TENNIS chiefs have approved a rule change allowing players to ask ball kids to hand them their sweaty towels during matches.
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the sight of ball kids sprinting to players between points, with white towels in hand, was a common one.
AFPPlayers have been grabbing their own towels at Wimbledon[/caption] AFPPrior to the pandemic players were handed towels by ball kids[/caption]But, as hygiene measures were tightened amid Covid measures, players were forced to go and get their own towels.