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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 ...
The Frenchman marked his victory by sending a ball flying into the crowd but it ... dropped a brutal comment after witnessing the awkward celebration. Fils is through to the third round of the ...
Wimbledon will continue to use the terms 'ball boy' and 'ball girl' this year Other Grand Slams have turned to generic 'ball kid' and 'ball crew' labels Fans praised Wimbledon's decision but ...
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 ...
It wasn’t, when it started, an important tennis match: John Isner, the 23rd seed, was facing Frenchman Nicolas Mahut in the first round at Wimbledon ... nearly as high in celebration.