{"id":639325,"date":"2026-06-15T05:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639325\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:37:17","slug":"wimbledon-sells-55-candle-that-smells-like-fresh-cut-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639325\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon sells \u00a355 candle that smells like fresh-cut grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price rises came a year after Wimbledon increased the price of portions of strawberries and cream for the first time in 15 years. The famous Wimbledon snack increased by 20p from \u00a32.50 to \u00a32.70.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s championship will run from Monday, June 19 until Sunday, July 12, with 128 competitors in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles competitions. The Championships culminate in the ladies\u2019 singles final on July 11 and the men\u2019s final the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Williams scenting victory?<\/p>\n<p>The grass-scented candles may not be alone in making a comeback this year, with <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/serena-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams<\/a> not ruling out a return to this year\u2019s singles event.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time singles champion won on her first performance back at Queen\u2019s this year, defeating Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe with her doubles partner Victoria Mboko. It was the American\u2019s first competitive match in almost four years.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019s doubles campaign came to an end at Queen\u2019s last week when Mboko injured herself in a fall while playing singles.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is understood to be undecided about whether to enter the singles or ladies\u2019 doubles events at Wimbledon, but she is unlikely to play both.<\/p>\n<p>Rise in net profits<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the championships, players have welcomed a 20 per cent increase in Wimbledon prize money.<\/p>\n<p>The total prize money on offer at this year\u2019s championships will be \u00a364.2m, after the largest annual increase in the event\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>In Paris three weeks ago, some leading players, including world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, staged a partial media boycott to highlight their complaints about the supposedly inadequate prize money at the four grand-slam tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The price rises came a year after Wimbledon increased the price of portions of strawberries and cream for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6302,1431,50,101,5438,118,56,54,55,164415],"class_list":["post-639325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-consumer-goods","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wimbledon-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639325","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=639325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}