At a shop in Queensway Shopping Centre, 22-year-old Mohamed Hashim Marecar has turned stringing racquets and serving ...
There would be no Australian Open were it not for the work undertaken in an unassuming underground room at Melbourne Park ...
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, ...
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 ...
Tennis players are a sensitive bunch, and people like Ron Rocchi are forever trying to soothe them. Rocchi, an equipment manager at Wilson, runs the racket stringing shop at this year’s U.S. Open. Its ...
NEW HAVEN >> Chris Gaudreau abruptly stops telling his story about Venus Williams mid-sentence and gets to work. “OK, here we go,” he says, spotting a ball boy walking a racket up the stairs into his ...
— -- NEW YORK -- Dustin Tankersley remembers this clearly. It was 2013 and he was a sleep-deprived US Open racket stringer, standing 18-hour days for nearly three weeks straight. It was late and ...
Behind the scenes of the world's most elite tennis tournaments there is a team of people working on keeping the majors' ...
A good racket is a must-have for any competitive tennis player. And there’s one person at the Hardee’s Pro Classic that all players rely on for equipment. From sun up to sun down, Chuck Hakansson is ...