Racket Maintenance, Customisation and Matching
Keeping your tennis racket grip, grommets and bumper guards maintained is important and often overlooked by many. Grommets and bumpers will protect your new strings from the frame, ground and walls. A good grip in the correct size will enable you to handle your racket with no slipping, over gripping or arm pain. If you want to adjust the weight, Swingweight or balance of your racket no problem, it can all be achieved. Matching frames is also an option, they don't necessarily come out of the factory exactly the same!
Please contact me for information, advice and costs of these services
Customisation
If you’re a serious player, you may be looking to customize your tennis racket to enhance your performance.
These days, the vast majority of professional players on tour play with customized rackets. By adjusting the weight, balance, and similar characteristics, they’re able to complement their style of play.
Even if you only play tennis casually, you can still benefit by making a few tweaks to your racquet.
I use the Prince Precision Tuning Center to accurately calculate the weight, swingweight and balance of a racket.
The cost of this service varies depending on the work involved but is generally £15 – £25 per racket. Please contact me for a price.
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Some frequent changes include:
Changing the overall racket weight
Moving the racket’s balance point
Adjusting the swingweight
Increasing the rackets stability
Adjusting the grip size
Matching
Nearly all of the rackets that are available today are manufactured to within a certain tolerance against the specification printed on the racket. Needless to say, some produce to smaller tolerances than others.
The upshot of that is that you could buy two or three seemingly identical rackets in terms of brand, model and headsize but they could all be quite different in terms of their weight, balance and swingweight and as such play differently. This is not what you want if you break a string during an important match!
Have you ever found your second or third racket to feel or play differently when you’ve been forced to change it during a match? Do you have a “favourite” in your bag that you always lean to for crucial matches? Chances are that this is caused by these differences.
However, your rackets can be professionally matched to each other or customised to your requirements.
I use the Prince Precision Tuning Center to accurately calculate the weight, swingweight and balance of a racket.
The cost of this service varies depending on the work involved but generally £20 – £25 per racket. Please contact me for a price.
Maintenance
A range of Grips and overgrips are available for all racket sports
Bumper and Grommet replacement
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Please note – Bumpers and grommets are ordered for your specific racket. Please allow extra time for delivery.
I will do my upmost to find a bumper for your racket, but old and rare rackets are not always possible.
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