Whipping his racquet through the air like a cesta in jai alai, Rafael Nadal produces such tremendous topspin that the ball sometimes seems to catapult off the court, creating a shot as challenging to ...

Professional tennis players call it “the Luxilon shot,” and, apparently, you can hear it coming. The ball crosses the net hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal ...

The Boulder-based tennis company Velociti has launched a second biodegradable tennis string for beginners after the success of its first professional-grade string. Velociti was founded by University ...

Genie Bouchard, the former tennis star who’s now carving out a new lane in pickleball, knows how to keep all eyes on her.

Adam Hunter's calloused fingers glide the string into the small holes of the tennis racket, which he places in the sleek stringing machine, adjusting the tension just so. Then the weaving begins.

In a little-known curtained workspace next to Sobey’s Stadium, behind the scenes of Canada’s biggest pro tennis tournament, a team of stringers work around the clock to ensure players’ racquets are ...

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 most of ...

Former professional tennis player Eugenie Bouchard flaunted her enviably fit physique, sunbathing in a teeny string bikini ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Books about sport can be sorted into two piles. There are books in which sport is a way of understanding who we are: the complexion of ...

Genie Bouchard, the former tennis star who’s now carving out a new lane in pickleball, knows how to keep all eyes on her.