Intermediate Tennis Lessons - How tight should tennis racket strings be?
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Now, we've talked about, prior to this, we talked about equipment. Your equipment for
intermediate player isn't going to vary that much. If you've chose a good racket to begin
with its going to carry you through. The only thing that might differ might be your string
tension. A lot of the better rackets come without strings. You can get them strung to
your style of play. I remember back in the old days, John McEnroe used to string his
racket at like fifty pounds, which was pretty loose. He played a lot of volley shots to
his game so that worked in his favor whereas some of the other players maybe like a Borge
or Connors, they had their strings strung to maybe even like eighty pounds. So that
was just a solid feel and that way it cut down on their errors. I would say most rackets
have a string tension range that you should try to hit. Its based on the size of the racket
and the type of material the racket is made out of. So you pretty much want to stay in
that range. I wouldn't vary it to much past that and also the person that?s doing you're
racket stringing should know enough about racket stringing where they'll give you some
incite on to what you should look for as far as tension goes. So once you got your racket
strung to the correct tension that feels best for your style of play, you should be good
to go.
