Tennis players rarely break strings anymore, but they still want their rackets to be given a fresh set. By Lola Fadulu Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at the people who string rackets at ...

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

From head to toe, Rick Suydam knows the game. Visors to shirts to shorts to shoes are all part of Suydam’s Racquet Koop. And of course there are rackets. Since Suydam bought the Racquet Koop tennis ...

"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 ...

Adam Queen's fingers nimbly slide across the empty face of the tennis racket. The hole in the frame quickly fills as Queen, with a surgeon's precision, guides a 40-foot piece of synthetic white string ...

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, ...

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 most of ...

NEW YORK -- Since 2004, Nate Ferguson's Priority One racket service has been stringing rackets on the road for Roger Federer. Ferguson, along with Ron Yu, travel to the biggest tournaments in the ...