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 ...

Behind the scenes of the world's most elite tennis tournaments there is a team of people working on keeping the majors' ...

MASON, Ohio (WKRC) - The professional stringers at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason are keeping the tennis racquets in tip-top shape as the tennis world focuses on the Cincinnati Open. Local ...

Fans will pack into the US Open again this week to see which one of the world’s best players will win the championship. Behind those players are a team of talented people whose work often goes ...

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 ...

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 ...

In their first full year on tour, New Zealander Rubin Statham and his twin brother, Oliver, spent $16,000 on racquet stringing. In their second year, they bought their own (supposedly) lightweight ...