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 ...

THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB, LONDON — On the first day of Wimbledon, Ed Day, a university student from just outside London, ran 17.5 kilometers across the All England Club. Those kilometers took him from the ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and shoe tech. Solinco, a well-known string maker but relative newcomer to ...

Whipping his racquet through the air like a cesta in jai alai, Rafael Nadal produces such tremendous topspin that the ball sometimes seems to catapult off the court, creating a shot as challenging to ...

Behind the scenes at the French Open stringing grounds, where a total of 4,467 rackets are strung for the players by 19 stringers from 11 countries on 17 different stringing machines. A behind the ...

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, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A University of Colorado Boulder alum created what he says is the world’s first-ever 100% synthetic, biodegradable tennis string through his Boulder-based ...

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 ...