{"id":2274,"date":"2019-07-01T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T10:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/host-students.com\/uncategorized\/wimbledon-facts\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:15:26","slug":"wimbledon-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/host-students.com\/information\/university-students\/wimbledon-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All England Club are <strong>SET<\/strong> to <strong>SERVE<\/strong> up another <strong>ACE<\/strong> competition as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wimbledon <\/a>starts today (1 July) and runs until Sunday 14 July! We\u2019ve pulled together some <strong>FAULT<\/strong> free Wimbledon facts that\u2019ll <strong>HIT<\/strong> that <strong>SWEETSPOT<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10130\" src=\"https:\/\/host-students.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Wimbledon website old wimbledon\" width=\"1440\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">The first Wimbledon championship took place in 1877, making it the oldest tennis tournament in the world.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">Wimbledon is one of four tennis Grand Slam events held each year.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam event to be played on grass courts.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">The grass is cut to a height of exactly 8 mm.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">675 matches take place during the fortnight.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">Wimbledon rules state that all players must be dressed almost entirely in white. &#8211; Umpires can ask a player to change if they don\u2019t meet the dress code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10133\" src=\"https:\/\/host-students.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Wimbledon-website.jpg\" alt=\"Wimbledon website ball in air\" width=\"1440\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">54,250 balls are used and are replaced after every seven to nine games to make sure they\u2019re in perfect shape throughout the match.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">Balls not in use are even stored in a refrigerated container to keep them in tip-top condition at exactly 68\u00b0F.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">The balls used to be white, they were replaced with the Yellow balls we know today to make them more visible to TV cameras.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">About 250 ball boys and girls are used throughout the tournament. Its takes months to train to be a ball boy\/girl including some intense training sessions and over 1000 applications are received each year.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">Champions receive a 3\/4-size replica of their trophy.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">The longest match ever took 11 hours and 5 minutes to complete over the course of three days!<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">The record for fastest men\u2019s serve at Wimbledon belongs to US player Taylor Dent, whose ball hit 147mph.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">Venus Williams holds the record for the fastest women\u2019s serve after smashing a tennis ball about 125mph.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">The loudest known grunt during Wimbledon came from Russia\u2019s Maria Sharapova in 2009. It reached about 105 decibels &#8211; the equivalent of standing beside an accelerating motorcycle!<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">39,000 spectators in the grounds at any one time.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">With the roof closed, Centre court would hold 290 million tennis balls<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">7,500 Wimbledon umbrellas would be needed to cover the same area as the retractable roof.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10131\" src=\"https:\/\/host-students.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Wimbledon website strawberries and cream\" width=\"1440\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">166,055 portions of Strawberries &amp; Cream are served each year.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">17,170 portions of Fish &amp; Chips<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">The players eat 2,195kg of Bananas<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">21,917 bottles of Champagne<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">303,277 glasses of Pimm\u2019s!<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">Over 700 litres of dairy cream are used each day<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">Over 2000 afternoon tea hampers are sold during the two weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve pulled together some FAULT free Wimbledon facts that\u2019ll HIT that SWEETSPOT\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"subject":[71],"location-tax":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university-students","subject-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wimbledon Facts - Starts on 1 July and runs until 14 July - Blog | Host<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The All England Club are SET to SERVE up another ACE competition as Wimbledon starts on 1 July and runs until Sunday 14 July! 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