He was once a stringer of rackets outside sports shops. Today, he not only runs a chain of sports stores, he has his own brand of rackets and stringing machines. It has been a remarkable turnaround ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

— -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Within Arthur Ashe Stadium at the U.S. Open, where the marquee players compete during the season’s final Grand Slam, another world-class group of tennis fanatics work tirelessly at their craft.

Pierre Reveilles, who carries a 70-pound machine on his bike, can often be found in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn. By Allie Conti Pierre Reveilles lives a relatively carefree life. “That’s part of who I ...