Walk between No.1 Court and the Aorangi practice courts, and the real work of Wimbledon never stops. Paul Skipp strings as he speaks, and if you mention that he’s inserting a small screwdriver into a ...

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 ...

Tennis players rarely break strings anymore, but they still want their rackets to be given a fresh set. By Lola Fadulu Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll look at the people who string rackets at ...

For two weeks of the year, Darren Powell, co-owner of Wimbledon Park Sports in Wimbledon, south-west London, sells towels. Towel upon towel upon towel. Around 2,500 of them, by his estimation. In late ...

On Tuesday, I went to the US Open, the premier US tennis tournament and, along with Wimbledon and the Australian and French Opens, one of the four ‘Grand Slams’ of the tennis world. I’m also a player ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and shoe tech. Solinco, a well-known string maker but relative newcomer to ...

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 ...

With the tennis season in full swing, we look at seven of the best rackets now on the market - from affordable options for the novice player to powerful and high-end weapons for the competitive ...

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 ...