LONDON — Wimbledon’s complete prize cash fund will rise to a file 50 million kilos (about $64 million), with the singles champions every incomes 2.7 million kilos ($3.45 million), All England Membership officers introduced Thursday on the annual spring briefing.
The full quantity is 5.3 million kilos ($6.8 million) greater than final 12 months, a rise of 11.9% — and precisely twice the 25 million kilos ($32 million on the present change charge) handed out to opponents on the grass-court Grand Slam match 10 years in the past.
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The winners’ checks for 2024 symbolize a soar of 350,000 kilos (practically $450,000), a 14.9% soar.
Gamers who lose within the first spherical of singles will get 60,000 kilos (about $76,000), up from 55,000 ($70,000) in 2023. The prizes for the qualifying occasion will go up 14.9% to 4.8 million kilos (about $6 million).
Ticket demand “has by no means been larger” than it was this 12 months, mentioned Deborah Jevans, the brand new chair of the All England Membership.
Different subjects addressed by Jevans and Sally Bolton, the membership chief government:
• The membership has been involved with different Grand Slam hosts about the potential for making a home violence coverage. “Clearly that is one thing that the game would need to do on a unified foundation,” Bolton mentioned. “It’s one thing that’s pertinent and due to this fact has been mentioned.” On the just-concluded French Open, Alexander Zverev competed — and ended up reaching the ultimate — whereas being concerned in a trial in Berlin associated to accusations by a former girlfriend of bodily abuse throughout a 2020 argument; the case ended by way of an out-of-court settlement hours earlier than Zverev performed within the semifinals in Paris.
• The membership has plans in place to have fun two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray’s profession if, as anticipated, he proclaims this shall be his final look on the match. Murray’s 2013 singles title was the primary for a British man on the All England Membership in 77 years, and he gained the match once more in 2016. “We have actually obtained plans in place and we’re prepared and ready, however finally it is Andy’s determination,” Bolton mentioned. “We’ll very a lot be led by him, and we are able to amend our plans accordingly. We’re prepared in any eventuality.”
• Centre Courtroom will proceed to start play at 1:30 p.m. native time (8:30 a.m. ET), regardless of considerations expressed by Novak Djokovic that such scheduling inevitably results in late begins for a day’s last match. “We have reviewed it, we have thought lengthy and laborious and appeared on the information round size of matches and the developments which can be occurring in that area,” Bolton mentioned, “and we’re very assured and proud of the choice that we have made this 12 months.” Added Jevans: “We’re very comfy with the scenario.” Djokovic, who has gained seven of his 24 Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon however is anticipated to overlook this 12 months’s match after knee surgical procedure, mentioned a 12 months in the past that possibly the All England Membership ought to think about opening its principal stadium at midday (Courtroom No. 1 begins play at 1 p.m.; smaller courts at 11 a.m.). As a result of the match web site is in a residential space, there may be an 11 p.m. curfew for competitors.
