13/07/2026
Sinner defended his Wimbledon crown yesterday nearly four hours, from a set down. And the moment the trophy went up, the real work began: recovery.
Here's the thing that isn't just a tennis thing. Tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, the polo player's shoulder, the cricketer's wrist and back, every sport built on the same repetitive swinging motion loads the same tissue in the same way.
A tendon is a rope of collagen fibres. Every session frays it a little. Given time and raw material, it re-weaves stronger. Keep loading it before it's replenished, and the fibres give way β that's how overuse quietly becomes injury.
Tendons are up to 80% collagen, and from your mid-20s you make less of it every year. Which is why recovery, not just training is what keeps you in the game: faster turnaround between matches, and a body that's still competitive in your 40s, 50s and beyond.
Tennis, polo, golf, cricket whatever you swing, the recovery is the part nobody films. Do it properly.
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