Clay slows the ball and lifts it, which means you need less bite from the string bed and more dwell time. Most members arrive strung two kilos tighter than the surface rewards.
Drop the tension, and the same swing produces more spin and a softer feel on the stretch. The catch is that a looser bed loses tension faster, so the honest advice is to restring more often rather than to string tighter and forget about it.
Our stringing room turns rackets around in under four hours. If you play three times a week, once a month is a sensible rhythm — and worth more to your game than most equipment upgrades.