There would be no Australian Open were it not for the work undertaken in an unassuming underground room at Melbourne Park ...

THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB, LONDON — On the first day of Wimbledon, Ed Day, a university student from just outside London, ran 17.5 kilometers across the All England Club. Those kilometers took him from the ...

"The 4:30 wakeup to start stringing tennis rackets is not the most pleasurable thing in the world," Yu said. The rackets Yu strings will be used in about six or seven hours, when the strings start to ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- As River Oaks Country Club hosts the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship, top-ranked players and title winners are on full display. Not nearly as visible, ...

After months of nail-biting uncertainty and an intense search, Tennis String Theory — a boutique tennis shop known for ...

Behind the scenes at the French Open stringing grounds, where a total of 4,467 rackets are strung for the players by 19 stringers from 11 countries on 17 different stringing machines. A behind the ...

Whipping his racquet through the air like a cesta in jai alai, Rafael Nadal produces such tremendous topspin that the ball sometimes seems to catapult off the court, creating a shot as challenging to ...

For the past 15 years Solinco Sports has placed a focus on tennis strings. The global success in the space has seen Solinco strings in the rackets of multiple major champions—quite often incognito—and ...

Three decades in tennis have left Chuck Hakansson's hands covered with "callouses on top of callouses." His rough, working man's hands aren't the result of topspin forehands, drop shots and overhead ...

Professional tennis players call it “the Luxilon shot,” and, apparently, you can hear it coming. The ball crosses the net hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal ...