Solinco's new tennis rackets aim for the same success as the brand's tennis strings. Solinco "We have had a lot of strategy meetings and listed 100 different names," he says.

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 ...

In 2009 its global sales for rackets, strings, shoes, apparel and accessories reached $150 million. U.S. sales are up 40% from last year. And that’s in a terrible tennis economy.

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 ...

The dedicated workers at the US Open who string rackets, sometimes for 18 hours a day, rarely hear about it when things go right, and they do all they can to make sure things don't go wrong.

Meet the man who strings Roger Federer's rackets 04:40. By the time Roger Federer steps onto a tennis court, it's already been a long day for Ron Yu. For the last 15 years, in nondescript hotel ...

The Babolat company, which originally made strings for musical instruments, was the first to invent strings for tennis rackets, in 1875. It moved into racket production only in 1994.

At the beginning of the decade, a German horticulturalist, Werner Fischer, invented the “spaghetti” racket, using a bizarre string configuration that imparted massive spin on the ball.

The dedicated workers at the US Open who string rackets, sometimes for 18 hours a day, rarely hear about it when things go right, and they do all they can to make sure things don't go wrong.

The dedicated workers at the US Open who string rackets, sometimes for 18 hours a day, rarely hear about it when things go right, and they do all they can to make sure things don't go wrong.