— -- 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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jarrad Magee was about halfway through his 18-hour shift stringing rackets to the exacting specs of the U.S. Open's top players this week when he looked up at the TV and saw ...

If you've been watching the US Open, you know players put their rackets to the test every match. (I'm looking at you, Nick Kyrgios!) And while it seems that rackets can be replaced instantly, the ...