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

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 ...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — You can get everything you want these days with an on-demand subscription: music, movies, food, drinks, clothing. Now you can add freshly strung racquets to the list. Stringbox is ...

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 ...

Every day at the U.S. Open, Serena and Venus Williams will walk out to either a practice court or a match with six racquets in their respective bags. They might use two of them. After every use, they ...

Last Tuesday morning, on the second day of the U.S. Open, Nate Ferguson and Ron Yu were in Yu’s hotel room, on the East Side of Manhattan. Ferguson was seated on the edge of one of two double beds, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and shoe tech. So much is made about the technology of tennis rackets. But don't ...

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 ...