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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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