The NZ Herald profiled Rubin Statham while he was still playing professionally. The piece links the cost of frequent restringing, which weighs most on players outside the top 100, to the idea of a machine a player could carry between tournaments.
The problem behind the idea
According to the Herald, Rubin began working with a Korean tennis fan he met by chance at a tournament, who happened to be an electronics engineer. The pair spent four years developing the concept before taking it to market in 2011.
Read it as history
This is archive coverage. Rankings, model details and any prices in the report describe its publication period and are not current specifications.
From the archive to today’s setup
Read the Pro Stringer story for the company background. Pro Stringer’s current range starts with CybeX, a digital machine that strings tennis, badminton and squash racquets, and Platinum 3.0, which is sold as sport-specific models. The Learning Center shows what owning and using each machine involves.
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