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  • Players don't hang around home after Wimbledon defeats

    7/7/08 2:35 PM | Johan Lindahl
    - Wimbledon finalist Roger Federer and champion Rafael Nadal may have gotten their money's worth on elite-level home rentals during the tennis fortnight, but that's not the case for other stars who lost early.

    The grass-court Grand Slam produces a financial field day for some local homeowners, who are able to vacate and rent out luxury dwellings within walking distant of the club for “loadsamoney”.

    Costs range from a modest 1,500 sterling ($3,000) per week to 8,000 ($16,000) for a six-bedroom place overlooking Wimbledon Common.

    Well-paid megastars always take high-end dwellings - but none usually hang around for more than a day after exiting the tournament.

    That's what happened at this edition to the likes of Novak Djokovic, Ana Ivanovic and Maria Sharapova, who still had to pay the full rate for time booked.

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Poor millionaires!

EinarBerg , 7/7/08 2:36 PM



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