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 ...

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 ...

MIAMI GARDENS, Florida — Daniil Medvedev had a problem. For the better part of five years, his career had followed an ever-upward arc that carried him to the No 1 ranking in February of 2022. Then ...

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 YORK (AP) — Jarrad Magee was about halfway through his 18-hour shift stringing rackets to the exacting specs of the U.S. Open's top players this week when he looked up at the TV and saw ...

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 ...

String jobs that would take the average stringer an hour are cranked out in 20 to 25 minutes, with rush jobs turned around in as little as 12. In the early rounds, when the draws are still flush with ...