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 ...

Lisle businessman Craig Lezatte wanted something that would stand out when he opened a sporting goods store earlier this year. So he bought a Babolat. The Babolat is a high-tech gizmo that restrings ...

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 ...

To lift a wooden tennis racket is to consider the paradoxes of progress. It weighs a ton, yet the face, the hitting area, is comically dainty. It looks ancient, even though wooden rackets were widely ...

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 ...