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 ...
"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 ...
For the past 15 years Solinco Sports has placed a focus on tennis strings. The global success in the space has seen Solinco strings in the rackets of multiple major champions—quite often incognito—and ...
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 ...
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 ...