Official Stringer Jarrad Magee works on a tennis racket in the stringing room at the U.S. Open tennis tournament. Getting the optimum tension means getting the string job done as close to match time as possible. She, too, has changed up her tension demands to the U.S. Open shop to adjust for slightly cooler weather. “But every match I string it.” The ultimate request is the “on-court” job, stringing’s equivalent of an emergency room code blue. Tankersley remembers a few years ago when Rafael Nadal dropped off his racquets and then walked into the stringing room.

Source: thestar September 01, 2017 16:15 UTC