If you play tennis, you know that racquet strings have to be replaced occasionally because they break or become too loose. But if you're on the men's pro tour, how well it's done can be the difference ...

— -- NEW YORK -- Dustin Tankersley remembers this clearly. It was 2013 and he was a sleep-deprived US Open racket stringer, standing 18-hour days for nearly three weeks straight. It was late and ...

MASON, OH − During the qualifying rounds of the Cincinnati Open, one WTA player sent her racquets to the stringing room to be re-strung. Simple enough, right? The only problem? It was during her match ...

NEW HAVEN >> Chris Gaudreau abruptly stops telling his story about Venus Williams mid-sentence and gets to work. “OK, here we go,” he says, spotting a ball boy walking a racket up the stairs into his ...

Tennis players are a sensitive bunch, and people like Ron Rocchi are forever trying to soothe them. Rocchi, an equipment manager at Wilson, runs the racket stringing shop at this year’s U.S. Open. Its ...

MASON, Ohio (WKRC) - The professional stringers at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason are keeping the tennis racquets in tip-top shape as the tennis world focuses on the Cincinnati Open. Local ...

Fans will pack into the US Open again this week to see which one of the world’s best players will win the championship. Behind those players are a team of talented people whose work often goes ...

In their first full year on tour, New Zealander Rubin Statham and his twin brother, Oliver, spent $16,000 on racquet stringing. In their second year, they bought their own (supposedly) lightweight ...

MATCH POINT: No. 4 seed Andrey Rublev falls to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in Barcelona During the first sit-down changeover of the Thursday's second-round match between Alejandro Davidovich Fokina ...