Wimbledon: Strawberry merch drives sales increase at All England Club June 30, 2025 Wimbledon may be famous for its strawberries but it’s not the edible variety that is boosting profits at the All England Club as it prepares for the annual deluge of tennis fans over the coming fortnight. Championship chiefs have sought to capitalise on the seasonal red fruit’s place in the quintessential Wimbledon experience with a [...]
Wimbledon scams: Bots are beating humans to the gates of Centre Court June 30, 2025 Bots are blitzing Wimbledon’s ticketing platform, scooping up tens of thousands of pounds’ worth of seats every minute while real deal fans scramble for scraps. A new investigation by cyberfraud firm Datadome has exposed just how exposed the system is – and it’s not a good look for the world’s most prestigious tennis tournament. Despite [...]
CVC Capital Partners hire former EE boss to new sports arm June 26, 2025 CVC SportsCo, a new entity created by private equity giants CVC Capital Partners, has been bolstered by the hire of former mobile phone network EE boss Marc Allera. Allera will take a the role central to the firm’s sporting portfolio, which once owned Formula 1. The current CVC Capital Partners portfolio includes stakes in Premiership [...]
Sports events must decide between purists and entertaining newbies June 26, 2025 With Britain in the height of its summer sporting season, Ed Warner debates how organisers must balance pleasing purists with enticing new fans. “Does anyone talk about The Season anymore? The social whirl of the Lord’s Test, Queen’s, Royal Ascot and then finally Wimbledon? I may have missed others…” I replied to this Sport inc. [...]
Andy Murray statue: Wimbledon chiefs confirm All England Club tribute June 24, 2025 Wimbledon chair Debbie Jevans has confirmed plans to erect a statue of Sir Andy Murray at the All England Club – but not until 2027. Three-time Grand Slam winner Murray, who retired shortly after his farewell appearance at SW19 last year, is working with the AELTC on the statue. “We are looking to have a [...]
HMRC to cash in on hiked Wimbledon prize money June 22, 2025 The increase in prize money at Wimbledon this year has been described as a win for HMRC by a top tax advisory firm. Winners of the men’s and women’s singles titles will each bag themselves £3m at this year’s Wimbledon Championships, a figure up on last year’s sum. Even first round losers will earn £66,000 [...]
HSBC Championships: Why sponsors can’t get enough of Queen’s Club June 19, 2025 For the last three years, the men’s championship at Queen’s Club has been voted the best ATP 500-level tournament on the circuit by perhaps the most important stakeholders of all: players. The tennis-watching public also seems to love it. Last week’s women’s championship, held for the first time in 50 years, sold out for several [...]
WTA Ventures: Queen’s, CVC Capital Partners and an organisation pushing on June 16, 2025 After a successful week of WTA tennis at Queen’s, WTA Ventures chief Marina Storti discusses the state of the sport, its private equity partner CVC Capital Partners and a potential merger with the ATP. When 37-year-old Tatjana Maria upset the odds to win the HSBC Championships in front of 9,000 fans on Sunday, she became [...]
Wimbledon expansion: Key judicial review set for during grand slam June 12, 2025 Wimbledon will face a crunch judicial review on their plans to expand their Championships tennis site during this year’s grand slam. Speaking ahead of this year’s SW19 tournament, which gets underway on 30 June, All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club chair Deborah Jevans said the Greater London Authority decision to grant planning permission to [...]
How to earn £15,000 during Queen’s and Wimbledon Championships June 12, 2025 Walk out of Barons Court tube station – via your preferred District or Piccadilly line train – turn right and within 100 yards you’ll see the HSBC red colour scheme branded across a sign that welcomes you to Queen’s Club. Because this and next week, in the leafy London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, the [...]