‘It was cool, I fell asleep’: inside Wimbledon’s £128,000 new sci-fi recovery chamber

Tommy Paul said of Wimbledon’s futuristic Ammortal Chamber: ‘It was great. I felt very rested for sure.’ Photograph: Shaun Brooks/CameraSport/Getty Images

Before his straight-sets first-round victory over Alexandre Müller on Monday, the American No 21 seed, Tommy Paul, stepped into the All England Club’s new recovery suite and lay down on a strange zigzag-shaped bed.

At that point, hydrogen gas was pumped through his nostrils and his body experienced multiwave light, pulsed electromagnetic and sound therapy – all from a £128,000 device called the Ammortal Chamber, which claims to be “the fastest way to reset, recharge and rejuvenate the body, mind and spirit”.