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How Often Should I Restring My Tennis Racket

Commonly, your level and style of play effects your need to restring your tennis racket. If you practice and play with the same extraordinary spin a...

 

Commonly, your level and style of play effects your need to restring your tennis racket. If you practice and play with the same extraordinary spin and power as the elite college players or tennis professionals, you will restring more often than regular juniors or social players. Prevalence of your practice and competition play will also effect the frequency of your restringing.

Breaking a string is the number one reason why most juniors and social players get a restring. Their stings wear thin overtime and without much warning they snap when least expected.

For the professionals and elite college players the main reason for a restrings lies in their quest for perfection and need for consistent performance. Due to their construction, tennis strings lose their tension overtime. This loss of tension tends to reduce the stiffness of your racket string bed and inadvertently increase its power. An increase in power may lead to more errors. Not what your average or top professional wants or needs when doing battle.

A Tennis professional or elite college player, will usually have their rackets restrung before every practice and match. Many professionals will have as many as twenty rackets freshly strung ready for practice and play. Venus Williams of the USA has been known to have up to 10 freshly strung rackets, available for practice alone.

Restringing your rackets can be a very expensive affair. Nylon strings will cost from $25 a set, but some special strings can be as much as $90. This cost prohibits most social or junior players restringing frequently. Professionals and college players will generally have a string sponsor who picks up their bill.

If you can afford to restring before every match or practice, your game will benefit and most probably improve. However for most tennis enthusiasts, restringing will be limited to as often as can be afforded or on breaking a string.

Consider buying your own stringing machine and string if you want a more consistent response from your racket. Experimenting with different strings as you learn to become a competent stringer can be a bit of fun.

Looking to find the best info on how to string your own rackets, then visit www.opencourt.com.au to find the best equipment for home stringing.