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Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has agreed a multi-year rights deal for the Wimbledon grand slam tennis championships
Media Tennis

Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine and its new subscription streaming service Stan Sport have secured three-year deals to broadcast the Wimbledon and French Open Grand Slam tennis tournaments from…
Sponsorship & Marketing Tennis

The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), organiser of the Wimbledon Championships, has announced it has renewed official supplier deals with Rolex, Jaguar and Robinson’s.
Sponsorship & Marketing Tennis

Craft gin brad Sipsmith has been named as the first 'Official Gin Partner' of the Wimbledon Championships. The deal was made by the tournament organisers the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC)
Events Tennis

The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (AELTC) has announced it will allocate prize money for this year’s cancelled Wimbledon Championships having taken out an insurance policy that included pandemic c…
Sponsorship & Marketing Tennis

The 30-year relationship between Wimbledon and tech company IBM will become even closer under a new deal announced this month
Sponsorship & Marketing Tennis

Global technology company IBM and the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), the organisers of the Wimbledon Championships, have extended their 30-year relationship with a new long-term contract
Finance & Law Tennis

The Lawn Tennis Association, the national governing body for tennis in Great Britain, recorded an operating profit of £8.7m ($10.64m /€9.68
Media Multi-Sport

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has today (Thursday) unveiled plans to provide an array of content to compensate for the lack of sporting action it would have televised due to Covid-19

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Mick Desmond, outgoing commercial and media director for the All England Lawn Tennis Club, talks to SportBusiness about his plans to retire at the end of the 2021 championships and his hopes that his successor will respect his commercial legacy.
Multi-Sport
Events

Only a handful of the biggest sports events globally were insured for the Covid-19 interruption. Tommy Elliot of specialist events insurer Circles Group tells SportBusiness about the implications for sports properties, and for his own industry.
Tennis
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The All England Club has expanded its hospitality offering and introduced a more flexible approach to attract smaller bookings and target high-net-worth individuals. Ben Cronin speaks to James Ralley, AELTC head of marketing and commercial, about the changes.
Multi-Sport
Media

As new technology has opened new methods of media distribution, stakeholders from across the sports feeding chain have set out to establish themselves as media businesses
Events Tennis

The All England Lawn Tennis Club has announced the cancellation of this summer's Wimbledon championships due to the global Covid-19 pandemic
Events Multi-Sport

Wimbledon will be cancelled for the first time since World War II, according to German Tennis Federation vice-president Dirk Hordorff. The event is scheduled to begin June 29
Industry Moves Tennis

Discovery-owned international sports broadcaster Eurosport has secured rights to Wimbledon in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for the first time as part of a new deal encompassing 11 European markets
Media Tennis

Saran Media, the Turkish media-rights agency, has extended its contract for the rights to tennis Grand Slam tournament Wimbledon for a further two years in a deal covering 13 territories
Industry Moves Tennis

The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (AELTC) has today (Tuesday) announced that Richard Lewis will step down as chief executive following next year’s edition of the Wimbledon Championships.
Stadia Tennis

In a star-studded ceremony, the All England Lawn Tennis Club unveiled the fully retractable roof on top of Wimbledon's No. 1 Court on Sunday
Finance & Money Tennis

The total prize money for this year’s edition of the Wimbledon grand slam tennis tournament will be £38m (€37.2m/$41.8m), an 11.8-per-cent increase on last year’s fund of £34m. The
Events Tennis

All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) chairman Philip Brook has said the organisation is considering changing its traditional ballot process for tickets to the Wimbledon grand slam tournament…
Finance & Money Tennis

The Lawn Tennis Association is set to receive £40m (€45m/$51m) from the 2018 edition of the Wimbledon tennis Grand Slam, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.
Events Tennis

Wimbledon is set to expand its grounds after a nearby golf club agreed to sell its land to the organisers of the tennis Grand Slam tournament
Events Tennis

In an effort to appease players and fans alike, Wimbledon will introduce tie-breaks when matches reach 12-12 in the final set from next year
Business Tennis

The All England Lawn Tennis Club – operator of the Wimbledon grand slam – moved a step closer to tripling the size of its ground after members of a nearby golf course agreed to hold a vote on whether …
Events Tennis

IT software company IBM has outlined a series of artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives that will be introduced through its partnership with the All England Club for this year’s Wimbledon Championships.