Carlos Alcaraz with the Wimbledon trophy. File
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Wimbledon’s prize cash has risen to a document £53.5 million (about $73 million) and the singles champions will every earn £3 million ($4 million), All England Membership officers introduced on Thursday.
The entire quantity is £3.5 million ($6.8 million) greater than final 12 months, a rise of seven% — and precisely twice the pot handed out to opponents on the grass-court Grand Slam 10 years in the past.
“We’re immensely pleased with the truth that for those who look again 10 years, you may see the rise over that interval and seven% this 12 months,” All England chair Deborah Jevans mentioned. “And we’ve got listened to the gamers, we’ve got engaged with the gamers.”
The 2025 winners’ checks symbolize an 11.1% bounce on final 12 months’s prizes for the lads’s and girls’s singles champions and comes amid rising participant calls for for a much bigger share of grand slam earnings.
Gamers who lose within the first spherical of singles will get £66,000, up 10% 12 months on 12 months.
“The deal with simply the prize cash at 4 occasions, the Grand Slams, doesn’t get to the guts of what the problem is for tennis,” Jevans added.
“The problem with tennis is the truth that the gamers don’t have an offseason which they need, they’ve rising accidents that they’re talking about, and we’ve all the time mentioned that we as Wimbledon are prepared to interact and speak with the excursions to try to discover options, and that door stays open.”
Wimbledon begins on June 30 and runs till July 13. For the primary time within the oldest Grand Slam, line judges can be changed with digital line-calling.
Revealed – June 13, 2025 04:31 am IST
