Overview
- On Monday, June 29, 2026 Sabalenka arrived at her Wimbledon opening match wearing an emerald-and-diamond suite that Material Good and reports put at roughly £185,000.
- Material Good described the set as an 18k gold necklace with brown diamonds and heart-shaped emeralds plus matching earrings and an 11-carat, 27-emerald anklet with individual price estimates reported by the press.
- Sabalenka has limited her media duties as part of a roughly 20-player effort to press the Grand Slams for a larger slice of tournament revenue, a campaign that seeks more than 15 percent of event income.
- Tournament figures reported for Wimbledon include a 20 percent overall prize-fund increase this year with a winner’s cheque of about £3.6 million and first-round payouts of £80,000, and Sabalenka and Material Good have defended the appearance as sponsorship and personal expression.
- The episode has renewed scrutiny of the gap between top players’ commercial earnings and lower-ranked players’ finances and could shape public and player reactions to the protest and to how tournaments respond to calls for redistribution.