{"id":680377,"date":"2026-05-19T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680377\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:01:18","slug":"sally-bolton-to-step-down-as-all-england-club-chief-after-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680377\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Bolton to step down as All England Club chief after Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sally Bolton will step down as the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s (AELTC) chief executive after Wimbledon following six years in the role.<\/p>\n

Bolton became the first female chief executive<\/a> of the All England Club when she was appointed in December 2019, replacing Richard Lewis.<\/p>\n

The 51-year-old oversaw Wimbledon’s return after the tournament was cancelled in 2020<\/a> because of the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n

The AELTC said that financial director Richard Atkinson will take up the role on an interim basis and a new chief executive will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n

“I am proud of what we have achieved together – particularly bringing the Championships back following the pandemic and in shaping a clear path for the future,” Bolton said.<\/p>\n

“The All England Club is a very special institution, and I look forward to seeing it continue to flourish in the years ahead.”<\/p>\n

Bolton has backed the AELTC’s plans to to expand the Wimbledon site<\/a> and oversaw the tournament’s transition from a 13-day to a 14-day event in 2022, with the introduction of play in its middle Sunday.<\/p>\n

Deborah Jevans, the chair of the All England Club, said: “I’d like to thank Sally for her hard work and dedication over that time and commend her for guiding the organisation through a period of significant change.”<\/p>\n

Wimbledon takes place from Monday, 28 June to Sunday, 12 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sally Bolton will step down as the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s (AELTC) chief executive after Wimbledon following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-680377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}