By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennisnow | Thursday, July 10, 2025
Photo Credit: Babolat
The most busy team in Wimbledon does not work in court – and never needs a ball to make magic happen.
The most active championship team works in a narrow room with a short lobster from the practice courts in Aorangi Park.
String Babolat team-a team of about 24 very skilled and extremely experienced stringers-are back-to-core players for good breeding with which you see the benefits they play in Wimbledon.
grandad Tennis now gave a tournament guided in his string operation in Wimbledon last week.
An adapted photo of Bjorn Borg hangs on the wall overlooking stringers that are busy with limiting breeds as manager of breeds of babolat, French Eric Ferrazzi, It traversed the process from the moment a player releases Racuet through the string until the finished rocket was handed over to the Babola runners who attract the door with the new race by spraying in court to hand over to the player in need.
“Now it’s a little quiet,” says Ferrazzi with a smile. “But in (opening) on Monday, it’s buzzing. We contain 600 breeds on the first Monday.
“We’re here at 8am until the last game of the evening whenever it may be.”
Even on the middle Saturday when we visited Babolat breed services, the site was jumping. Eric Ferrazzi briefly banned our interview to answer some questions from Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil, who removed her Wilson blade for restriction. Babolas Strings All racquets regardless of brand and has any professional racquet stencil – even for brands like solinco – on the back wall so that stringers can add the unique logo of each brand to the string bed after completion.
Despite the non -stop activity, both Ferrazzi and his team are calm in the midst of what may seem chaos. This is because the process itself is computerized and simplified.
Players – or their coaches – can come to breed services and remove their sticks. The hosts immediately enter all the information – the player’s name, the type of race, the type of string and the voltage – on a computer. This information is printed and wrapped in each handle racquet. So when Stringer gets racuet, he or she first removes computer printing that contains all the relevant information before starting the string work.
“He knows, from reading the printing, what trouble to use, what tension to string and when exactly the racquet is needed,” Ferrazzi tells us. “So with this rocket, for example, the player wants the natural gut in the network and polyester on the cross.”
“It takes 15-20 minutes to shake every rocket. They can do it in less time. What we are looking for, to be honest, is consistency.
“We don’t want them to rush it, so I don’t want my straps to make it in less than 15 minutes because quality control is very important.”
In 1875 Babola invented the first string of tennis – two years after the inaugural Wimbledon was opposed.
Babola became the official Wimbledon races service in 2022.
Stringing for players during the matches is really a team event.
If you have seen Emma Radanu’s Wimbledon matches you may have noticed that she sent rockets within the first few matches for the limitation. Ferrazzi explains that this is because the grass is a large living environment, where conditions can change based on factors, including heat, humidity, whether it is a daily or night match and of course the opponent’s rhythm.
“Yes Raducanu and also Sabalenka sent racats again for restriction during their matches,” Ferrazzi said. “They let the chair want Racquet to restrain and the chair lawyer will give RacQuet the ball boy to bring us to us as they communicate with our races on their way.
“It gives us the time to create the label for work while the race is coming to us.”
Yeardo year in Wimbledon, about 6,000 breeds are located on three sites (Aorangi, Roehampton and Raynes Park) by an international team of Stringers Babolat, working accurately and coordinating for all players in all events, including double, mixed doubles and Tennis with wheels, “
Opening the two days of the main draw game are Babolat’s most loaded.
“Because the game starts at 11am in the foreign courts, so we have 16 courts in the game, plus the later court of the center and court number 1,” says Ferrazzi. “So we will have 32 players looking for breeds to start the game. Sometimes there are eight breeds, sometimes there are two breeds, but we have to be accurate and clear and make sure they are ready at 11am for them.”
For the benefits that mix the intestine and polyester, Ferrazzi says the intestinal placement is primary.
“If you put (the intestine) on the grid, you have more pocket, if you put it on the cross, the string moves more and you have more turning back,” says Ferrazzi. “Personally, I prefer the intestine in the main network, but it’s just a personal choice and each player has its own preference.”
Although Babola Stringers can make a personalization for her players, most players have already adapted the frame and seeking work in the range, though some will also require regret.
The reigning champion twice Wimbledon Carlos Alcaraz famously added a small piece of lead tape to his Babolat frame this season. Ferrazzi said at the encouragement of his coach, formerly -world no. 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero, Alcaraz passed into the “more flexible” wire and added that weight so he would not hurt his arm, “Ferrazzi says.
“Weight (added) can help players because it can reduce vibration,” Ferrazzi says. “The vibration dampner is for the sound that actually does not reduce vibration – this is a wrong concept. So the weight is your friend and the gut is your friend when it comes to preserving your arm.”
During the course of the two-week tournament and the qualifying tournament, Babolat Stringers will limit about 6,188 breeds, using 74,256 meters of range and will serve more than 724 players, coaches and staff.
As we leave the Racquet Babolat service, we ready immediately to Andrey Rublev, who is giving up his sticks in person.
The sound of hard at work echoes in your ears after a very informative tour.
