Racket Demo Program in the United Kingdom

tennis-head

New User
Hello TW Europe,

I am from the United Kingdom and have been looking to change rackets, so naturally I fell upon Tennis Warehouse, the reviews and the demo program which sounds perfect. I was both surprised and disappointed to see that the demo program is not available in the UK.
  1. Are there any plans to open up the demo program in the UK?
  2. Do you have any recommendations of places within the UK where I could demo rackets instead?
  3. Out of interest - is Brexit the reason it is not available here?
Thanks,
Stuart
 

TW Staff

Administrator
Hi Stuart,

Thank you for your patience. I did hear back from Tennis Warehouse Europe. At this time, there are no plans to expand the demo program to the UK. There are a couple reason behind it including shipping prices and complicated customs procedures. Unfortunately, they don't have any recommendations within the UK to demo.

Thanks,
Brittany, TW
 

t_pac

Professional
They used to run the demo program here in the UK, pretty sure Brexit put a stop to it.

Best (only?) option would be to find a decent brick and mortar tennis shop that offers a demo program (although you're often quite limited on choices as they don't have the capacity to carry as many frames as an online retailer like TW), or sometimes club coaches will be affiliated with a particular manufacturer and will have racquets you can try.

Having said that, there is a significant issue with demos in that strings are at least as important to how a racquet plays, and you don't usually have any control over that with a demo.
 

tennis-head

New User
@tennis-head whereabouts in the UK are you?
Near St. Albans in Hertfordshire. There is a racket shop in Letchworth that does demos and also Tennis Nuts in Northwood. Neither carry Wilson which is frustrating as I was interested in trying the Blade v9. I've committed to a Pure Strike 98 (16x19) now, but my wife is still looking. We might hop on a train to Cambridge and try TopSpin Tennis.
 
Near St. Albans in Hertfordshire. There is a racket shop in Letchworth that does demos and also Tennis Nuts in Northwood. Neither carry Wilson which is frustrating as I was interested in trying the Blade v9. I've committed to a Pure Strike 98 (16x19) now, but my wife is still looking. We might hop on a train to Cambridge and try TopSpin Tennis.
Sent you a message
 
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