It’s an old cliché, but that doesn’t make it any less true: Your strings are the only thing that touches the ball. Racquets get the spotlight, but when it comes to the hitting experience, strings are ...

Jon Levey answers your Gear Q&A. Email your question to [email protected]. I thought only old-timers or players with tennis elbow still played with gut strings, but I recently heard that pro ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and sneaker tech. For the past 15 years Solinco Sports has placed a focus on ...

George and Dee Tompkins met in a tennis/ski shop on a day when neither was supposed to be there. Dee Tompkins should have been at work, but had gone to a job interview instead, and then she planned to ...

A historical look at natural gut strings for tennis rackets, how they changed the style of the game and why they are still used in professional tennis today. The history of natural gut strings and why ...