Wimbledon breaks the bank with £3.5m for champions
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 […]