Nothing - apart from the tennis - symbolises the Wimbledon Championships as much as strawberries and cream. At this year's tournament it is expected that visitors will consume more than 28,000kg of strawberries accompanied by over 7,000 litres of fresh cream. That's more than 8,000 punnets per day.
Supplying tennis fans with their favourite treat is no small task. Grade 1 strawberries are picked in Kentish farms the day before and driven to London overnight. They arrive at about 5.30am, when they are inspected before being hulled and fed to the punters.
The price of a serving of 10 strawberries with cream increased gradually from £1.60 in 1990 to £2 in 2003, but since then the price has remained the same.
Wimbledon has the largest catering operation carried out at any single annual sporting event in Europe. About 1,500 catering staff are employed by Facilities Management Catering at numerous restaurants and cafs across the site, including the tea lawn, the Wingfield restaurant and the member's enclosure.
Visitors to this year's tournament are expected to gorge on 190,000 sandwiches, 135,000 ice-creams, 22,000 slices of pizza and 12,000kg of poached and smoked salmon - not to mention the 150,000 glasses of Pimm's, 17,000 bottles of Champagne and 100,000 pints of beer.
The first Lawn Tennis Championship was held in 1877 and had only one event, the gentlemen's singles, won by rackets player Spencer Gore. About 200 spectators paid one shilling to watch the final.