{"id":593883,"date":"2026-05-20T06:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593883\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:47:25","slug":"sally-bolton-all-england-club-chief-to-stand-down-after-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593883\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Bolton, All England Club chief, to stand down after Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sally Bolton, the All England Club\u2019s first female chief executive, is to step down after this year\u2019s Wimbledon Championships.<\/p>\n

Bolton, 51, took over the position in 2020 and oversaw the tournament\u2019s cancellation that year because of the Covid pandemic and its return the following year.\u00a0During her time as chief executive, Wimbledon took the decision to scrap its traditional middle Sunday rest day<\/a> and move to a 14-day tournament. Last year line judges were scrapped<\/a> for the first time in the event\u2019s history, in favour of electronic line calling.<\/p>\n

Debbie Jevans, the chairwoman of the All England Club, said: \u201cSally has made a very important contribution to the success of the All England Club and the championships for over a decade and particularly as chief executive for the past six years.<\/p>\n

\"Catherine,Bolton with the Princess of Wales and Tim Henman in 2021NEIL HALL\/POOL\/AFP<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Atkinson, the financial director, will serve as interim chief executive until a permanent appointment is made.<\/p>\n

Bolton said it had been \u201ca great honour and privilege\u201d to serve as chief executive, adding: \u201cI am proud of what we have achieved together \u2014 particularly bringing the championships back following the pandemic and in shaping a clear path for the future. The All England Club is a very special institution and I look forward to seeing it continue to flourish in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolton has also overseen plans to expand the Wimbledon site on to the former Wimbledon Park Golf Club, including 38 new grass courts and an 8,000-seater stadium. It provoked opposition from campaigners in the area but the All England Club won an important High Court ruling in March<\/a> that should allow the development to go ahead.<\/p>\n

This month leading players said they could boycott a grand-slam tournament<\/a> because of disagreements over the prize money being offered and player rights. Aryna Sabalenka, the women\u2019s world No1, and Coco Gauff, the French Open champion, both said they would be prepared to take such a stand and Jannik Sinner, the men\u2019s No1 and Wimbledon champion, said the players felt disrespected by the grand-slams.<\/p>\n

Wimbledon is due to announce its prize money for the 2026 championships in the coming weeks, having increased it by 7 per cent last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sally Bolton, the All England Club\u2019s first female chief executive, is to step down after this year\u2019s Wimbledon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}