Racquet Customising
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When tennis racquets are manufactured, due to the nature of the construction process, it is impossible to make a batch of frames with absolute identical specifications. The better factories can narrow down the tolerance to within +/-5 grams of weight, +/-5 millimetres of balance point and +/-5 units of swingweight; i.e. racquets that are supposedly "identical" can have discrepancies of 10 units for each of these three characteristics. Others may have a much higher discrepancy. Players with multiple racquets obviously need all of their frames to be the same. This is where frame customising comes in. We can customise a frame if: - the player knows his/her desired specifications, i.e. weight, balance point and swingweight,
- the desired specifications are obtained from a particular "favourite" frame and used as a bench-mark to match all the player's other frames to the same specifications,
- the player's optimum specifications are determined by doing an on-court player enhancement analysis.
When watching the pros play, you may notice some lead tape placed on specific locations of the frame. More commonly, the customising is done so that the lead tape is not visible but every professional player has some degree of customising done to their frames. At TopServe we use exclusive diagnostic equipment that allows us to customise frames to the following unrivalled accuracy: Weight: +/-0.05 gram Balance: +/-0.25mm Swingweight: +/-0.5 kg.cm2 |