They restring up to 60 racquets a day—and sometimes in just 10 minutes mid-match. Meet the team keeping the pros match-ready ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tennis is such a simple game. There is a racket, a felt-covered ball, a net and a court. Compared to golf, with its ever- changing menu of high-power drivers ...
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 ...
Australian Open racket stringers work behind the scenes at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Photograph: Charlie Kinross/The Guardian There would be no Australian Open were it not for the work undertaken ...
Behind the glitz and glamour of the U.S. Open, 16 strangers from around the globe are busily stringing tennis rackets for the top players in the world in a crowded room at the Billie Jean King Tennis ...
Three names sell tennis rackets: Rafa, Roger and Roddick. Walk around the U.S. Open this year and you’ll notice the topspin-wielding heartthrob and world No. 1 Rafael Nadal playing with one of the ...