Stretched across 16 lush grass courts, the impressive operation at Roehampton requires 200 staff members to help organise an event that draws in spectators hoping to catch a glimpse of a promising young Brit or a former big name who has slipped down the rankings.
He called them "Thursday Night Throwdowns". Because shops make an effort to publicize them, the Throwdowns draw in curious customers and passersby as spectators as they unfold over an hour or two.
In second place, it should be stressed that a sports event taking place in a stadium involves a wide variety of complementary products (Vrontis et al. 2014), such as food and drink, betting on the outcome, pre-game and mid-game entertainment, on top of the intangible product in the form of the atmosphere and the sense of sharing, known to draw in millions of spectators around the world.
Director Wang Xiaoying drew in Western spectators to his transcultural production with visual recollections of familiar Richard III scenarios.
Hageman also identifies "perpetual and uncanny ambient sound", and places a particular emphasis on the scene where the man collapses behind Winkies as normal sound is drowned out by a buzzing roar, noting that the noise "creates a dissonance and suspense that draws in the spectator as detective to place the sound and reestablish order".
To draw in a new generation of athletes and spectators, music with lyrics will be allowed at this year's Winter Games.
The possibility of upsets like Milan's against the much larger Muncie Central to win the 1954 state title — fictionalized in the movie "Hoosiers" — helped the tournament draw 1.5 million spectators in 1965.
Years ago, games in the Stamford and Greater Hartford leagues, and also at twilight leagues in Bridgeport, Waterbury and West Haven, would routinely draw 500 spectators, and sometimes more than 1,000.
As a captain and administrator, Bradman was committed to attacking, entertaining cricket; he drew spectators in record numbers.
The 2009 tournament not only drew 332,498 spectators in its two weeks -- fifth-best in the world after the four majors -- but acquired major sponsorship in European bank BNP Paribas.
For sports that draw fewer spectators, such as say, archery, fencing or shot put, that brief moment in the global spotlight can have an impact for years.
