Technical team from Babolat keeps Wimbledon strings in tune
Tennis equipment manufacturer Babolat has a team of more than 20 technicians and 16 special machines at the 2023 Wimbledon tennis tournament in London, which began on July 3. The French company is the tournament’s official stringing partner.
Babolat has a stand at Wimbledon equipped with 16 mobile stringing machines. It makes the machines at its factory in Besançon, calling the model the Evolution Tour.
It said that in the early part of the tournament, with a large number of matches, its technicians would combine to string almost 500 rackets per day.