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From retirement fears to triumphant Wimbledon return for GB's Swan

Katie Swan gets her "full-circle moment" at Wimbledon, two years after considering retiring from tennis because of a persistent back injury.

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Wimbledon diary: Sinner’s mental metrics, elite queuing and gin-scented candles

Patience is required to do anything, except restringing rackets, while data gathering has gone to a new levelWhile thousands of fans shuffle around the grounds and soak up Wimbledon’s familiar mood of British unflappability, behind the scenes there is a hive of activity to keep the show on the road. Nowhere more so than at the restringing facility, which processed a record 6,565 rackets at last year’s tournament – an average of nearly 500 per day. “The balls change slightly every year,” says Josh Sillick, on the stall run by the tournament’s official “restringing partner” Babolat. “If they get fluffier more quickly, then the players have to hit them harder, and heat can potentially make a difference too. When a player breaks a string, they can hand it over [to a ball boy or ball girl] and they’ll run over to get it restrung, and they can get it done in 10 or 15 minutes.” Continue reading...

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