Tennis_dude101
Professional
I met a fellow tennis player at work who play's Section 1 night tennis. He in conversation he told me that he gets his racquets restrung monthly at a well known Pro Shop here in Melbourne(they use Wilson Baiardo stringing machines). They are charging him around $37 per restring for a full bed of 17 gauge Synthetic Gut(From the look of it I think it is a white Wilson Synthetic gut but I'm not sure as it had no printing on it).
Always up for a challenge, I offered to restring one of his racquets using my Pro Stringer as I was sure I could do a satisfactory restring for him at a better price. To do this I bought a reel of Gosen Sheep OG Micro 17 Gauge Syn gut for $91 as I didn't have any 17G Syn gut on hand. This works out to about $5 of string per racquet, thus with my usual labour fee I could change him $25 per restring saving him $12.
The pro shop were stringing his racquet 1 piece at around 25-26kg(he wasn't sure of the exact tension), as I prefer the simplicity of 2 piece stringing I stuck it that and strung his racquet yesterday at 26kg. I used Parnell knots for the mains and a Babolat starting knot/Parnell knot for the crosses. I took my time to make sure I did a good job, hopefully he will like it.
I'm now awaiting his feedback regarding the tension/string combination...
Always up for a challenge, I offered to restring one of his racquets using my Pro Stringer as I was sure I could do a satisfactory restring for him at a better price. To do this I bought a reel of Gosen Sheep OG Micro 17 Gauge Syn gut for $91 as I didn't have any 17G Syn gut on hand. This works out to about $5 of string per racquet, thus with my usual labour fee I could change him $25 per restring saving him $12.
The pro shop were stringing his racquet 1 piece at around 25-26kg(he wasn't sure of the exact tension), as I prefer the simplicity of 2 piece stringing I stuck it that and strung his racquet yesterday at 26kg. I used Parnell knots for the mains and a Babolat starting knot/Parnell knot for the crosses. I took my time to make sure I did a good job, hopefully he will like it.
I'm now awaiting his feedback regarding the tension/string combination...
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