During Wimbledon 2018, 4503 (!) rackets were restrung! Read this and many more fun facts in the Wimbledon 2018 restringing statistics below.
In recent years, restringing records have been broken at almost every Grand Slam, and Wimbledon 2018 was no exception. Partly due to the hot weather, more rackets were restrung than ever before.
Some highlights:
- Total rackets restrung: 4503 rackets were restrung by 19 stringers, an increase of over 12% compared to 2017.
- Busiest day: Monday, July 2, 2018, with 465 rackets.
- Player with the most rackets restrung: Rafael Nadal, with 67 restrings.
- Restringing stations: 14 Babolat Racket Stations and 1 Babolat Sensor machine were used, which had also been deployed at Roland Garros.
Lowest and highest tension
- Lowest tension: Canadian doubles specialist Daniel Nestor played with a tension of 14/12 kg, a combination of Wilson Natural Gut and Luxilon Timo.
- Highest tension: German player Dustin Brown used a tension of 36/36 kg with Luxilon Original Rough in his Babolat Pure Drive.
A total of 680 players were served: 316 men, 250 women, 58 boys, and 56 girls. Of these players, 237 used a hybrid stringing (different length and width strings).
Top 10 most used strings
- Luxilon Alu Power
- Babolat RPM Blast
- Babolat VS Touch (gut)
- Yonex Poly Tour Pro
- Luxilon 4G
- Babolat VS Team (gut)
- Luxilon Alu Power Rough
- Solinco Tour Bite
- Luxilon Original
- Wilson Natural Gut (gut)
Source: ERSA Pro Stringer Magazine, Issue 6, 2018.
These interesting statistics give a good picture of how important and intensive restringing is at a major tournament like Wimbledon!
