Wimbledon first-week attendance slips due to rain
The Peninsula
LONDON: The All England Club isn t worried about fans skipping Wimbledon because of England s run in soccer s European Championship. The rain is an...
LONDON: The All England Club isn't worried about fans skipping Wimbledon because of England's run in soccer's European Championship.
The rain is another story, though.
Week One attendance was down by 3.7% from last year as rain interrupted play on several days at the grass-court Grand Slam. Friday's attendance was the lowest for a first Friday, excluding the pandemic-restricted 2021 tournament, since 1998.
"This year the weather has been so variable and so bad at times that I think at the moment our assessment is it’s almost certainly the weather that’s impacting (attendance),” Sally Bolton, chief executive of the All England Club, said Monday as the tournament entered its second week.
A total of 36,630 fans attended on Friday, when rain delayed the start of play by two hours and also stopped matches from being played on the outside courts in the evening.
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