June 2008 Monthly Archive

Boosting Your Online Game

This magazine is all about helping your business. Whether a pro shop, facility, teaching pro, coach, court builder, CTA, manufacturer—we want you to succeed. We want more people playing tennis, we want to see full courts and more being... (Click here to read more...)

Letters: Positive Signs

Dear Sirs, I thoroughly appreciated the “Tennis’ Upward Swing” articles in the May issue on the growth in the tennis industry. I keep articles like this for our Professional Tennis Management classes here at Methodist University. In fact, the... (Click here to read more...)

Letters: Stringing Ability Pays Off

Dear Sirs, It turns out my stringing talents have paid off! Being on a Navy ship in the ocean, we don't really go around storms, we just tie everything down and trudge on through. Well, if you have ever... (Click here to read more...)

Letters: ‘Shallow’ Luxilon Story Deserved Better

Dear Sirs, I found Joel Drucker's article about Luxilon string to be disappointingly shallow. Drucker writes as though he has no personal experience either using Luxilon or stringing for players who do. He doesn't even spell "Fluoro" correctly. Right... (Click here to read more...)

Industry News

Information to help you run your business. (Click here to read more...)

Happy Returns

With experts in racquet customization and stringing on hand, the GSS Stringers Symposium can be a key investment in your business. (Click here to read more...)

Retain Control of your Website

Your job as a business owner is to ensure that you have a duplicate set of keys to your online kingdom. (Click here to read more...)

Clickety-Split!

When players sign up online, you’re providing the ultimate in customer service and giving your business a boost, too. (Click here to read more...)

New Generation

Whether you run a tennis shop, facility or program, interactive elements can help market your brand. (Click here to read more...)

Spreading the tennis bug

For one club, the viral nature of Facebook has been a boon to their business. (Click here to read more...)

Web write-offs

Right now, there are no formal tax rules on how to treat web expenses. But there are ways you can benefit. (Click here to read more...)

Playtest: Pro Supex Matrix Hybrid

Pro Supex Matrix Hybrid is composed of two strings that are designed to offer the best in both durability and playability: Pro Supex Big Ace (mains) and Pro Supex Maxim Touch (crosses). Big Ace is a German-made monofilament co-polymer... (Click here to read more...)

Off Message

A tennis insider says the industry needs to forget about comparisons to the past, embrace the fact that we’re a niche sport, and promote the wonderful assets of the game. (Click here to read more...)