About us
No spin, just honest advice and great service from Cumbria’s racket sports specialist
Border Rackets was formed in 2020 to provide additional choice for racket sports players to buy badminton, tennis and pickleball equipment from a knowledgable, local source. Our aim is to serve local players with a superior shopping experience, in-store and online.
Located in the beautiful county of Cumbria, home to the world famous Lake District National Park, we are based in the city of Carlisle at Chatsworth Tennis Club.
Our objective is to help racket sports enthusiasts find the perfect gear for their playing style helping them to make the most out of their game.
As well as selling rackets from leading brands like Yonex, Head and Babolat, we also sell footwear, accessories, grips, bags, balls and shuttlecocks. We offer a professional racket restringing service using state of the art electronic machines and are certified Tour level racket stringers.
So if it’s simple, honest advice combined with professional and flexible service you’re after, then look no further than Border Rackets.
2020
Conceived in 2019, formed in 2020, commenced full operations and trading 2021
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Products now available
5 STAR
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Ken has decades of experience playing racket sports and used to joke that he even wanted to win the warm-up (okay, maybe he wasn’t joking!)
Originally a tennis player he went over to the dark side in his mid-teens (Badminton) and claimed numerous regional and county titles before discovering he wasn’t as good as he thought he was. Eventually, having worn out knees and shoulders, he swapped smashing for stringing and now talks (some would say ‘drones on’) for hours about the finer points of strings and stringing.
Having built several successful businesses from the ground up, he is tuned in to the needs of customers and – like all good stringers – has the experience to know that “the devil is in the detail”.
When not manning the shop or interfering with the website, he can be found spending time with his family, providing taxi services to his teenage sons and spoiling Barry, his lazy, but loveable English Bulldog.