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Good Practice

One small piece of advice I was given when I first started stringing was to always string racquets in the same way. On “one-piece” jobs it is very apparent, not so much on two piece! However, whenever I string a racquet, I always mount the racquet the same way, with the logo on the butt cap upright.

I feel this is a good practice in and of itself, but some manufacturers (such as Yonex) stipulate that the logo on the butt cap be pointing up when the stencil is applied.

5 sets of Tecnifibre X-One Biphase 1.30 to:

Andy Gudgeon, Portsmouth Hants, England

Editor’s note: Mounting racquets the same way each time sounds like a good idea, but on some racquets, this is going to mean that the logo on the butt cap is down. There are “directional” racquets — racquets that have a “short side” and a “long side” — where the markings for the short side can more easily be seen if the racquet is mounted a certain way. Also, if you are used to having your short side on the right (for example), and mounting the racquet with the butt-cap logo facing up puts the short side on the left, you may find it easier to mount the racquet so that the short side is the way you prefer it, rather than focusing on the butt-cap logo. Because consistency is so important in stringing, however, once you find a way that works for you, stick with it.

From the August 2006 issue
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