Tennis Gifts

Tennis players and the people who coach them are famously hard to shop for. The racket was chosen after months of demoing, the shoes are a specific model, and the bag already holds everything it needs to. What none of it has is their own name on it. Every piece here is personalized free with a name plus a team, school, or year, laser engraved in our Monroe, Connecticut workshop.

More Sports and Team Gifts

Shopping for a different sport, or for the season ending rather than starting? These collections pick up where this one leaves off.

Sports Water Bottles Every sport we engrave, in twelve team colors.	Golf Outing Gifts The other racket-and-club crowd, with gifts for the whole field.
Personalized Coolers For long tournament Saturdays and the parents in the stands.	Graduation Gifts for Him For the senior whose last match and last day are weeks apart.
Baseball Player Gifts Most spring athletes play something else too.	All Sports Gifts Every personalized sports gift we make, all in one place.

How to Choose a Tennis Gift

Tennis is an equipment sport where the player has already made every equipment decision themselves. Buying more gear is how a well-meant gift ends up in a closet. The pieces that get kept sit beside the gear and carry something the pro shop cannot sell, which is the player's own name. Start with who they are on the court.

If they play year-round or travel for tournaments. USTA weekends mean long days in the heat with a bag that lives in the car. A personalized water bottle with their name engraved on it solves the real problem of six identical bottles on one bench, and it holds 32oz so it covers a full match without a refill.

If they play for a school team. High school and college players identify with the roster more than the ranking. Put the team name or the school on the bottom line instead of a year, and the gift becomes specific to that squad in that season rather than to tennis in general.

If they are a senior. The last home match deserves the class year on it. The Personalized Senior Night Tennis Water Bottle engraves their name with SENIOR, the class year, or the school underneath, and it travels to whatever they play next.

If the gift is from the whole team to the coach. Engrave the coach's name with your team name underneath. A group gift that names the specific group reads very differently from one that just says COACH, and it costs the same.

How Much Should You Spend on a Tennis Gift?

Tennis families already spend heavily on lessons and travel, so the gift does not need to compete with that. Here is how most people think about it by relationship.

Who Are You Shopping For?

Your own player. Use what you know from the sidelines. Their school, their team, or the year they finally broke into the varsity lineup. Any of those on the bottom line beats a generic tennis graphic.

Their coach. The Personalized Tennis Coach Water Bottle takes the coach's name plus COACH, your team name, or the season year. It is the gift a team signs its name to without a card.

A senior in their last season. Put the class year on it. The Personalized Senior Night Tennis Water Bottle is built for the last home match, and it goes with them to college.

Someone who plays a different sport too? The Sports Water Bottles collection has the same bottle engraved for baseball, football, soccer, volleyball, hockey, and cross country.