Workshop

Stringing, tuning, matching and carbon frame repair at Aube, in the Orne, 7.5 km from L'Aigle. Open seven days a week all year, with the measured values recorded in writing.

L0 to L5 assumes a hand shape as much as a hand size. The two measuring methods, their real margin of error, what a grip that is too small costs your elbow, and where the convention stops.

Two frames from the same box can differ by several grams and several points of swingweight. What that gap costs in a match, and how it is removed.

A cracked or broken frame is not condemned. What carbon repair actually restores, what it does not, and the single criterion that decides.

A paintjob changes not one gram of how your racquet plays. That is exactly what makes it honest — and what makes it more than decoration.

Between L0 and L5, most players settle for an approximate handle. What actually gets adapted — size, length, sometimes section and butt — and why a handle moulded to your hand would be nonsense in tennis.