A professional racquet stringer, and 2GB listener, has shown Deborah Knight exactly what it takes to create the tennis essential.

Listener Noel Dodds custom makes racquets for professional athletes.

But he told Deborah Knight people who play weekly need to get their racquet strung once per year.

“If you’re starting to miss the shots you weren’t missing three months ago, it might not be you … quite often it actually is the strings.”

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