Guts and Glory Tennis – – Now on Facebook

We freely admit to being social networking newbies.  Last week we spent some time setting up our personal facebook site and an interesting phenomena occurred.  Several of our local stringing customers requested us to befriend them online. As we became more familiar with the facebook community we learned that groups existed and we created a […]

SECRET SALE!!!

It’s 3:45pm EST on Friday and why not celebrate the weekend with another limited time secret sale?  Afterall these sales bring smiles to the face of our customers who receive incredible savings. This week much of the discussion and emails have centered around Topspin’s new product, the Concept Pure.  We are going to offer an […]

Introducing a NEW tennis term…

At Guts and Glory Tennis, we are avid tennis players as well as racquet technicians.  Today we are extremely proud to unveil a new tennis term that will soon be sweeping the tennis world.  Remember, you heard it here first! “Lobortunity” – (noun) meaning: 1.  An appropriate or favorable time or occasion to lob. 2.  […]

Seriously???

Earlier this year we posted a blog entry suggesting that our method for stringing the Prince “port style” racquets was a superior approach to that used by most stringers. (Click Here for Blog Entry) Above you will find an image of a racquet that came into our shop yesterday. The customer had it strung elsewhere […]

Recycling of topical posts for new readers

For readers who are new to our blog, we welcome you and wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day! Given the A-Rod story and steroids are back in the news we thought it might be fun to point our readers to a post we made last year in which we confessed to the use of performance […]

Use Tennis to Defeat the Recession Blues

Let’s face it, without getting political, our country is facing severe financial challenges. Seemingly everywhere we turn the news is grim. Before making a personal career change to the world of tennis entrepreneurship, I served for many years as a career services professional. Yes, my job was to help people in all aspects of a […]

Welcome New Customers

Guts and Glory Tennis would like to extend a special welcome to new stringing customers who formerly were being serviced locally by Coach Matt’s Tennis & More and Premier Tennis. Unfortunately in the past few weeks each of these local tennis retailers have had to close their doors. While we are always saddened to see […]

WeissCANNON Explosiv! – Playtest results

As many of our blog readers are aware we have been undergoing an ongoing playtest with the incredible WeissCANNON Explosiv! multifil tennis string. The playtest has yielded amazing results. (Please see full article here!) After more than 8 months of an extended playtest, we are going to voluntarily end the test. The string has not […]

New DEEP DISCOUNT Pricing

WeissCANNON and Guts and Glory Tennis understand the financial challenges that these economic times are presenting to many throughout the USA. In an effort to be supportive of our customers who are seeking high quality strings at a price points they can afford, we are instituting a program where we subsidize pricing on select WeissCANNON […]

SECRET SALE ALERT

Another SECRET SALE!!! As a reader of our blog site you know that we run specials here from time to time that are not located on our web site. Today and until product sells, we are offering a clearance sale on Topspin CyberBlue reels. These 726′ beauties just arrived from Germany and some have been […]

We’re at it again…

Guts and Glory Tennis is proud of our pioneering spirit.  Whether people realize it or not, we have made a significant impact on tennis players throughout the USA with our ability to locate, playtest and introduce new string products to the US marketplace. Did you know we were the first in the USA to introduce […]

Are Poly-Based strings more powerful than synthetics?

We are frequently asked about the inherent power of strings. Some people believe that poly and poly-based strings offer greater power than synthetics and some believe they offer more power than natural gut. Is this belief true or false? The belief that poly and poly-based strings are more powerful is 100% false, however there is […]

1992…Geez that is OLD!!!

In 1992 Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show for the final time. Steffi Graf d. Monica Seles in the Wimbledon Finals and Andre Agassi d. Goran Ivanisevic in the same tournament. Reebok launched it’s Dan vs. Dave commercials leading into the Barcelona Olympics. (One made the US team and the other did not make the […]

KLiP Excellerator – Rockin’ the House!

Several years ago we playtested many of the KLiP offerings and came away impressed. At the time we were a much smaller operation with more limited offerings and decided not to introduce KLiP products to our local customers. (Probably not one of our wiser business decisions.) However, we always remembered the quality of the offerings. […]

Who’s Stringing Your Prince “Port-Style” Racquet?

Prince tennis has long been an innovator in racquet design. Tennis players throughout the world have flocked to the new design that Prince refers to as O Ports and Speed Ports. What most tennis players do not know is that ALL of the new Prince “port” frames that have ports located on the 3 and […]

True Confessions of a Tension Loss Snob

When we first began our stringing business we were desperate to separate our fledgling company from competitors. We sought out to educate ourselves about strings and string products and through this process determined that tension loss was bad, in fact it was down right evil. We quickly jumped on this concept and while fully believing […]

Welcome KLiP!

Not since Air Supply, have our mates from down under exported such a high-pitched product to the USA. KLiP strings proudly reflect the line of tennis excellence which made Australia a dominant world power in the sport. Guts and Glory Tennis is proud to be the only NE Metro Atlanta tennis stringing service to make […]

2009 – Let’s Get Wild!!!

WAKE THE KIDS AND CALL THE NEIGHBORS!!! For 2009 we want to aggressively market our stringing services to new customers who reside in our service delivery area. Thus we are pleased to announce our “WILD 9’s” discount special. If you are currently using another stringing service for your racquet stringing, this is the perfect time […]

Happy New Year!

We wish all of our readers and customers a terrific 2009! We invite you to continue reading our blog as 2009 has many exciting announcements in store. Our intent is to post new content at least 2x per week. We’ll have to see if we can make that happen this year. With the new posts […]

Stringbed stiffness…some thoughts

At Guts and Glory Tennis we use an ERT 700 tennis computer to measure the stringbed stiffness on each frame we restring for our customers. The data collected from this equipment is then entered into our customer database to help us provide the most consistent stringing service to our customers. The ERT 700, (and newer […]