Although wet courts Wednesday morning delayed play in USTA Boys 14s National Clay Court Championships, Dothan’s Don Bryan was plenty busy stringing rackets at the Westgate Tennis Center for the players in town.
“I get here at 3:30 in the morning sometimes and I’m stringing until, golly, 10 o’clock ,” Bryan said. “You can have 16-hour days of just stringing.
“Probably about every three days,” Bryan said of the player’s needs. “Some of them are not necessarily string breakers, but the string loses its playability, so what they want to do is come in at get some fresh strings. “Mike Watson from Ozark taught me,” Bryan said. “He’s the one that got me into tennis. He explained one little thing to me and he said, ‘It’s up to you’ and I just learned. The first racket took me an hour and 45 minutes.”
Bryan explains that with the force the players of this caliber swing the racket, it is necessary to restring them quite often. Each player brings multiple rackets to a tournament. Bryan said serious junior tennis players know exactly what they want as far as what kind of string to use and how tight they want it strung when they hand their racket over to Bryan.
While Bryan is a common face at tournaments at the WTC, he also strings many rackets for local recreation players of all ages.
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