Racquet stringing

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Tait on August 7, 2009 at 12:00am

I'm not familiar with any West Island Sports Experts... I have been to Sports Experts @ Centre Ville for badminton only and Brossard for both tennis and badminton though... The Centre-Ville location snapped strings on two occasions when stringing my badminton rackets in the past, that was quite something. I highly doubt that happens often & tennis strings are an entirely different case. No problems with the Brossard one, but that's pretty far for you.

Also notable: Sports Experts tends to overcharge on strings bigtime. In example, Luxilon Alu Power, they charge around $45 or $50 for the whole stringing job (before tax!). My tactic is always to order the string online, then pay for only the labor in-store. Stringing labor there is $12.50 currently. I ordered Alu Power 127 online for 22$ (incl. shipping). So in total I saved a at least 10 or 15 dollars, a small victory on my part.

If you want decent prices and a shop that's definately good when it comes to stringing, consider Lucien Laverdure. They've been around for many years and are very specialized in the racket field.

I hope that was helpful.

Permalink Reply by Tom Wang on August 7, 2009 at 3:17pm

Thanks a lot for the advice! It was definitely very informative.

Tom

Christopher Tait said:

I'm not familiar with any West Island Sports Experts... I have been to Sports Experts @ Centre Ville for badminton only and Brossard for both tennis and badminton though... The Centre-Ville location snapped strings on two occasions when stringing my badminton rackets in the past, that was quite something. I highly doubt that happens often & tennis strings are an entirely different case. No problems with the Brossard one, but that's pretty far for you.

Also notable: Sports Experts tends to overcharge on strings bigtime. In example, Luxilon Alu Power, they charge around $45 or $50 for the whole stringing job (before tax!). My tactic is always to order the string online, then pay for only the labor in-store. Stringing labor there is $12.50 currently. I ordered Alu Power 127 online for 22$ (incl. shipping). So in total I saved a at least 10 or 15 dollars, a small victory on my part.

If you want decent prices and a shop that's definately good when it comes to stringing, consider Lucien Laverdure. They've been around for many years and are very specialized in the racket field.

I hope that was helpful.