News & Press

7 Sept 2008	World number 1 doubles pair, Liezel Huber (sponsored by TopServe) and Cara Black take out US Open Doubles. NEW YORK, NY, USA - Black and Huber have now won four Grand Slam titles together, following wins at Wimbledon in 2005 and at the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2007. It was also their 20th Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title together, a tally that includes wins earlier this year at Antwerp, Dubai, Berlin, Birmingham, Eastbourne, Stanford and Montréal. They had fallen earlier than expected in the first three Grand Slams of the year, in the quarterfinals of Australia (to the Bondarenko sisters) and in the semifinals of Roland Garros (to Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual) and Wimbledon (to Raymond and Stosur).
29 Aug 2008	Australian Open or US Open II ?? The Aussie Open losing its Aussie identity ...
1 Feb 2008	Blog and stringing stats from Australian Open 2008
22 Jan 2008	Telegraph.co.uk: "Daylight robbery at the Australian Open" ... "the opening match on Margaret Court Arena was enough to drive what few spectators there were in search of more exciting pursuits, such as standing outside a large window peering in at men in green uniforms re-stringing players' rackets." ...
18 Jan 2008	Cynthia Lum's Aussie Open blog on Tennislife.com "In a blue painted double portable unit set up just outside the media workroom, one of the most important services of the tournament takes place. Large windows allow fans to watch while a crew of 10 stringers and 5 support people representing 8 countries, string racquets belonging to the stars of the tennis world." ...
15 Jan 2008	ABC News: "Racquet stringers the other stars at Aus Open" **"The racquet stringing team at the Australian Open will string about 3000" ...**
May 2007	Tennis Warehouse interview by Chris Edwards with pro stringer Ron Kohn in the Tecnifibre stringing room at the 2007 French Open.
Feb 2007	Top Serve Tennis is relocating to a larger premises. We are moving just up the road to #24 ... the new premises is more than 4 times larger than our current shop. We will be very easy to find - the new shop is only 200m from our current shop, still on the same block, on the next corner (cnr. Milton Street) towards Parramatta Rd. The grand opening will be March 1.
Jan 2007	2754 frames strung at Australian Open 07. TopServe's Stringing Team strung a total of 2754 frames during the Australian Open. Amongst our highest quantity clients were Nikolay Davydenko with 41 restrings, Serena Williams with 33 and Martina Hingis with 31. Petr Krejci from Czech Republic once again topped the stringing count with 470, not quite reaching his 2006 record of 501.
Jul 2006	TST Stringing Team for Australian Open is announced. The team will comprise four Australians and six of the best Pro Tour Stringers / Master Racquet Technicians from around the world. The stringing team is Ron Kohn, Steve Harris, Stewart Allwright, Mike Newbound, all from Australia and Petr Krejci (Czech Republic), Mark Maslowski (Germany), Toru Yusuki (Japan), Luis Pianelli (Argentina), Lucian Costea (Canada) and support staff Dirk Van Haele (Belgium), Debbie Thomson, Mark Nissen and Anthony Aley all from Australia.
Mar 2006	Top Serve Tennis is reappointed as the Official Stringer for the Australian Open 2007 and 2008. We are proud to announce that our contract with the Australian Open has been extended until the 2008 Australian Open.
Nov 2005	Launch of topservetennis.com online shop Our new website is launched with a fully secure online shopping cart. Now our comprehensive range of products is available for purchase 24/7 world-wide.
Aug 2005	Launch of Precision 700 stringing machine - the machine for the Australian Summer Circuit. We have fast-tracked the development of our new Precision 700 (originally due to be released around March 2006) to be ready for the Australian Open and its preceding tournaments. The Precision 700 will be used for: - the Mondial Australian Womens Hardcourts, Gold Coast - the Next Generation Adelaide International - the Moorilla Hobart International - the AAMI Classic, Kooyong - the Australian Open The machines used at these tournaments will be available for sale at the end of the tournaments. Click here for details.
Jul 2005	Top Serve Tennis appointed as Official Stringer of AAMI Classic Kooyong Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Guillermo Coria, David Nalbandian, Tommy Haas and Ivan Ljubicic have committed to the 2006 event.
Jul 2005	Top Serve Tennis reappointed as the Official Stringer of the Mondial Australian Womens Hardcourts, Gold Coast. The start of the Aussie circuit and the start of the WTA season. This tournament would have to be the envy of all tournament stringers - friendly event, resort venue, and our allocated stringing room is definitely the best on the circuit ... a function hall at the resort!!
Jul 2005	Top Serve Tennis appointed as the Official Stringer of the Australian Open. Our team of 18 will consist of the best Master Racquet Technicians from around the world: USA, UK, Czech Republic, Japan and of course our best and most experienced Aussie MRTs.