2020 Review

2020 has not been without it's challenges, with racket sports being severely affected by Covid19. April & May proved to be the months where racket stringing almost stopped, but from June onwards the amount of rackets has almost matched the pervious year. 2020 has...

John Perella

At the beginning of the 2016-2017 Squash season I was looking for someone to restring my rackets. Finding Gary’s company has been excellent he is reliable, and does a fantastic professional job. "I play competitive squash to Warwickshire First division standard and...

Open String Patterns

Open String Patterns

I don't often get rackets with a 16x16 open string pattern, most people go for the more popular patterns such as 16x19 or 18x20.So what are the advantages of such an open string pattern:Less density of string can offer a softer arm friendly response.The ball can also...

What is Hybrid Stringing

Players of all levels now play with a hybrid string set up in their tennis rackets. According to Babolat 70% of ATP players and 80% of WTA players use a hybrid set up. Yet many recreational players seem to be unaware of this option. Hybrid stringing combines two...

Solihull Racket Services- The New Name

Solihull Racket Services- The New Name

  On 1st March 2018, Hillfield Racquet Stringing was rebranded as Solihull Racket Services. The motivation behind the rebranding was to enable the business to appear more frequently on the major search engines. It was vitally important to incorporate Solihull in...