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 Wimbledon 2003 Snap Facts
Sunday, 6th July 2003

Catering

Wimbledon’s famous strawberries continue to be the favourite treat with 35,000kgs consumed. Around 60,000 pints of Pimm’s and 14,000 bottles of champagne helped quench visitors thirst, as did 325,000 bottles of water.

Crowds

Estimated: 470,000

New day record set on Tuesday 24 June (41,929) and Thursday 26 June (41,967).

Media

3798 media accredited (788 press, 2757 broadcast personnel, 253 photographers and photographic support staff).

Rackets

The Championships stringing team worked round the clock to string a total of 2,007 rackets comprising 60% for men, 40% for women. In total this adds up to nearly 37.5 miles of string. Roughly 40% was gut string, 25 % hybrid (gut and synthetic) and 35% synthetic gut.

TV coverage

Over 5000 hours of coverage transmitted to approximately 1.8 billion people across 160 countries worldwide. The highest UK audience of The Championships was Tim Henman's fourth round clash with David Nalbandian which peaked at 12.7 million.

www.wimbledon.org

Over 4 million unique users logged onto the Wimbledon Website, www.wimbledon.org. Site visited over 27 million times with average stay of two hours and ten minutes.

Event Ticker, showing the latest news of all the action and the Live Match Report launched over 1 million times.

Wimbledon merchandise

The top 5 best selling items in the Wimbledon Shop were: 8000 Men’s Championship Towels, 6800 Ladies’ Championship Towels, 4877 Twin Wrist Bands, 3900 Milk Chocolate Tennis Balls in a Tube, and 3650 Giant Tennis Balls.

 

 


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