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Missing Digest listing?

Q: A stringing customer of mine gave me a racquet to string that he purchased during a recent visit to Japan. It was strung there, but incorrectly. After cutting out the string I referred to my Stringers Digest. Though the racquet was listed, the listing didn’t match the racquet I had.

Could the book be wrong, or could this racquet be made to different specs for the Japanese market? Could this racquet be mislabeled?

A: Manufacturers do sometimes make slightly different versions for different markets, and very rarely you might find a mislabeled racquet. However in this case, the listing in the Digest didn’t match your customer’s racquet because we went to press before we learned the stringing instructions, so we only showed the known (at that time) variant of that frame. Once we confirmed the stringing instructions for the new version, we made it available on-line for USRSA members at www.usrsa.com. The Digest on-line also has many older racquets that no longer appear in the semi-annual books we send out.

USRSA members who find themselves facing a new racquet that is neither in the printed Digest nor in the Digest On-line are invited to call technical support at 760-536-1177. Our contacts with the various manufacturers are often able to provide the stringing instructions, even before the frame has been released to the public.

From the July 2007 issue
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