The Wimbledon champion, both male and female, will pocket £3 million (€3.5 million) in the 2025 edition, an 11% increase on last year (the winners received £2,700,000 in 2024) and the largest prize ever awarded by a Grand Slam.
This prize is one million euros more than what, for example, Carlos Alcaraz and Coco Gauff took home for winning Roland Garros just a few days ago.
In total, the tournament will award £53.5 million (€62.8 million), 7% more than the 2024 edition and double that of 10 years ago. In addition, players who play in the first round of the tournament will receive £66,000 (€77,500), 10% more than last year.
In April, the world’s top 20 ATP and WTA players requested, through a letter, more money from the four Grand Slams for what they consider to be an unfair distribution of the income from these tournaments. “What I think is important, and which of course has already been discussed with them, is that focusing solely on the prize money of the four events, i.e. the Grand Slams, does not address the real challenge of tennis.
The challenge lies in the fact that players do not have an off-season, as they would like, and their growing number of injuries, which they talk about. We have always said that as Wimbledon we are willing to collaborate and engage with the tours to try to find solutions, and that door remains open,” said Debbie Jevans, chairman of the All England Club, at the press conference where this year’s prizes were announced.
The Wimbledon organisers also defended the decision to delay the start of the men’s and women’s singles finals by one hour. They will start at 17:00 Spanish time (16:00 London time)
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