Evian, the official water of Wimbledon, will introduce the first ever on-court refillable drinks system for players at this year’s Championships.
As part of the tournament’s sustainability drive, the evian refill water system will see players provided with their own reusable bottles that can be refilled with natural mineral water on-court and in designated player areas, including practice courts, dressing rooms and restaurants.
Courts 2-18 will see an on-court dispenser positioned beneath the umpire chair during matches for players to refill their bottles themselves, alongside ball boys and girls, who will also be on hand to help refill on behalf of those competing. On Centre Court and No.1 Court, prefilled reusable bottles will be available to supplement the ones supplied to and brought onto court by players.
Sarah Dossett, Vice President, Marketing, Danone UK & Ireland, said: “We are incredibly proud of our long-standing relationship with one of the world’s most prestigious sporting events. Together through collaboration, we are excited to pilot this new system for 2023. The development of a refill solution to deliver our evian water to players demonstrates evian’s continued commitment to innovate. Together with Wimbledon, we are continuing our journey towards our circularity ambitions.”
Sally Bolton, Chief Executive at the All England Club, added: “Wimbledon remains firmly committed to becoming Environment Positive by 2030. We continue to make improvements year-on-year to reach this ambition. Throughout, we have been working together with evian to evolve and move towards delivering evian water in the most sustainable way. We are excited about this next step in our journey together and look forward to seeing how the pilot goes and the impact it could have going forward.”
