Grand Central Racquet Stringers

Tiny hole in the wall, but great service and nice people. Quick turnaround and pricing seemed reasonable. Not an expert, but feel like they did a good job.

These guys are great. I spent a solid 30 minutes in the 44^th st storefront (between Madison and Vanderbilt) with a legend named Mark. He was helpful, friendly, professional and just an all round great guy. Can highly recommend this if for nothing else than to come chat to and learn from Mark about anything tennis or squash!

I needed a racquet restrung. My brother highly recommended this shop. I told him I was happy with where I have been servicing my racquets, the NTC in Flushing and their sister store on 35^th Street in Manhattan. He convinced me to give them a try. To my surprise, this store is also a sister store. They have the same people doing the same quality work. We had a conversation on what I was looking for from the racquet, and options available. The racquet was restrung and available sooner than promised. I also placed an order for new racquet. Woody has been contacting me to update the status of the order. I couldn’t be happier with the service they provide.

I was recommended by a friend to try this place out for racket stringing. I break strings prob every 2.5 hours of playing so need a good, quick, cheap place to get my rackets done. These guys are best in the business!!! They are very knowledgable w respect to strings, tension and what sort of game that you play. They also turn my rackets around same day ALWAYS. The location is very central as well. I also got a squash racket strung and was going to use some old tennis strings to do, but they said i would be much better off w their squash strings and they let me trade some syn gut for a good squash string. Ask for Woody, he will take care of you.

I am really disappointed with this place. I am admittedly not the most knowledgeable person about squash racquets — which is why I came here, because I thought they would do a good job explaining the correct strings for my racquet. The guy behind the counter was a total sleaze. He pressured me into getting an expensive string ($ 30) — which is fine — but then he said I needed a new grip. He pulled one off the shelf and said it would be perfect for my racquet and would cost $ 12. That sounded a little fishy, but I know nothing about squash racquets so said o.k.
When I got back to myoffice, I did a little Internet research and found that grips should go for much cheaper. I came back to pick up my racquet today. When I got there (lucky for me) the guy behind the counter’s boss was there. When he saw my racquet he said to the guy who sold me the grip «why’d you put a tennis grip on his racquet?»
It turned out he did so because it was more expensive than squash grips, and he wanted to make a few more bucks off me. To make matters worse, though, he claimed I had requested this grip even though it wasn’t right, but it was THE ONLY GRIP HE SHOWED ME. Additionally, he told me the grip was perfect for my racquet. I am incredibly disappointed in this store, and will warn all potential customers NOT to use their services.

One of my Tennis partners recommended this place and once I realized they were 4 blocks from my office, decided to re-​string both my Babolats (they were in desperate need of it). Of course this place is impossible to find without calling them but Woody was very pleasant when I asked and also wound up stringing both of them the day I called. He did it in 2 hours. Very pleased so far with the quality of the stringing as I’ve played a few times since then, with no issues. Can’t speak to the value of the price ($ 40 each) since that is about what I’ve paid other places as well,

Grand Central was recommended to me for stringing after my disastrous Paragon stringing experience.
They are true specialists at what they do. The manager, Woody, is friendly and very helpful. He basically started the stringing business in NYC and has been doing it for 30 years. He approaches stringing scientifically and with a definite personal touch.
After 2 months, I am very happy with my first stringing there and won’t go anywhere else from now on.

Reliable place to get your racket strung. Even if you have a match later in the day, you can be sure they’ll get your racket done if you drop it off in the morning.
Jahdiel and Mark are very helpful, nice and friendly.
In terms of prices, I think that it’s relatively more expensive here probably to cover their costs to run their expensive midtown location. But the place is really small.
Tip: Ask for a discount if you’re a member of the USTA.