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We’re talking about the ball boys and ball girls (or BBGs as they're known in SW19). The tradition at Wimbledon started in the 1920s, when young boys would be recruited to assist matches from ...
Pressurised air inside the rubber core makes the ball bounce. Balls which haven't got enough pressure inside make a thud when they hit the floor. These are called dead balls. For the first Wimbledon ...
Who would have thought that Roger Federer would attend the Wimbledon Champions Ball for an eighth time? The 35-year-old showed up in style alongside his wife Mirka and the women's champion ...
Yesterday, he even dedicated a special celebration to her, who is learning a new activity. Djokovic is participating in the Wimbledon Championships ... dad smashing the ball against Popyrin!
Wimbledon’s team of ball boys and girls (BBGs - note: not ‘ball kids’...) are the unsung heroes of the tennis world. These mysterious, attentive beings, carefully plucked from a pool of 250 ...
Sport Academy: Why did you want to be a ball boy? Dermot: My sister did it, so I've always wanted to as well. Two free weeks at Wimbledon ain't a bad reason! Plus we're missing all the assessments at ...
Her outing at Wimbledon came just weeks after she joined the royal family at Trooping the Colour, the annual celebration of King Charles' birthday, in her first outing since revealing her diagnosis.
and that change in the grass has affected how the ball behaves, which further impacts strategy. Below, we collected images from match point of various Wimbledon finals over the past 50 years to ...