Custom Shirts for Tennis Tournaments, Charity Events, and Club Competitions

Traditional tournament shirt logistics are a coordination burden. You estimate entries, commit to a print quantity, wait for production, pick up the shirts, and distribute them at check-in. If 30 people enter but you ordered for 40, you have leftover inventory. If 50 enter but you ordered for 40, some participants leave without a shirt.

Bear Grips eliminates both problems. Include the shop link in your tournament registration confirmation and let participants order at any time before the event. Each shirt is made to order and ships directly to their home. Your pre-order window closes a week before the event and everyone who ordered has a shirt before they arrive at the courts.

No inventory. No distribution table. No leftover shirts. No sizing shortfalls.

Tournament shirts have a specific design need that regular club shirts do not: they often include the event name, date, and sometimes a sponsor logo. Bear Grips supports complex multi-element designs with no per-color surcharge, so including all of that in a single print costs the same as a simple logo print.

Common tournament shirt layouts include a center-chest main graphic with the tournament name and year, a sponsor bar or logo cluster on the back or sleeve, and the host club logo positioned at the left chest. All of these elements can be combined in a single design file and printed exactly as submitted.

For charity events, adding the beneficiary organization's name or logo to the design reinforces the purpose of the event and gives participants an additional reason to wear the shirt in public, which extends the fundraising awareness beyond the event day.

Tournament staff and volunteers are often an afterthought in apparel planning. They need shirts that identify them on court, but they are typically a small group that does not meet the minimum quantity for a separate commercial order.

Bear Grips solves this at the same base price as participant shirts. A tournament director can order 6 staff shirts in specific sizes with no minimum and receive them in about a week. The staff shirt can be a different color variant of the same participant design, or a completely different product (for example, a polo for staff while participants receive tees).

Staff shirts ordered directly by the tournament director are billed at the base price. The director pays the same price a consumer would minus whatever margin they set on the retail price for participants. Setting the staff order price at retail price and the participant shirt slightly higher is a common approach to recover some of the cost.

Charity tennis events can use the shirt itself as a fundraising mechanism. Set the retail price above the Bear Grips base price and donate the margin to the beneficiary organization. For example, set a tee at $35 with a $24 VIP base price. The $11 margin goes to the charity. Every participant who orders a shirt is making a small donation.

This works best when the shirt design prominently features the charitable cause. Participants who understand that their shirt purchase supports the organization are more motivated to buy one and more likely to wear it publicly after the event.

Some charity events also offer higher-tier shirts at a premium price, with the extra margin going to the charity. A standard tee at $35 and a premium hoodie at $65, with both margins supporting the cause, gives participants a choice at checkout that increases average donation per participant.