A team of STRI researchers, headed up by manager Mark Ferguson, has returned from the 2019 Wimbledon Championships.
STRI has worked with the AELTC for over fifty years, and in 1993 we conducted the first Championships survey; providing Wimbledon with surface performance data for hardness, volumetric soil moisture content, live grass cover, relative ball rebound, botanical composition and general court observations.
The surveys we have conducted over the last 26 years enable surface characteristics and playing quality to be compared over two decades of Championships.
Each year we conduct trials on behalf of the AELTC for the betterment of global and domestic tennis at STRI UK’s head office and research centre in Yorkshire. Trials focus on surfaces, grasses, soils, chemicals and fertilisers, and the results provide information for the future management of Championship Courts.
Take a look at our picture gallery below from the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, and join us for STRI Research 2019 to see the STRI’s UK trials ground for yourself. Click here to book your free place.
-
- Centre Court, Wimbledon
-
- Measuring surface hardness
-
- Carlos Sartoretto taking ball bounce readings as the crowds gather at Wimbledon
-
- Dan Dean counting live grass cover with a point quadrat
-
- Research manager, Mark Ferguson, interviewed for Danish TV
-
- STRI’s pre-championship week team, Dr Tom Young, Aaron Fawbert and Sam Swires
-
- Sam Swires measuring relative live grass cover taken with a chlorophyll meter and with NDVI
-
- Sam Swires and Aaron Fawbert end their first week stint at the Championships
-
- Mark and Carlos measuring relative ball rebound
-
- Carlos keeps people off the hallowed tuf
-
- Matt Clark measuring live grass cover
-
- Dr Tom Young takes surface moisture readings, measured with a Delta-T Theta probe
