Tournaments Stringers Day

Written by David Hall

David Hall is the owner of Racket Sport Services, providing a pro shop and stringing services both at Frinton-On-Sea Lawn Tennis Club, and a home-based stringing service in Essex, England.  His initial training as a stringer was provided by the company who sold him his first machine back in 1986. He is a founding member of the UKRSA, and his experience of all racquet sports has provided him the opportunity to work at many tournaments. 

He has worked at Futures events in England, and at the WTA and ATP event at Eastbourne, where in 2009 he was head stringer. David is also an accomplished badminton stringer, stringing at the English National Badminton Championships for several years, many badminton age groups championships and national premier league weekends. 

David has attended five IART symposiums and recognizes the value of the event for his own personal development as well as the opportunity it presents to share knowledge with others and learn from the best in the world. 

David’s tournament experience has expanded in 2022 by firstly being the UKRSA Tournament Stringing Team Manager and secondly by taking the opportunity to string at two ATP Challenger level tournaments internationally in 2022 and 2023 at one in 2025. 

Being a member of IART has also resulted in an expansion of his own business in becoming the sole UK distributor for several string companies.

1 March 2022

Members will recall, we ran a successful tournaments stringers day last year at Frinton Tennis Club. And those attending have been the backbone of the Dunlop/UKRSA Stringing Team over the last 12 months.

We have opportunities for new tournament stringers this year and therefore propose to run the day again for any members wanting to start tournament stringing. This day will initially be open to UKRSA members only.

Whilst the day will concentrate on tennis tournaments the skills learnt can be easily transferred to both squash and badminton.

We plan an informative day focusing on the do’s and don’ts of running or being part of a stringing team, our partnership with Dunlop and most importantly put you into a tournament stringing scenario for the day to give you some idea of the pressures and fun of a tournament stringing room.

Members please sign in and go to the Technical Forum for more information.

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