LONDON — Wimbledon’s prize cash has risen to a document 53.5 million kilos (about $73 million US) and the singles champions will every earn three million kilos ($4 million US), All England Membership officers introduced on Thursday.
The entire quantity is 3.5 million kilos ($6.8 million US) greater than final 12 months, a rise of seven per cent — and precisely twice the pot handed out to opponents on the grass-court Grand Slam 10 years in the past.
“We’re immensely happy with the truth that in case you look again 10 years, you possibly can see the rise over that interval and seven% this 12 months,” All England chair Deborah Jevans stated. “And now we have listened to the gamers, now we have engaged with the gamers.”
The 2025 winners’ checks symbolize an 11.1 per cent bounce on final 12 months’s prizes for the lads’s and ladies’s singles champions and comes amid rising participant calls for for an even bigger share of grand slam earnings.
Gamers who lose within the first spherical of singles will get 66,000 kilos, up 10 per cent 12 months on 12 months.
“The give attention to 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 stated that we as Wimbledon are prepared to have interaction 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 might be changed with digital line-calling.
