What do you do with old tennis racquets?

[mctennis]

What do you do with old tennis racquets? The ones you really can't sell here or flea bay. Ones that are scratched or beaten up beyond really feeling right to ask someone to buy them. Or perhaps way to old that if you did post them you'd get zero offers on them no matter how low you price them. Just wondering what everyone does with their old stuff.

 

[npadreman]

mine sit in a pile and i offer them to kids if they're getting in to tennis

 

[TheBoom]

Keep em and if you get the urge hit with them i have a pro kinnex bronze ace from like early nineties. I don't know if it was worth anything but its on par with any racket i've tried. I'd use it but i only have one

 

[pshulam]

i have a pro kinnex bronze ace from like early nineties. I don't know if it was worth anything but its on par with any racket i've tried.

It isn't worth much (less than $10) but it is just as good, albeit heavy, as any other player racquet, if not better.

 

[pshulam]

What do you do with old tennis racquets? The ones you really can't sell here or flea bay. Ones that are scratched or beaten up beyond really feeling right to ask someone to buy them. Or perhaps way to old that if you did post them you'd get zero offers on them no matter how low you price them. Just wondering what everyone does with their old stuff.

You can always denote them to Goodwill or some other charity organizations.

 

[TheBoom]

Yeah my mom bought it forever ago. I strung it up and its better than most modern rackets which is almost embarassing

 

[TennisMaverick]

Donate them to your local JTL or CTA in your area. Just go to usta.com to find them in your section.

 

[TimothyO]

My MRT reconditions racquets for an Atlanta tennis program serving disadvantaged youths, so we hand them over to him. He puts in new string and also replaces grips as needed (yes, he's that generous).

 

[movdqa]

I just gave one to another player yesterday. I bought it in the 1980s and he uses them.

 

[Huppe]

All good suggestions here . . .

This summer some locals here started a program where they donated racquets (and used balls, which they replenished) to the local library and kids could check out racquets and get a few balls with their library cards for free (didn't have to return balls) like books.

Wish I had thought of it first. You could donate them to the library, start the same type program, if there isn't a program for kids like mentioned about in your area or just wanted to spread the love for the game to kids who might not otherwise try it.