Have tried natural gut in the early 90's Bowbrand follow Ivan Lendl, natural gut is the ULTIMATE feeling, playability, retaining tension, but the strings frays easily, and though string is frayed, the tension still hold true to form, if in this lifetime you want to try natural gut, try at a higher tension, COZ Natural gut is DAMN friggin powerful..... if you use on a Babolat racket, powerful racket + powerful string= popeye tennis player.

I am no sifu lah, Ben has a opinion and he is entitled to it, I certainly can understand his viewpoint.
If you hybrid, just use a normal synthetic gut or multi , you can go poly provided they don't have any special shape, if they are 'round' feel free to use poly.

Stringers will always recommend you 'hybrid' thats to save you money, but hehehehe if money is no object you owe to yourself to try FULL gut at least once in your lifetime.

There is a reason why no company in the world can replicate natural gut.

My last string bed was full natural gut. If you dont have arm problems, you dont need to use natural gut. The price nowadays are too expensive. 1 set alone easily can buy a whole reel of synthetic (17-18 racquets) or 6 sets of poly. And when somehow if u break it in 4 hours... damnnn... $300 masuk longkang. But if u wanna try it just for the sake of a lifetime experience, go ahead... just be sure u get a stringer with good experience. U dont want a bangla stringer who might friction burn & notch up your string during stringing... do some research on natural gut stringing & check on pre-stretching if the string are required for it. Mine was strung by a USTA certified stringer

  Now a bit about natural gut.. i would bet my life that there will never be any man made string that can ever surpass the supreme feel, resiliency & playability of natural gut. The day that man invented a string that can match natural gut would be the darkest day in the world of tennis as natural gut is considered holy. The amount of praises that I have for natural gut is simply too much. Its like a non aging virgin's bosom, ever so fresh, bouncy & caring & comforting your arm like a mother to a child... the day my natural gut broke, i stared at it in silence, my eyes wet.... it remained the way it was from the 1st day till it's final moment... undivided love, 100% to the very end.

  If you wanna try natural gut, just for the sake of trying it, u should never hybrid it with anything. How can u mix something so marvelous with some pariah poly? I'm sorry but I'm a huge anti polyester person... i dont give a damn how special or how well any poly plays, who ever invented polyester string should be shot to death. Go ahead & try natural gut... you will remember it always & cherish the moment