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The Wimbledon finals are this weekend, the pinnacle of the oldest and most revered tennis tournament in the world.
Tennis has its established rituals, and Wimbledon is probably the most entrenched in those rituals.
Hannah Miller covers media for Bloomberg, and she got to see the action up close.
The grounds are amazing.
There's flowers everywhere, there's high tea.
People are allowed to bring champagne into the grounds.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, if you could avoid opening bottles of champagne when the players are about to serve.
Oh, come on.
If someone actually pops a champagne bottle and you hear the cork, like, that's the noise interruption.
It's not necessarily people screaming.
Wimbledon brings in a lot of money.
If you wanted to attend the tournament this year without waiting hours in the queue for cheap tickets,
it could take you over $500,000 to secure a guaranteed seat on Center Court.
That's almost double last year's price and triple the year before.
Prize money for the marquee tournament is also on the rise.
This year, the singles champs will each take home 3.6 million pounds, or nearly $5 million.
But while players in other leagues have gained ground toward benefiting from their sport's overall profitability,
The Athletic's tennis reporter Matt Futterman says tennis sits in a more complicated gray area,