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At the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, the Olympic tennis competitions run from July 27th to August 4th. While the athletes compete on the courts, Zhao Jingsheng, a dedicated tennis stringer from Jiangmen, Guangdong, finds himself incredibly busy. Zhao strings a racquet before the Olympic tennis match. Zhao is a YONEX S1 certified tennis stringer. Along with 10 other stringers from Japan, the USA, the UK, Austria, and Brazil, he provides racquet modifications for the Paris Olympics. The contribution of a stringer often goes unnoticed while the players shine on the court. A racquet that is responsive to a player's individual needs can significantly improve their performance. The athletes are very sensitive to the string tensions and will ask for them to be adjusted according to the temperatures, humidity, and even the opponent on the day of competition, and all of these factors require the professional expertise of a stringer to address. Stringing is a physically demanding task. To ensure
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