{"id":39676,"date":"2022-06-28T11:47:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/wimbledon-2022-10-fun-facts-including-total-tennis-balls-used-and-strawberries-consumed"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:47:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:47:53","slug":"wimbledon-2022-10-fun-facts-including-total-tennis-balls-used-and-strawberries-consumed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/wimbledon-2022-10-fun-facts-including-total-tennis-balls-used-and-strawberries-consumed","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2022: 10 fun facts including total tennis balls used and strawberries consumed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon is back with the All England Lawn and Tennis Club set to attract 500,000 spectators across two action-packed weeks of tennis. Novak Djokovic looks to retain his title, which would total four consecutive titles for the Serbian. While Iga Swiatek is the favourite in the women&#8217;s singles with the world No1 triumphing at the French Open earlier this month. British interest is propped up by Emma Raducanu, Andy Murray and Cameron Norrie, who will hope to lean on the home support to contend into the second week. Here are 10 fun facts about the iconic Grand Slam: 1. There will be approximately 54,000 tennis balls used during the Championships across the fortnight. 2. Every day 48 tins of tennis balls will be taken to Centre Court and Court One to start each day&#8217;s play. While the outside courts will have 24 tins of tennis balls. 3. The tennis balls have only been yellow since 1986 when they replaced the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon is back with the All England Lawn and Tennis Club set to attract 500,000 spectators across two action-packed weeks of tennis.Novak Djokovic looks to retain his title, which would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[446,58,71],"class_list":["post-39676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tennis","tag-french-open","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}