Grand Slam Tennis Stringer Julian Li shares behind the scenes stories of Federer, Hingis, Nadal and Slam stringing!

Julian Li is a professional stringer that has been on staff at 30 Grand Slam tournaments and put in thousands of hours stringing racquets for a majority of Tennis Pros that have played at the grand slam level.

Named Stringer of the year in 2015, he is also the owner of Apex Racquet Werks his new tennis store in LaVerne, CA where he is an asset to the southern cal tennis scene. Many in the SoCal know Julian for his store in Arcadia Racquets Rackets which was opened in the 90s and is now run by his brother John.

In the interview Julian shares some great stories about sharing an iPad with Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal’s attitude on tennis stringing, taking a picture with a young unknown Martina Hingis and shares a lot of behind the scenes tournament knowledge from the professional stringer perspective.

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