Game, set and match

Game, set and match

The 135th Wimbledon Championships is underway, with the All England Club celebrating its centenary of hosting this iconic Grand Slam.


  • Across Great Britain there are about 24,000 tennis courts; around 2.8 million (10%) of households live within 400m of a public tennis court.
  • Nearly 4 million people, close to 6% of the population, participate in tennis, placing Great Britain in the top 10 of tennis nations across the globe.
  • The winners of the men's and women's singles will each receive £2 million for their efforts at this year's Wimbledon. 99.5% of all properties sold across England and Wales over the past year could have been purchased with this budget. Source: Dataloft, International Tennis Federation, Lawn Tennis Association, Opendata, Land Registry based on sales June 2021 to May 2022


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