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 ...

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In a little-known curtained workspace next to Sobey’s Stadium, behind the scenes of Canada’s biggest pro tennis tournament, a team of stringers work around the clock to ensure players’ racquets are ...

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 ...

“I still string for Mount Tabor’s coach Taylor McDaniel so we try to help anybody who needs to get racquets worked on,” Yamane said. While his hobby of stringing racquets has taken him to two Grand ...

Ron Kohn is the leader of the team of 15 tennis racquet stringers working at the Australian Open.(Timothy Marshall) Ron Kohn believes there are only 20 guys in the world who are good enough for a ...

The modern U.S. Open tennis player is a master of racquet minutiae. In pursuit of the tiniest advantage, tennis stars tinker with their racquet's weight, balance, string properties and handle size.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When it comes to tennis racquet strings, natural fibres are the duck's guts. Or rather the cow's guts, given that's where many of the ...

Behind the scenes with the people who make sure the players' racquets are are just they way they like them Professional racquet stringers face plenty of pressure serving the world's elite players ...