Wimbledon to offer record prize money of US$50.5M
LONDON –
Wimbledon will provide a file whole of 40.3 million kilos (US$50.5 million) in participant compensation, however the singles champions will obtain lower than the pre-pandemic quantity.
The prize cash excluding per diems totals a file 38.9 million kilos (US$48.8 million), the All England Membership introduced Thursday. The boys’s and ladies’s singles winners will every earn 2 million kilos (US$2.5 million), which is 14.9 per cent lower than in 2019.
The general prize cash is an 11 per cent improve over final yr, when crowd capability was lowered due to coronavirus restrictions, and a 5.4 per cent improve over 2019.
The oldest Grand Slam event begins June 27 and organizers highlighted plans for the grass-court competitors to be at full capability for the primary time in three years.
Although beneath the 2019 quantity, the prize cash for the lads’s and ladies’s singles winners is a 17.6 per cent improve from final yr, when Novak Djokovic and Ash Barty received their respective titles. The 2020 event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Organizers stated the distribution this yr “continues to put significance on supporting gamers within the early rounds of the occasion.” Singles gamers within the first spherical might be competing for 50,000 kilos (US$62,700), which is 11 per cent greater than in 2019.
Prize cash within the wheelchair and quad wheelchair occasions is up 40 per cent over 2019.
“From the primary spherical of the qualifying competitors to the champions being topped,” stated Ian Hewitt, chairman of the All England Membership, “this yr’s prize cash distribution goals to replicate simply how essential the gamers are to The Championships as we glance to proceed to ship one of many world’s main sporting occasions, and with a very particular event forward of us as we have fun 100 years of Centre Court docket on Church Street.”
The All England Membership has barred gamers from Russia and Belarus from Wimbledon this yr due to the invasion of Ukraine. In response, the ladies’s and males’s skilled excursions introduced they won’t award rating factors for Wimbledon this yr.
