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Prize money at Wimbledon this year has increased by 20% from 2025 to a record-breaking figure of \u00a364.2 million ($85.9 million).<\/p>\n
The All England Club revealed the prize pot on Thursday morning during a press conference with chair Debbie Jevans and chief executive Sally Bolton.<\/p>\n
A group of the world\u2019s leading players staged a pre-event protest at the French Open, where media activities were limited to 15 minutes each after prize money only increased by 9.5% from 2025 and stayed at around 15% of the revenue generated from the grand slam at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n
The ambition of the players\u2019 group is for the prize fund to be closer to 22% of the tournament\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n
Wimbledon\u2019s increase from \u00a353.5 million last year to \u00a364.2 million represents a 20% increase on the Championships in 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cI recognise there is one topic you are most interested in hearing about this morning and that\u2019s prize money,\u201d Jevans said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor 2026 the prize money fund will be \u00a364.2 million, that is a 20% increase on last year and \u00a310.7 million uplift which allows players to continue to share in our success.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur support for players is distributed throughout the draw.<\/p>\n
Gentleman and Ladies singles\u2019 champions will each receive \u00a33.6 million and first-round prize money is set at \u00a380,000, so players that lose in the first round will share more than \u00a35 million in prize money.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese figures represent a substantial increase in prize money.\u201d <\/p>\n
Wimbledon CEO Bolton met with the players\u2019 representative Larry Scott at Roland Garros last month.<\/p>\n
Jevons said: \u201cThere has been no dialogue with the players direct but we have had dialogue with Larry Scott, who has been appointed by some of players to represent them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had dialogue, email exchanges and a meeting in Paris. <\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Paris you have all read the 22% and \u00a370 million, what we have done is right and appropriate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe begin looking at prize money in January. We looked at investment in facilities, in grassroots and player prize money. I would hope the players would welcome it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA Media\/DPA London Prize money at Wimbledon this year has increased by 20% from 2025 to a record-breaking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7348,3346,7349,1054,7347,517,7346,360,4219,285],"class_list":["post-18201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wimbledon","tag-7348","tag-by","tag-following","tag-french","tag-money","tag-open","tag-prize","tag-protest","tag-up","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}