April 2009 Monthly Archive

Sharing Your Successes

February was a busy time on Hilton Head Island. This tennis hotbed became even hotter when the USTA’s Community Tennis Development Workshop was held there, and immediately after that, the PTR International Tennis Symposium. If you’ve read this column... (Click here to read more...)

Industry News

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

When to Fire a Client

Sometimes, a difficult customer just isn’t worth keeping. How do you know when it’s time to show him the door? (Click here to read more...)

Racquet Selection Map 2009

Our exclusive Racquet Selection Map enables you to help your customers choose the perfect racquet for them quickly and easily, with the features and performance they want. (Click here to read more...)

Playtest: Wilson Hollow Core 16

Hollow Core is an innovative nylon multifilament from Wilson. Hollow Core is the first string that, instead of a round solid core, has an air-filled, hollow triangle-shaped core. According to Wilson, this hollow core is what gives the string... (Click here to read more...)

Hitting a Winner Every Time

A longtime community tennis advocate says CTAs are not only good for tennis, but good for your business. (Click here to read more...)

Increasing tension for the tie-off

Q: What is the USRSA position on increasing the tension of the tie offs? I couldn’t find anything about this in the Stringer’s Digest. Tim Strawn at Grand Slam Stringers told me there are no rules concerning this, as long... (Click here to read more...)

Calibrating the Ektelon H

Q: I’ve “inherited” an old Ektelon H stringing machine, but not the manual. How do you calibrate it?... (Click here to read more...)

Czech Tension machines

Q: Do you know the fate of the stringing machines manufactured in the Czech Republic? (They had big yellow knobs in the side mounts.) A few years ago they were distributed and sold in the U.S. at low prices, but... (Click here to read more...)

Boosting customization

Q: After reading “Racquet Customization” (RSI, November 2007) I purchased several pieces of diagnostic equipment including a Prince PTC in the hopes of doing more customization. While I acknowledge that players are as you say “ambivalent toward the concept of... (Click here to read more...)

Ruffled by ridges

Have you ever been frustrated by the ridges racquet manufacturers put on the outside of grommet strips to “help” guide the strings? I wish they would stop helping, but knowing they don’t listen, I found a way to get around... (Click here to read more...)

They still make ’em like they used to

I have a regular customer that is a chronic string breaker. I put him in an aramid/synthetic hybrid for durability. This proved too harsh on his wrist, so we tried a poly/synthetic hybrid. This was too harsh on his wrist... (Click here to read more...)

Easier ‘easy ATW stringing’

After reading Liam Nolan’s “Easy ATW Stringing” tip in the May 2007 issue of RSI, I adopted it is my go-to technique for stringing any one-piece racquet where the mains end at the throat. The only problem I had with... (Click here to read more...)

Racquet preparation

The tip you ran about preparing racquets the night before got me thinking, as we sometimes do this when the workload gets high, and when we do stringing for local tournaments, we have one person who strings, while another person... (Click here to read more...)