin.

I noticed the players with flat swing usually dump a lot of balls into the net or hit long because of lack of margin for error.

So far, I restrung for about a dozen players with a little bit of low to high swing with the Snake Bite.

Guess what?

All of above players hitting the ball with enough clearance without hitting long because of extra topspin the Snake Bite generates.

I strongly recommend the players with flatter swing pattern, try Snake Bite.

Thanks,

Ken

Thank you very much Golden Set!

B
BRUCE DAVIS

Just purchased my fourth spool of snakebite .what a great string, top spin forever, never breaks. great service! product arrives at my door two days after I order it.

Bruce davis

L
Lydia Guillory

The snake bite is an incredible and durable string at a great price. I have been using it for about a year now. I could never hit with topspin until I started using this great string. I would highly recommend this string.

O
Oscar Lemos

I am really happy with the Golden Set strings and also my over 1300 players in a year.

Lots of my players using the great combination of Snake Bite, Power Cord or Hex-Poly on the main and Synthetic Gut Multifilament on cross.

Your string give to them amazing performance.

Between you and I, some players on 5.0 NRTP stop using Luxilon and RPM Blast and switch to Snake Bite.

On of my machines is an Gamma 9900 ELS and doing a perfect work with the Golden Set strings.

I very high recommend using the Golden Set materials, extremely high performance on the court

My name is Oscar, from DEUCE4040, with 25 years experience.

Thank you,

Oscar

A
Arfan Arif

Golden Set string is comparable to the name brand. I am referring to the poly and multi filaments.

The tacky grip is in between the name brand tack and name brand water absorbing grips. The Golden Set tacky grip is closer to the name brand tacky grips. I am happy where I am now. Thanks Golden Set !

Arfan Arif

D
DANIEL JONES

Excellent durability, and more spin generation then any other string I have tried. My go to string for many years now.

S
Stephane Laurin

Hi!

I really do appreciate your strings that I have bought, already twice!

They are fun to play with, and they don't break too fast compared to a bunch of other companies' strings I have tried before.

All the best!

Steph

G
Gary Phoebus

I am a 70 year old, that retired 4 years ago and started playing USTA matches for the first time in my life. I knew that I had to create spin, to make up for my very late start, and I also wanted it to be as economical as possible. Your string has helped me accomplish both needs and helped me win state championships (clay doubles) on the 55 and 70 teams i am on.

Thanks,

Gary

S
Susan Danac-mith

I am happy with Golden string and find it comparable to many better strings. The velvet string is simular to technifibre NRG or Gamma tnt which are 2 of my favorite strings. I have many friends who like the durability and spin of snakebite 17g.

Susan