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Using a racquet with the wrong grip size can hurt your game and your arm.
Learn how to measure your hand for the proper grip size.
Here's How:
- On your dominant hand, note that your palm has three main creases.
- Hold your hand flat, palm up, with the fingers alongside one
another.
- Measure from the middle crease of your palm, up the line between
your middle and ring fingers, to a point equal to the height
of the tip
of your ring finger.
- It's more accurate to measure from an inch mark on the ruler
than from the end, but don't forget to subtract the extra
inches.
- Round your measurement up to the nearest eighth of an inch.
Tips:
- For the average woman, this measurement will fall between 4 1/8" and
4 3/8", for average men between 4 1/2" and 4 3/4".
- Most models of junior racquets offer a very limited selection
of grip sizes.
- You'll do better playing with too large a grip than too small,
but you can fatten a grip by 1/8 with an overwrap much more
easily than
you can reduce a too-large grip.
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