Big Time! Tennis

5 stock Head Radical Pros from Fromuth. 1 point of swing weight and 2.6 grams static weight range is not bad at all. I can work with that.

79 rackets yesterday at Winston-Salem Open . 2 day total of 102. Qualies start tomorrow. Full day for and got up and running, both doing the Cincinnati/Winston-Salem double this year.

As soon as I wheeled my Baiardo into the stringing area I had a request for two "on court" practice rackets. Hit the ground sprinting at the Winston-Salem Open today. 9 days to go.

Stadium being built for year 12 of the Winston-Salem Open. Coincidentally, also the 12th year I will be stringing the tournament.

Must be college tennis season... Also means Winston Salem Open is close. Even if you're not a college athlete or professional, if you care about your rackets and strings I'm here for you!

I told Paul I would come out of retirement to cover for him stringing for Wake Forest so he could play a US Open golf qualifier in New York. Little did I know it would be the day before they leave for the NCAAs!

To my other customers, I will be out of town May 5 to 23!

Happy 28th birthday to my left hand man, Paul Yamane, who has been stringing professionally a little more than half his life now.

13 years ago today, my introduction to tournament stringing, working with 15 year old Paul for Jay Lewandowski at the ITA National Team Indoors in Charlottesville. You never forget your first time!

Relocated Panda Racquet Lab is back open for business so I can tune some sticks for Wake Forest Men's Tennis team as they embark on their 2023 season.

Heading West the visit family so shutting down for the balance of 2022. See everyone in 2023!

It's possible I developed Stockholm Syndrome over my 9 days stringing for Tom Parry at the IMG Academy Dunlop Tennis Innovation Center but I loved working for someone who forgot last week more than I know about stringing, string, and string holders.

Jimmy Arias stop by just in time to snap a pic of the 2022 Eddie Herr International Junior Championships stringing team.

Today was my last full day stringing the Eddie Herr International Junior Championships at IMG. It's been a great 8 days. Thanks to Tom Parry for the invite and giving Yamane The Elder and Yamane The Younger the opportunity to string together.

8a to 8p yesterday team knocked out 129 rackets at the Eddie Herr International Junior Championships. 2.7 rackets per stringer per hour. That's about my limit.

Business is picking up at the Eddie Herr International Junior Championships.

Only bucket list experiences could get me to skip Thanksgiving with family. That's why I am here, to string with the legend Tom Parry at the Eddie Herr International Junior Championships. 🪣📋✅

Arrived on the IMG Academy campus today and learned that Nick Bollettieri is still alive!

How'd I miss this? Because I did the interview on August!

There are tons of NC roots in the newest episode of Talking Tennis Southern Style, the official podcast of USTA Southern!

Dan Kester played for the University of North Carolina club tennis team and has gone on to open his store, I Play Tennis, in Atlanta.

David Yamane, of Big Time! Tennis in Winston-Salem, is the leading stringer for the Winston-Salem Open and was named the 2014 Racquet Sports Industry Stringer of the Year.

They also highlight Jimin Jung, a top junior player from Cary!

🔊 Give this episode a listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts 🔊

Just because your Heads don't come from Austria doesn't mean you can't have them tuned to perfection.

I don't care who wins the other semifinal. I am with Ons Jabeur in the US Open final. She and I go way back, to the WTA tournament in Lexington, KY, summer of 2020. Allez!

6 Blades from the Wilson ProLab I was given to check the work. The work checks out. Good job ProLab.

Adrian Mannarino ready for the singles final of the ATP World Tour Winston-Salem Open this evening. My 233rd and 234th (and last?) rackets of the tournament.

6 finalists competing at the Winston-Salem Open today and 6 different racquet manufacturers represented.

We're too busy stringing at the Winston-Salem Open to do analytics but in terms of number of rackets per match our range was 0 to 7, and the average about 2 rackets for singles players and 1 racket for doubles players. Plenty of work for the 3 stringer + 1 desk assistant MOZI Tennis team.

Thanks TCU tennis for loaning us Johnny Pham for the MOZI Tennis stringing team at the Winston-Salem Open . He busted out over 140 rackets in 5 days. Big time!

Top box is Luxilon. Bottom box is all other string brands. Winston-Salem Open

We are really happy for Borna Coric who we enjoyed stringing for at the Winston-Salem Open 5 years ago.

Day (I lost track) of Winston-Salem Open for MOZI Tennis stringing team. Lowest tension of tournament is 10 kg (22 pounds) and highest is 65 pounds.

11:30pm, coming up on 15 hours stringing. Thiem and Wolf warming up to resume their match at

Rackets for today's matches at Winston-Salem Open are done and MOZI Tennis team is starting to chip away at tomorrow's rackets.