Rackets N String

Awesome company! Owners put their heart and soul into their work. So glad we found them. They have saved me hours of frustration in not having to deal with the big box stores. Run, don’t walk, to have R & S handle your stringing needs.

If you want the best quality and service, come visit Randy and Nicki! Fast and knowledgable! Have tons of string and tennis-​related merchandise.
As an experienced player who demands a lot from his racquets, there’s no alternative.

The best racquetball restringing guru around! I’ve used Randy for six years!
There is no one better with his 21 years of experience the knowledge and detail to service is phenomenal!

I have tried other stringers but they are all short of the work that Randy does. The most important thing that Randy offers is playability. He will work with you to find a string combo that helps you have fun. He’s a Master Stringer which means that every year he is refreshing his skills and improving. He won’t crack your frame, string your racquet halfway and then go to lunch or put you in a set of strings that will damage your arm. He and Nicki do a great job and I drive almost an hour each way to get my racquets strung here.

I started tennis a little later in life (late 20s) than some, but, once bitten by the bug, I have been addicted to the game: its history, strategy and equipment. Randy has been a great resource as it pertains to the last of these. He is always willing to share his wisdom/​recommendations and even entertain my possibly overly obsessive theories about how, say, small changes in equipment lead to dramatic changes in my performance.
Before Rackets N String, I was bringing my racquets to PGA Superstore or to the local tennis club for stringing. I never had an issue with the work of these stringers. However, the delay at PGA was up to a week at certain points of the year. And at the tennis shop, it is a crapshoot as to whether or not you will get a consistent string job or even the same stringer every time. With Randy and Nicki, both of these issues are… not issues. Promptness of service is unsurpassed, and he even has a nifty stringbed measurement tool that scientifically proves consistency between string jobs.
Material and labor prices are definitely reasonable, and they seemingly always have a generous special going on.
Rackets N String is, to put it bluntly, the best service you will receive in DFW. When I stumbled across them from a Craigslist ad for a used racquet, I had no idea I’d still be going there for all my tennis needs over two years later. I’ve recommended several people to them and will continue to do so. Randy and Nicki are simply good people, and I am happy to count them as friends.

So tennis is one of my passions, and I play quite a bit. Against men, women, children and even the elderly. I’ve been known to overhead slam my female opponent in mixed dubs, and I’ve gotten the ball drilled into my junk before. It’s part of the game. I’ve had some very serious USTA sectionals matches trying to get to nationals, and I’ve played doubles against 70 and 80 year old former state champions who can still play, even if they can’t move. So in all this, I’m looking for a secret weapon. That weapon is Randy Stephenson.
Randy’s passion is stringing racquets. He is certified as a master racquet technician which is an elite group of about 350 people WORLDWIDE. He is so good that he has been flown to Wimbledon and other pro tournaments to be on their stringing team for the pros, and has strung racquets for Nadal, the Bryan brothers and others. Pros coming through Dallas to train or play in the Challenger tournament routinely call him up and have him do their stringing.
Umm…yeah: good enough for me.
He and his wife are really sweet, down to earth people, and he is happy to string your racquet and talk with you while he works. A quick call ahead is usually best to make sure he’s got time.
It’s not any more expensive than what I was paying at a local country club before, even though it’s a hella long way for me to Plano. He’s got a very cool electronic string bed tension test machine, as well as the latest high-​tech stringing machines. I have LOVED the way my strings play ever since going to him.
So if you see me out in the 100 degree summer sun getting my ass run around the court by some geriatric, know that at least I have only myself, not my awesome strings, to blame.