On the first day of Wimbledon, Ed Day, a university student from just outside London, ran 17.5 kilometers across the All ...

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 racket strings. Wilson tennis rackets have string patterns represented in a fraction, such as 16/19, meaning 19 horizontal strings accompany 16 vertical strings.

But the string world is quite varied. Nylon synthetic gut is still used, generally by beginners and on inexpensive rackets. Kevlar strings are also available.

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 official stringing team has up to 22 workers on the tournament’s busiest days, and together they will string around 7,000 rackets during the whole tournament, said Ron Rocchi, the global ...

Pro racket stringer Randy Gibson and his team strings more than 350 rackets for the U.S. Clay Court Championship at River Oaks Country Club. "In Houston, especially because it's clay court, ...

On an average, they string 10-12 rackets a day and during tournaments that daily count could touch 50. Around 80 per cent of the players bring their own strings and the Awaghades charge 100 INR as ...