Wimbledon by numbers

15 June 2016 05:23

Wimbledon is about tennis. Of course it is, to many. Roger Federer only truly cares about the numbers on the scoreboard.

But Wimbledon is about a great day out too, and the extraordinary lengths to which organisers go to stage the world's premier tennis tournament.

Here is a look, in numbers, at how the All England Club is transformed from a private club to the site of a sporting jamboree for a fortnight each year.

Top tennis tipples - what the crowds drink:

:: 330,000 cups of tea and coffee

:: 320,000 glasses of Pimm's

:: 230,000 bottles of water

:: 110,000 pints of draught beer and lager

:: 29,000 bottles of champagne

Wimbledon's strawberry bond:

:: 140,000 portions of English strawberries are sold during the tournament

:: £1.70 - price of a punnet in 1993

:: £2.50 - price of a punnet in 2015

:: 10,000 - the litres of cream that are poured over the fruit during the course of the championships

:: 10 - minimum number of berries per punnet

Serving up food fit for a champion diet - what the crowds eat each year:

:: 110,000 sandwiches and baguettes

:: 16,000 portions of fish and chips

:: 30,000 stonebaked pizzas

:: 86,000 ice cream portions

:: 25,000 scones

:: 5,000 kilos of bananas (for the players)

On court:

:: 250 - ball boys and ball girls trained and ready for action

:: 54,250 - balls used each tournament

:: 26.5 - percentage of correct challenges to Hawk-Eye by men's singles players in 2015

:: 27.04 - percentage of correct challenges to Hawk-Eye by women's singles players in 2015

:: 8 - length, in millimetres, of the grass on the courts

Around the grounds:

:: 50,000 - plants provided for the championships every year

:: 39,000 - spectator capacity

:: 3,250 - number of accredited media

:: 10 - minutes that it takes the Centre Court roof to close

:: 290million - number of balls that could fit inside Centre Court, with the roof closed

:: 40 - miles of string used to prime racquets for action by the tournament's stringing team

Source: Wimbledon.com

Source: PA