The best tennis players in the world are ready to put on a show at Wimbledon. Here are some facts and figures ahead of the eagerly-awaited tournament at the All England Club.  

- The singles champions will pocket £1.88million each in prize money, with £26.5m up for grabs in total.

- As many as 54,250 tennis balls will be used during the tournament.

- Around 6,000 staff are employed for the Championships - including 250 ball boys and girls, as well as 1,800 catering staff.

- Approximately 28,000 kilogrammes of strawberries and cream are expected to be consumed during the fortnight.

- Serena Williams is aiming to become the second player to win four consecutive women's grand slam titles twice in her career. Steffi Graf achieved that feat between 1988-89 and in 1993-94, while Williams previously reeled off four in a row in 2002-03. Victory in London would also keep Williams on course to become only the fourth player to achieve a Grand Slam in a single year.

- If the world number one and top seed wins Wimbledon she will surpass her sister Venus Williams' haul of five singles titles at SW19. Only Graf (seven) and Martina Navratilova (nine) have won more women's singles titles at the All England Club in the Open Era. 

- Defending men's singles champion Novak Djokovic has reached at least the quarter-final stage in the last 24 grand slams he has competed in. 

- Just six different players have appeared in the last 11 men's Wimbledon finals, with Tomas Berdych the only man to appear in one final during that time.

- If this year's men's champion has never previously won a Grand Slam he will become the 150th different player to lift one of the four titles.

- The last 10 winners of the women's singles title at Wimbledon have come from France (two), Czech Republic (two) or the United States (six).

- Since a run of eight titles in nine years between 1992 and 2000 there has not been a winner of the men’s singles from the USA. That is the longest drought since Bill Tilden's triumph in 1920.