George and Dee Tompkins met in a tennis/ski shop on a day when neither was supposed to be there. Dee Tompkins should have been at work, but had gone to a job interview instead, and then she planned to ...

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 ...

With recreational and professional players testing the limits of what’s possible on a tennis court, their equipment needs to be up to the challenge. The last decade saw racquets, strings and shoes all ...

The BBC's Dave Lee looks at developments in tennis technology When it came to technology, William Hester was a pretty relaxed kind of guy. The man known affectionately as Slew was asked in the late ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As purse strings draw tighter in the global economic crisis, veteran racquet stringers have felt the pinch ahead of the Australian Open ...

That’s the common request for most recreational players when it comes time to restring their racquets. That is, of course, if they’re bothering to restring their racquets at all. String neglect is one ...

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 ...

When it came to technology, William Hester was a pretty relaxed kind of guy. The man known affectionately as Slew was asked in the late 1970s about the changes in the equipment used to play tennis. He ...

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