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 on the annual spring briefing.
The entire 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 fee) handed out to rivals on the grass-court Grand Slam event 10 years in the past.
Ticket demand “has by no means been higher” than it was this 12 months, mentioned Deborah Jevans, the brand new chair of the All England Membership.
The winners’ checks for 2024 signify a soar of 350,000 kilos every (almost $450,000), a 14.9% soar.
Gamers who lose within the first spherical of singles will get 60,000 kilos (about $76,000) every, 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).
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’s one thing that the game would wish to do on a unified foundation,” Bolton mentioned about forming a coverage. “It’s one thing that’s pertinent and subsequently 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 pronounces this will likely be his final look on the event. Murray’s 2013 singles title was the primary for a British man on the All England Membership in 77 years, and he received the event once more in 2016. “We have definitely received plans in place and we’re prepared and ready, however in the end it is Andy’s resolution,” 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 Court docket will proceed to start play at 1:30 p.m. native time (8:30 a.m. EDT), regardless of considerations expressed by Novak Djokovic that such scheduling inevitably results in late begins for a day’s final match. “We’ve reviewed it, we’ve thought lengthy and laborious and appeared on the information round size of matches and the traits which are occurring in that house,” Bolton mentioned, “and had been very assured and pleased with the choice that we’ve made this 12 months.” Added Jevans: “We’re very snug with the state of affairs.” Djokovic, who has received seven of his 24 Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon however is predicted to overlook this 12 months’s event after knee surgical procedure, mentioned a 12 months in the past that perhaps the All England Membership ought to take into account opening its primary stadium at midday (Court docket No. 1 begins play at 1 p.m.; smaller courts at 11 a.m.). As a result of the event web site is in a residential space, there may be an 11 p.m. curfew for competitors.
