Your level and style of play will dictate how often you need to restring your tennis racket. Tennis professionals or elite college players will restring more often than junior competitors or social players. They play and practice a lot, and hit furious topspin with tremendous power for long periods. Juniors and social players tend to practice and play less with a lot less vigour.
Restringing for most juniors and social players occurs when they break a string. Neglected strings wear away with each contact and eventually become so thin they break on contact with the ball.
For the professionals and elite college players the main reason for a restrings lies in their quest for perfection and need for consistent performance. Due to their construction, tennis strings lose their tension overtime. This loss of tension tends to reduce the stiffness of your racket string bed and inadvertently increase its power. An increase in power may lead to more errors. Not what your average or top professional wants or needs when doing battle.
A Tennis professional or elite college player, will usually have their rackets restrung before every practice and match. Many professionals will have as many as twenty rackets freshly strung ready for practice and play. Venus Williams of the USA has been known to have up to 10 freshly strung rackets, available for practice alone.
Restrings run between $20 and $90 depending on the quality and type. Tennis pros will usually have a string sponsor, but for social players and juniors the restringing can be an expensive affair. A social player or the parent of a junior must weigh up the consistency benefits of a freshly strung racket against the cost.
Yes, it would be nice to restring your rackets before each match or practice. Your game would no doubt improve, but frequency of restringing will be determined by the size and depth of your wallet.
Consider buying your own stringing machine and string if you want a more consistent response from your racket. Experimenting with different strings as you learn to become a competent stringer can be a bit of fun.
Learn more about racket strings. Stop by Jeremy Edwards’s site where you can find more about Tennis.
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