Richard Pagliaro | @tennisnow | Thursday, July 10, 2025
Photo source: Babolat
Wimbledon’s busiest team didn’t operate in court and didn’t need the ball to achieve the magic.
The most active team in the tournament worked very short in a narrow room from Aorangi Park’s driving range.
The Babolat String team is a team of about 24 highly skilled and experienced stringers, which is behind the scenes and is essential for playing the best rackets in Wimbledon.
Babolat Last week, tennis now took a guided tour at Wimbledon.
A frame photo of Bjorn Borg hung on the wall overlooking the vertical beams of busy restricting rackets as Babolat’s racket service manager, Frenchman Eric Ferrazzi, From the moment the player rolls off the racket to the moment the finished racket, we start the whole process.
“It’s a little quiet now,” Ferrazi said with a smile. “But continue [opening] Monday, it was buzzing. We limited 600 rackets on the first Monday.
“We are here at 8 a.m. until the last game of the evening, when and when.”
Even in the middle of our visit to the Babolat Racket Service, the site was jumping. Eric Ferrazzi briefly paused our interview, answering several questions from Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, who gave up on her Wilson blade to limit it. Babolat Strings all rackets regardless of brand, and there are every professional racket mold on the back wall (even for brands like Solinco), so the longitudinal beams can add each brand’s unique logo to the string bed once they are finished.
Despite the constant activity, Ferrazzi and his team were still calm in seemingly chaotic situations. This is because the process itself is computerized and simplified.
Players – or their coach – can participate in racket service and put down sticks. The receptionist enters all information immediately (player name, racket type, string type, and tension). This information is printed out and wrapped around each racket handle. So when Stringer receives the racket, he or she first deletes the computer printout containing all the relevant information before starting the string job.
“He knows, from reading the print, what strings to use, what tension to rope and when the racket is needed,” Ferrazzi tells us. “So, on this racket, players want natural guts in the carriage, while on the polyester cluster on the cross.”
“Each racket takes 15 to 20 minutes. They can be done in less time. Honestly, what we want is consistency. So if you are strung between 15 to 20 minutes, you can satisfy that consistency all day.
“We don’t want them to rush to catch it, so I don’t want my stringer to be done in less than 15 minutes because quality control is very important.”
In 1875, Babolat invented the first tennis strings, two years later competing in the first Wimbledon competition.
Babolat became Wimbledon’s official racket string in 2022.
Serial for players in the game is a team event.
If you look Emma Raducanu Wimbledon matches You may have noticed that she sent rackets to limit in the previous few games. Ferrazzi explains that this is because grass is a living Grand Slam environment that can change conditions based on temperature, humidity, daytime or night games, and of course the speed of the opponent.
“Yes, Raducanu and Sabalenka sent the racket back to the limit during the game.” “They informed the referee they wanted to referee, they wanted to limit the racket, and the chairman referee would give the racket to the racket the ball boy brought to us while conveying the mirror image to us.
“This gives us time to create labels for work while the racket comes to us.”
Every year in Wimbledon, a three locations composed of international Babolat Strimers (Aorangi, Roehampton and Raynes Park) strung together nearly 6,000 rackets, consisting of a team of Babolat Strigners working with all players in all events, including doubles, mixed doubles and wheelchair tennis, “Every player’s perserence operation of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress of erress
The main rally in the opening two days was the busiest in Bablat.
“Because the game started on the outside court at 11 a.m., we had 16 courts, and later the Central Court and Court No. 1,” Ferrazi said. “So we will have 32 players asking the racquets to start the game. Sometimes it’s eight racquets, sometimes it’s two racquets, but we need to be precise and clear and make sure they’re ready for them at 11 a.m..”
For professionals who mix gut and polyester, Ferrazi says that gut placement is crucial.
“If you let it go [gut] In the main power supply, you have more bags, if you put it in a cross, the strings move more, you can go back for more buttons,” Ferrazzi said. “Personally, I prefer the gut, but it’s purely a personal choice, and every player has their own preferences. ”
Although the Babolat stringer can do some customization for its players, most players have customized the frame and requested string assignments, although some people will also ask for a re-cut.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz added a small piece of lead tape to his Bablatt frame this season. Alcaraz said at the coach’s urging that Alcaraz turned to “more flexible” strings and added a little weight, “so he won’t damage his arms,” Ferrazi said.
“this [added] Weight can help players because it reduces vibrations,” Ferrazzi said. “The sound of vibration dampers does not actually reduce vibrations, which is a misunderstanding. So your friend’s weight is your friend and your gut is your friend’s save arms. ”
During the two-week match and qualifying round, the Babolat strings will be limited to approximately 6,188 rackets with a string of 74,256 meters and serve more than 724 players, coaches and staff.
As we left the Babolat racket service, we almost walked into Andrey Rublev, who dropped his stick himself.
After a very useful tour, the sound of the stringer is hard to reverberate in your ears.
