‘It’s like there’s no cost of living crisis’: visitors splash out at Wimbledon

A visitor carries two glasses of Pimm’s, costing £11.20 each, at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

A young, smartly dressed man is walking through the well-manicured grounds of Wimbledon, carefully carrying a couple of championship-branded plastic glasses and two half bottles of champagne. They are covered by tennis ball sleeves.

When asked how much they cost, he stops. “I don’t know, actually,” he says. He looks at the credit card receipt: £92. “Well, it’s champagne,” he shrugs. “At an event like this, that isn’t bad.”