THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB, LONDON — On the first day of Wimbledon, Ed Day, a university student from just outside London, ran 17.5 kilometers across the All England Club. Those kilometers took him from the ...
Professional players are an exacting bunch. Many come to a match with enough freshly-strung racquets that they can switch to a new one at every ball change. Or, they might have frames strung at ...
Professional tennis players call it “the Luxilon shot,” and, apparently, you can hear it coming. The ball crosses the net hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal ...
Andrey Rublev’s second thought was to smash his tennis racket. His first thought? Protecting the Wimbledon grass. In a press conference after his 4-6, 7-5, 2-6, 6-7 defeat to world No 122 Francisco ...
An ace piece of Carlos Alcaraz’s tennis legacy is up for ... sticker from Wimbledon denoting a string tension of 25 kg in the mains and 23 kg in the crosses. It also bears Alcaraz’s signature on the ...
The world No. 1 had hurled her racket in frustration toward the end of her semifinal defeat to Jessica Pegula of the U.S.