He holds his hands alongside one another. His right hand is slightly bigger than the other and gnarled with callouses erupting from the knuckles. His ragged finger tips look more like those of a bad ...

He was once a stringer of rackets outside sports shops. Today, he not only runs a chain of sports stores, he has his own brand of rackets and stringing machines. It has been a remarkable turnaround ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

QUEENS, N.Y. - It's an elite team with international members. You have to be meticulous, consistent and most of all, fast. No, not the tennis players. We're talking about the racket stringers. "It ...

Handwork to manual and now electronic stringing machine of tennis racquets – Awaghade family from Pune have seen these transformations of stringing tennis racquet closely.For them, it is their bread ...

AS LOOSE strings dangle in every direction over the bare racquet, stringer Stewart Allwright in one moment of precision pulls on the cows-guts fibre that would make a finely tuned orchestra proud.

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 ...

Head to the practice court area at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, home to the Wimbledon tennis championships, go down an alleyway beyond the warm-up room and the crèche, and you’ll find a small ...