— -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you've been watching the US Open, you know players put their rackets to the test every match. (I'm looking at you, Nick Kyrgios!) And while it seems that rackets can be replaced instantly, the ...

QUEENS, N.Y. - It's an elite team with international members. You have to be meticulous, consistent and most of all, fast. No, not the tennis players. We're talking about the racket stringers. "It ...

Jane McManus (follow her @janesports on Twitter) has covered sports since 1998 and began covering football just before Brett Favre's stint with the Jets. Her work has appeared in Newsday, USA Today, ...