"The 4:30 wakeup to start stringing tennis rackets is not the most pleasurable thing in the world," Yu said. The rackets Yu strings will be used in about six or seven hours, when the strings start to ...

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 ...

Three names sell tennis rackets: Rafa, Roger and Roddick. Walk around the U.S. Open this year and you’ll notice the topspin-wielding heartthrob and world No. 1 Rafael Nadal playing with one of the ...

When watching the pros at the U.S. Open hit with superhuman pace, it's natural to look for a shortcut to attain that kind of power. Most weekend hackers might focus on the racket, assuming that if ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and sneaker tech. For the past 15 years Solinco Sports has placed a focus on ...

Which Babolat tennis racket is best? Whether you’re an avid tennis player or just learning the sport, you need a quality racket. Tennis doesn’t require much equipment, but a racket can be costly, so ...

As the 2012 tennis season arrives in full flower this month with tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami, the game has settled into a new status quo that nobody could have predicted. All the recent ...

Walk between No.1 Court and the Aorangi practice courts, and the real work of Wimbledon never stops. Paul Skipp strings as he speaks, and if you mention that he’s inserting a small screwdriver into a ...