{"id":674810,"date":"2026-07-05T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674810\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:45:13","slug":"wimbledon-tennis-stars-kept-looking-sharp-by-surrey-seamstresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674810\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon tennis stars kept looking sharp by Surrey seamstresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two seamstresses at Wimbledon expect to have altered 1,000 items of clothing by the end of the tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Erica Russell, 66, and Marlien Beets, 59, work 12-hour shifts adjusting clothing for players at the Grand Slam event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair, who both live in Surrey, said this involved advising competitors to check their clothing complied with strict dress codes and ironing on sponsors&#8217; badges, as well as alterations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;mind-blowing&#8221; figure of more than 900 items of clothing have gone to the seamstresses since the tournament&#8217;s draw was announced, according to Russell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she started the role at Wimbledon in 2019 before recruiting Beets two years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t sugar coat this job at all because nothing in life prepares you for this, it is just full on,&#8221; Russell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beets said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve worked out our system, our routine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I&#8217;m busy, she&#8217;s not busy, she&#8217;ll help me, and if she&#8217;s busy and I&#8217;m not then I&#8217;ll sit and nip the threads off quickly and pick stuff up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two seamstresses at Wimbledon expect to have altered 1,000 items of clothing by the end of the tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674810","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\/674810","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=674810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}