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 ...
Australian Open racket stringers work behind the scenes at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Photograph: Charlie Kinross/The Guardian There would be no Australian Open were it not for the work undertaken ...