Wimbledon tennis balls, meal stipends, and what happens when the fortnight falls during the wrong time of the month.
Wimbledon uses 55,000 tennis balls a year
Players at Wimbledon punish these optic yellow Slazengers with such ferocity that the balls have to be replaced several times per match. Over the course of two weeks, Wimbledon goes through 55,000 balls, including the 1,700 per day delivered to the practice courts in unopened cans. Full Story: The Los Angeles Times
Wimbledon asks tennis stars not to max out their $108-a-day restaurant budget
In an email sent to players, the tournament’s organizer — the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club — asked players to be “judicious” about what they took. Players are granted $108 a day to spend on food and drink from concessionaires on the grounds. Some players and coaches have been treating that stipend as a target, rather than a limit, stocking up on food to max out their allowance. Full Story: Business Insider
Doubles Tennis Is Wimbledon’s Best Kept (and Most Fun) Secret
If your only exposure to tennis’s Grand Slam events is through television or even most media reports, you might think singles is all that matters. It breathes in nearly all of the oxygen. Doubles remains tennis’s hidden gem. Full Story: The New York Times
Scenes From On and Off the Court at Wimbledon 2022
Photographer Jonathan Daniel Pryce was on hand to capture the behind-the-scenes goings-on at the All England Club. Full Story: Vogue
Coaching is the Most Curious and Fraught Job in Tennis
Coaches in tennis have one of the odder existences in sports. Some players go for long periods without even using one, and others change coaches like socks. Full Story: The New York Times
‘You can’t be the player’s friend’: inside the secret world of tennis umpires
New technology was supposed to make umpiring easy. It hasn’t worked out that way. Full Story: The Guardian
What happens when Wimbledon comes at the wrong time of the month
I appreciate the open and honest insight shared by Daria Saville, Alicia Barnet, and other players in two articles about coping tactics when Wimbledon comes at the wrong time of the month. Full Stories: The Daily Mail, Bloomberg
The graceful elegance of On Jabeur…
… and the graceful elegance of Prince William.
This Week in Professional Tennis
| Date | Tournament | Tour/Level | Location |
| 7/11-17 | Infosys Hall of Fame Open | ATP 250 | Newport, Rhode Island |
| 7/11-17 | Nordea Open | ATP 250 | Bastad, Sweden |
| 7/11-17 | Ladies Open Lausanne | WTA 250 | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 7/11-17 | Hungarian Grand Prix | WTA 250 | Budapest, Hungary |
In the UK balls of all varieties, Slazenger, Dunlop, Wilson etc are sold in tubes/cans of four and yet in the USA balls are sold in threes. I am old enough to remember boxes of six or four white balls and they were kept in a large cooler at the side of the court.
I guess pressurised balls do not need to be chilled!