How do you see the racquet industry moving forward?

[Crocodile]

Right now I think there is an opportunity for a small but vibrant brand to develop positive relationships between players, coaches, retailers, ex pros and good juniors to market good racquets at sharp prices. Offering good prices to good juniors who need say 4 racquets, bags, grips, shoes and clothes could be a game changer. Innovating fence screens and scoreboards in clubs and branding on local competitions and sponsoring local community events could be a game changer.
Comfortable racquets that come in 5 colour options where when you collect all colours you get a bonus special colour way at a discount for showing loyalty. It’s all about getting passionate and enthusiastic with tennis that must be the way forward and into the future.

 

[geubes]

likely a different material for grommets, like recycled plastics.

or even recycled strings to grommets, that would be a good use of Poly.

String waste and Tennis ball waste is massive. And Wimbledon selling the balls used is not recycling, its paying for someone else to dispose of it later

 

[McGradey]

likely a different material for grommets, like recycled plastics.

or even recycled strings to grommets, that would be a good use of Poly.

String waste and Tennis ball waste is massive. And Wimbledon selling the balls used is not recycling, its paying for someone else to dispose of it later

Yup. Tennis ball waste is crazy. The Sustaina-ball would be a big innovation.

 

[Crocodile]

Regarding used balls, I'm surprised that pressurised ball tubes haven't had any meaningful adoption among clubs and players.

I haven’t had too much experience with the ball tubes except from second hand information from a customer I know who does this. He actually designed his own but what we noticed is that it tended to make the bells go hard and then they didn’t play well. Eventually he bought my used tennis balls instead.