Over the 3½ weeks from qualifying through the finals, their glass-enclosed shop near the players’ lounge becomes a factory floor. Getting the optimum tension means getting the string job done as close to match time as possible. “You end up stringing the same rackets over and over,” Magee says of the Sisyphean aspects of the job. “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 rackets and then walked into the stringing room.

Source: National Post September 01, 2017 13:18 UTC