About The Tennis Store

The Tennis Store started because of a frustration most serious Australian players will recognise. You know what you want — a specific string, a particular gauge, something you'd read about or seen used on tour — and you can't find it here. The big retailers stock what sells in volume. Wilson, Babolat, a few Solinco models if you're lucky. The interesting strings, the ones the stringing community is actually talking about, the boutique brands doing genuinely novel things with co-poly construction — those were being shipped from the US or Europe, at shipping costs that made no sense for a set or two at a time.

That gap is what The Tennis Store was built to close. We're a small Melbourne-based team, and between us we have years of stringing experience alongside playing the game. We're not a general sports retailer that happened to add strings to the catalogue. Strings are the product, the obsession, and the reason we exist.

Why We Focus on NextGen Brands

The most interesting developments in string technology right now are not coming from the major racquet brands. They're coming from specialist string companies — outfits that exist to make strings and nothing else, whose entire R&D budget goes into co-poly compounds, surface treatments, profile geometry, and tension maintenance rather than marketing a racquet line.

Brands like Grapplesnake, ReString, and Toroline are engineering strings that the bigger players simply aren't. Grapplesnake's Aspera Triplum stacks three separate spin mechanisms into a single 1.19mm string. ReString's Zero was built from the ground up around snapback performance and spin consistency. Toroline's Truffle X uses a polymer compound that doesn't behave like traditional polyester at all — its static stiffness sits closer to premium multifilaments while still delivering the control character of a shaped co-poly.

These strings exist because small, focused companies can take risks the big players won't. We stock them because we believe Australian players deserve access to what the rest of the world's stringing community is already using — without the overseas shipping bill.

We Also Stock the Classics — Because They're Classics for a Reason

Grapplesnake is compelling. But Luxilon Alu Power is the most-used string on the ATP Tour for good reason. Solinco Hyper-G is one of the best spin strings made. Tecnifibre Black Code has been quietly excellent for years. Head Hawk Touch is what Jannik Sinner strings his racquets with.

We stock the established names alongside the emerging ones because the goal is the right string for your game — not a brand agenda. If a classic works for you, we'll tell you that. If a NextGen string would work better, we'll tell you that instead.

Stringing Knowledge, Not Just Retail

Everyone on our team strings racquets. That's not incidental — it shapes how we think about the products we stock and how we talk about them. When we say a string stretches during installation or holds tension better than expected at 10 hours of play, that's not copied from a spec sheet. It's from having the string on a machine and in a frame.

The blog reflects the same approach. No filler, no generic buying guides. Just honest accounts of what strings actually do, who they suit, and what happens when you put them in different frames at different tensions.

Shipping Across Australia and New Zealand

We ship to every state and territory in Australia, and to New Zealand. Orders over AUD $150 ship free. Most orders go out within one to two business days — we keep meaningful stock of everything we list, so what you see is genuinely available.

If you have a question about a string, a stringing setup, or what might work for your frame and game, get in touch. We're a small team, we read our emails, and we'd rather spend five minutes helping you make the right call than have you guess and end up with the wrong string for a few months.