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‘It was cool, I fell asleep’: inside Wimbledon’s £128,000 new sci-fi recovery chamber

Tommy Paul and world’s best hope to prolong career with therapy, which claims to ‘rejuvenate body, mind and spirit’Before his first-round match at Wimbledon, the US No 21 seed Tommy Paul stepped into the All England Club’s new recovery suite and laid down on a strange zigzag-shaped bed.At that point, hydrogen gas was pumped through Paul’s nostrils and his body experienced multiwave light, pulsed electromagnetic and sound therapy – all from a £128,000 futuristic device called the Ammortal Chamber, which claims to be “the fastest way to reset, recharge and rejuvenate the body, mind and spirit”. Continue reading...

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Spare us from inane pre- and post-match interviews at Wimbledon | Brief letters

Tennis players’ media duties | Train services | HS2 | Night-time | Bad BunnyI’m sure I’m not the only one saddened at the news that the top tennis players have decided not to continue their protest over prize money and have agreed to carry out their media duties during Wimbledon in full (29 June). I had hoped they could be persuaded to institute a complete ban, rather than the partial one originally threatened, and thus spare us from inane and unrevealing pre- and post-match interviews.Peter BoltonStoke-on-Trent• I recently travelled on an Avanti West Coast train from Manchester to London. Approaching Euston, there were announcements about gathering up belongings etc, but one stated: “We have pickpockets operating at this station.” Is it not bad enough that train companies overcharge us for an inadequate service without employing people to rob us when we get off?Iain BannermanAltrincham, Greater Manchester Continue reading...

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