This is the amount that the winner and the generator of a tournament that this year distributes 52 million will pocket, a record figure.
The cost of living crisis is left out of the very private All England Club. Wimbledon has thrown the house out the window and breaks the box this year with £44 million in prize money (52 million euros). This is a new record that players will undoubtedly appreciate, with an increase of 10.7% compared to the previous year, even above the rampant inflation in the United Kingdom.
The winners of the men’s and women’s finals, with a rise of 17.5%, will take 2.6 million. Same prize for men and women (a golden rule in the Grand Slams, thanks to the fight for gender equality led in its day by Billie Jean Kingwho received a check for £500 for winning in 1968).
Before the final date of Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic He already led everyone with a cumulative total of 150 million euros in his career, including the 23 Grand Slams in his saddlebags, and the two checks from the Australian Open and Roland-Garros still fresh in his portfolio. This year the Serbian has won 4.5 million euros. His ambition is to close the year exceeding the bar of 160 million. In the earnings ranking he is still Rafael Nadalwith 120 million euros. Andy Murray He is the second among those present at the All England Club, with two Wimbledons behind him, 46 titles and 56 million euros accumulated.
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alcaraz It has entered the list this year with 14 million and with the US Open as its most valued prize. He received 477,795 euros for his victory in Queens, which helped him reconquer number 1. This year the Murcian has pocketed 4.2 million euros between the different tournaments. The Spaniard has become the new advertising ace of tennis, according to the recent headline of The Daily Mail, following in the wake of Federer with Rolex, and doing a double with Calvin Klein, Nike and Louis Vuitton. It is estimated that in the facet of man-ad he could bill eight million a year.
Venus Williams43, eliminated in the first round, leads the list of “millionaires” at Wimbledon with a cumulative total of 36 million euros in her career, followed by the Czech Peter Kvitov (32 million) and Victoria Azarenka (31 million). The 16-year-old Russian tennis player Mirra Andreeva He has won 240,000 euros for reaching the round of 16 in his debut, although he will have to deduct a little more than 7,500 for the fines imposed for rebuking the court judge and throwing the racket in the air.
“Double the digits”
Los finalists will receive this year 1.3 million euros and the semifinalists, 700,000. Reaching the quarterfinals has been rewarded with 397,000 and thus up to 64,000 for falling in the first round. The winners of the men’s and women’s doubles pocket 700,000 euros to distribute and the mixed doubles, 144,000.
“We are delighted to be able to offer record prize money to all who compete this year, double the digits in most categories,” he declared. Ian Hewitt, President of the All England Club. “Our ambition with this distribution of prizes is to return, both for the winners and for the rest of the competitors, to the levels we had before the pandemic and to give the players all the support they deserve in the early stages of the competition” .
This year’s final is the most sought-after in a long time, with prices of up to 10,000 pounds (11,600 euros) for a ticket even before the 14-day championship started. Corporate sponsors can pay up to 100,000 pounds (116,000 euros) for VIP seats on Center Court. With a capacity for 42,000 spectators on all courts, Wimbledon hopes to possibly break the attendance record this year after the pandemic break.
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