More colorful, More fun and sexier than ever!

On Tuesday, July 6 a new, revised and improved Guts and Glory Tennis website will debut.  The creative, quirky, professional fun you have come to expect from us remains along with a great selection of tennis string products and gifts. Ordinary is Boring! Our new site serves three main purposes. 1.  Provides information about our […]

Frogg Togg Chilly Pads – Stayin’ Cool on the Courts

The fierce summer heat has hit and tennis players throughout the nation are seeking options to stay cool on the courts.  On way to combat the stifling heat and humidity is with the remarkable Frogg Togg Chilly Pad Cooling Towel. Measuring a robust 33″ x 12″ and coming in nine fantastic colors, including a new […]

Are your poly-based tennis strings shearing at the frame?

We have a theory.  Before putting it out there, it needs to be understood this theory was only recently developed and it has not yet been tested.  We will ask our blog readers who are stringers to help us test this theory. We constantly read reports and have callers asking us about poly-based strings breaking […]

Email Q & A

We get many email questions pertaining to issues related to strings, stringing and tennis elbow.  Since we get similar questions we thought it might be a good idea to post some of the more common questions using our blog as well as our responses.  Our goal is simple.  To provide additional information that people with […]

A quick primer on string gauge

Some of our recent communication with customers has involved discussion of string gauges.  Through these discussions it has become clear to me that the core differences between thinner gauge strings and thicker gauge strings is not always clear to tennis players.  Today we will attempt to provide a quick overview for our blog readers. Strings […]

Arm-friendly tennis racquets

Customers and those who frequent our web resources are acutely aware of our desire to help educate customers about equipment related tennis elbow.  We have frequently blogged about both healthy and unhealthy strings as well as racquet frames.  As a result we get a number of email and telephone questions about arm-friendly equipment.  One of […]

Don’t let this one sneak past you…WeissCANNON SuperCable Pro

Guts and Glory Tennis is delighted to introduce the new WeissCANNON SuperCable Pro to tennis players throughout the USA.  The string is a fresh update to the WeissCANNON SuperCable that was quietly introduced in 2008. In what is rapidly becoming the year of unique colors for WeissCANNON, the new SuperCable Pro is a very distinctive […]

“The Power of Purple!” – WeissCANNON 6StarString Supercharged

Throughout the ages, purple has been the color of royalty.  Purple is synonymous with creativity.  Purple is posh.  Purple represents power and wealth.  Purple is fun, youthful and unique.  It is no surprise that WeissCANNON has selected purple as the hue of choice for its attention grabbing new product, 6StarString Supercharged! WeissCANNON continues to push […]

Tensioning Outer Mains: Raise Tension or Not?

Much has been written and discussed around the issue of whether or not extra tension should be added to the outer mains when stringing.  In short there are two camps.  Inside camp #1 reside a group of people who believe the outer mains never come in contact with the ball, are the shortest of the […]

The Natural Racquet – Dear Diary Part 5

Yesterday I took “Tiger” to the courts to face our final MxD foe of the season.  “Tiger” is the name I have given the racquet, because with the advantages it provides for me,  using it is a lot like cheating.  (Insert groan here!) Anyway, this was the second match using the racquet and first time […]

Theme week: Sharing more email messages via our blog

Today we received an email message from a WeissCANNON Explosiv! user in Florida.  Check out what he had to say about this terrific product! To whom it may concern: I am a 36 year old, former collegiate player and currently compete at the 5.0 level. I run several adult tennis leagues for men and women […]

A Snipet of Yesterday’s Email Messages

Included are excerpts from yesterday’s email messages we received as it pertains to our products.  We are proud to bring fantastic products to our customers.  Thank you for choosing Guts and Glory Tennis! “WeissCANNON TurboTwist 1.18.  I’ve been playing with it for 2 months and love it!” – Glenn W. “Hi John.  Hepta string by […]

The Natural Racquet – Dear Diary Pt. 4

The weather continues to be terrible, meaning I have not had as much time to continue with the playtest as I expected.  However, it has been a couple of weeks since my last diary entry and there has been some progress. Two weeks ago I used the racquet to warm-up for a league match and […]

The Natural Racquet – Dear Diary Pt. 3

Since our last entry, bad weather has prevented us from significant play time.  However, we have been able to get out for a couple of hitting sessions and feel it is time to update our experiences with the playtesting of this racquet. First…local customers please take note, Guts and Glory Tennis now has demos of […]

MSV Hepta – Twist

MSV Hepta – Twist has hit the US shores and judging from the astonishingly high number of email inquiries we are receiving, tennis players from coast to coast are eager to learn more about the newest offering from Mauve Sports. In late 2009 we playtested this product along with several local playtesters.  The results were […]

The Natural Racquet – Dear Diary pt. 2

Tonight was the first live action with The Natural racquet.  As promised in the previous entry, I am going to use this blog as as a diary to fully document my personal journey of discovery with this racquet. The night began with my teammates laughing hysterically at the silly looking racquet.  I could have cared […]

The Natural Tennis Racquet – A Diary

It has been several weeks since our last blog entry.  Our customers have been excellent to us during these difficult economic times and we have been blessed to continue growing.  The downside of growth is there is less time to devote to non-essential business functions such as blogging.  2010 will likely find fewer blog entries […]

Thank you!

For our loyal readers, we apologize for the long delay between blog entries.  As many of you know we are a small family owned business.  Our size allows us to be familiar and friendly with our customers.  It allows us to provide the personal and friendly service of days gone by when the customers interacted […]

Cyber Monday Sales Spectacular

Today is Cyber Monday.  Please visit our website and follow the Cyber Monday link in the left menu column for some wild savings.  Hope you enjoy! www.ggtennis.com

Going Rogue in the stringing workshop = “Pillow Top Tri-Brid” â„¢

What you see pictured above is a stringing method that has the potential to shake, rattle and roll modern-day stringing conventions while shattering the accepted two-piece paradigm.  At Guts and Glory Tennis, we are “going rogue” in 2010! We call this process the “Pillow-Top Tri -Brid.” â„¢ We are currently concluding playtests.  The early feedback […]