Stringing prices for pro's....

[saram]

May be the wrong place for this thread, but it is about general pro players in a way. Just wondering if you know what the pro's are paying per stick to have it strung at the major tournaments? I am curious as to if they have to pay individually for each stick strung when completed or maybe if they pay a general price for continual stringing of their sticks?

Seems as well, that it would be a burden to have to open the wallet several times a day to get sticks strung. Maybe they just run a tab and pay it at the end of the tournament?

 

[ford oliver]

Stringing at Pro Tournaments

Generally, those players using the tournament stringer on-site will give their credit card and run a tab for the week. Ocassionally, the tournament stringer will have an arrangement with the accounting staff for the tournament to deduct the stringing charges from the player's prize money. If a player elects not to submit his credit card, a smart stringer will not hand over the freshly strung racket (or run it out to the court where the player is playing) without getting payment first.
As for the price of stringing labor, at the smaller ATP events the players may pay $20 a racket; the Masters Series and Slams...$25.

 

[TheShaun]

yup, $25 that's what i heard. as for how the payment works, not sure.

 

[Lindsay]

And most of the top players use a personal service like Priority 1 which covers all of their stringing needs for the year. There is a flat fee which is SKY HIGH but it guarantees the same stringer, the same machine for every racquet, every time.

 

[Fee]

Thanks Ford.

Lindsay, how does Priority 1 guarantee the same stringer and same machine for a player for an entire year? Do they travel to every tournament along with the players?

 

[sureshs]

Thanks Ford.

Lindsay, how does Priority 1 guarantee the same stringer and same machine for a player for an entire year? Do they travel to every tournament along with the players?

Check this out for the answers:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/01/business/tennis.php

 

[tennispro11]

Thanks Sureshs. Good article.

 

[sureshs]

Thanks Sureshs. Good article.

Yup, how many people knew about Federer's 3 tensions and that he decides on them late at nite?

 

[tennispro11]

Yup, how many people knew about Federer's 3 tensions and that he decides on them late at nite?

I knew that he chose between the three but not that late at night. Pretty interesting. I haven't decided if I would like to string for the pro's or not. I think I probably would. All the cool places you would see.

 

[Fee]

"Ferguson and Yu joined together in 2001 and, as a little company called Priority One, they customize rackets for many players and string for nine: Federer, Safin, Henman, Novak Djokovic, Fernando González, Andy Murray, Marcos Baghdatis, Lleyton Hewitt and Mardy Fish."

I can see how this works at the big events during the year (13 total), but there are only two of these guys, so does that mean they split up during the optional tournaments when the players are in different cities? (say the week of Dubai and Las Vegas or this week coming up with Vienna/Stockholm/Moscow). Perhaps Lindsay has more information about how they guarantee the same stringer and same machine every time. That just seems logistically impossible to me.

 

[diggler]

http://www.top

servetennis.com/catalogue/c117


Aussie Open stringers

I've had to break up the link because it goes spastic for some reason.

 

[OrangeOne]

http://www.top

servetennis.com/catalogue/c117


Aussie Open stringers

I've had to break up the link because it goes spastic for some reason.

TW consider any 'online sales store' a competitor, and they don't allow people to post competitor links, hence the *****ing out of the above link.

As for P1 guaranteeing the same machine and the same stringer, I'm sure I read Ron himself posting on here that they alternate for many of the tournies, esp. those that overlap, so I'm not sure about the 'same stringer' claim in this thread. He was specifically referring to W, and he said something like "we don't decide in advance who does Federer's frames". As for machines, if they have 2 identical machines, identically maintained and calibrated, i'm sure that's enough to guarantee consistent results machine-wise.

I believe he also said / i've also read, that P1 'only' goes to the slams and masters series tournies, and that their clients use the tourny stringers at other events...

 

[Fee]

Thanks for the clarification OO, that makes much more sense.

 

[Eviscerator]

Check this out for the answers:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/01/business/tennis.php

Interesting

 

[BreakPoint]

This recent article states pros pay $25 per racquet strung:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118791933825807508.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Excerpt:

"During the Open, Mr. Prokes's team will string 3,000 rackets at a cost to each player of $25 each, plus the cost of the string."

 

[er00si]

TW keeps an article on Priority 1.

http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/priority1.html

TW consider any 'online sales store' a competitor, and they don't allow people to post competitor links, hence the *****ing out of the above link.

As for P1 guaranteeing the same machine and the same stringer, I'm sure I read Ron himself posting on here that they alternate for many of the tournies, esp. those that overlap, so I'm not sure about the 'same stringer' claim in this thread. He was specifically referring to W, and he said something like "we don't decide in advance who does Federer's frames". As for machines, if they have 2 identical machines, identically maintained and calibrated, i'm sure that's enough to guarantee consistent results machine-wise.

I believe he also said / i've also read, that P1 'only' goes to the slams and masters series tournies, and that their clients use the tourny stringers at other events...

 

[cmb]

20-25 dollars each. At a pro tournament in the Netherlands last year I saw one of the qualifiers stringing his own racket on a portable stringer. He said it was 25 euros per racket, too expensive for him.