Wimbledon diary: Sinner’s mental metrics, elite queuing and gin-scented candles

Patience is required to do anything, except restringing rackets, while data gathering has gone to a new levelWhile thousands of fans shuffle around the grounds and soak up Wimbledon’s familiar mood of British unflappability, behind the scenes there is a hive of activity to keep the show on the road. Nowhere more so than at the restringing facility, which processed a record 6,565 rackets at last year’s tournament – an average of nearly 500 per day. “The balls change slight