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 ...

Today, natural gut strings — the strands of sterilized cow entrails once used by most professionals — have all but disappeared from pro tennis. At this year’s French Open beginning May 24 ...

Tennis players, from recreational to professional, are very particular about their strings. Some, including Roger Federer, will not string their racket with just one string, but two.

From signature strings to on-court style: Inside our Father's Day tennis gift guide Apparel, gear, gadgets and other great ideas for the tennis-playing dad in your life. By Jon Levey ...

The first tennis strings, created in 1875, were formed from sheep intestine. While Babolat—now a tennis company—still creates natural gut string from its Lyon, France, facility, the tide has ...

A University of Colorado Boulder alum created what he says is the world’s first-ever 100% synthetic, biodegradable tennis string through his Boulder-based company Velociti.

Babolat Tennis Rackets: String TheoryThe leveraging wasn’t as vital once a 16-year-old junior named Andy Roddick picked up the stick at the suggestion of his coach; he became No. 1 in the world ...