There’s nothing more rewarding than learning how to string your own tennis racquet. It can be exciting, frustrating, and down right fun! I know, how can stringing your own tennis racquet be fun? Well for starters, you’re learning something new about tennis, saving money, and really taking control of your own equipment.You can also start stringing your friend’s tennis racquets and charge them a few bucks here and there if you really wanted to.

With your own tennis stringing machine will be able to determine the exact tension you want, you can get your tennis racket strung when you want and you can get it back the same day. Trust me, before I had a stringing machine, I would take it to my local pro shop and I would drop off my racquet with the specs I wanted and I would have to wait until the next day to get it back (there have been times where it’s been longer than a day)! With your own tennis racquet stringing machine, you can learn to string a tennis racket in about 2o-30 minutes, yep that’s it!

Look at purchasing a tennis stringing machine as an investment. Seriously, yes, the machines can be expensive, but if you calculate the average cost of tennis strings – we’ll use poly as an example – the labor costs and gas you’re looking at around $35 to $40 a string job! Now multiply that by the number of times you restring per week, month, and year; yeah, that’s a lot of money! The great thing about the stringing machines is that they begin to pay for themselves in about 6 months for the average 4.0 tennis player.

Tennis stringing machines can vary in price, from your entry level machine starting at around $160, all the way up to the professional level stringing machines at $3800 and everything in between.

There are quite a few different brands of tennis stringing machines, but I recommend either the Gamma brand of machine or Prince stringing machines. Either one is a great machine, a good place to start. Each stringing machine comes with a detailed instruction manual to help get you started, free tools, and a few free different sets of tennis string!