Lightweight and long-lasting: Bamboo Beach-Ball Racquets

We’ve been trying to work out for years some way of offering our customers a decent racquet to play beach tennis with. The problem was this: the usual frame is light, but cheap and nasty, and a quality frame of solid wood seemed to be too heavy. After looking around for some time we discovered ‘racquets’, a rather rare game played only in England, and the original ancestor of squash. It’s a much harder, faster game than squash, demanding a ‘racquet’ that is both extremely tough and extra light. Bamboo is the preferred material, combining lightness (260 g) and near-indestructability. It can also be re-strung. As balls we recommend our hollow or solid rubber balls: for sizes and colours see “Rubber Balls” and “Tennis Balls” opposite.