By Daily Sports on May 1, 2019
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Wimbledon prize money will total 38 million pounds ($49 million) for this year’s championships, a rise of 11.8 percent, the All England Club announced on Tuesday.
The men’s and women’s singles champions will receive 2.35 million pounds each — 100,000 more than in 2018.
Continuing a theme of recent years, organisers have again significantly raised the prize money for early-round losers.
Prize money for qualifying and rounds one to three in the singles will rise by 10 percent with 45,000 pounds now the compensation for a first-round singles exit.
Wimbledon’s total prize money for 2019 surpasses the 62.5 million Australian dollars ($44 million) at this year’s opening Grand Slam in Melbourne but is still lower than the $53 million prize pool at last year’s U.S. Open.
The French Open recently announced an 8 percent increase in prize money for next month’s event, taking it to 42.6 million euros ($48 million).
Wimbledon’s prize money has trebled in the last decade.
This year’s Wimbledon Championships will see Court One’s new retractable roof in operation for the first time. (Reuters)
•Photo shows Wimbledon Trophy
Source Daily Sports
Posted May 1, 2019
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