The 2024 Wimbledon Championships kicked off June 24, with first-round rivals starting their bids for a spot within the attracts’ finals.
Final yr’s males’s singles champion Carlos Alcaraz has superior to the finals, after defeating Daniil Medvedev within the second-to-last spherical Friday. He’ll face off in opposition to Novak Djokovic within the finals Sunday. In 2023, the event winner took house £2.35 million, or $2.97 million, in prize cash. If Alcaraz is profitable in his bid for the title once more this yr, he’ll obtain a considerable bump in pay.
The 2024 males’s singles draw winner will get a £2.7 million, or simply over $3.4 million, payout, reflecting an almost 15% bump in pay from 2023, in response to official prize cash figures launched by the grass court docket event.
The ladies’s singles winner receives the identical £2.7 million payout, additionally up virtually 15% from 2023. Since 2007, the lads’s and girls’s singles draw winners have obtained equal prize cash. Barbora Krejcikova beat Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 in Saturday’s ladies’s last to win her second Grand Slam title.
Examine that with the winner’s cash prize in 1968, the earliest yr for which Wimbledon lists prize cash, when the gents’s champion made £2,000 and the women’ champ made £750.
This yr, too, the successful doubles championship groups will every obtain £650,000. The whole purse for all attracts in 2024 is a document £50,000,000, up almost 12% in contrast with 2023.
“With this yr’s championships solely days away, I’m delighted to announce a document prize cash fund of £50 million, with will increase for gamers in each spherical and throughout each occasion,” Deborah Jevans, chair of the All England Membership, the host of Wimbledon, stated in an announcement.
The runners-up, or finalists, in every draw will earn a reasonably penny too. Second-place males’s and girls’s singles gamers will take house £1.4 million every. Second-place doubles groups will make £330,000.
A portion of the whole purse can be paid out to gamers who compete within the qualifying draw, with their money winnings growing in the event that they advance to the early rounds of the principle draw.
Gamers who make it to the primary spherical of Wimbledon’s major singles draw take house £60,000. That rises to £93,000 for the second spherical, £143,000 for the third spherical, and £226,000 for the fourth spherical. Quarter-finalists make £375,000, and semi-finalists make £715,000.
Wimbledon additionally hosts a wheelchair occasion, that includes 16 gamers for the singles draw and eight groups for the doubles event. Singles winners get £65,000 every and doubles groups get £28,000.
Diede de Groot secured her fifteenth consecutive Grand Slam title by successful the ladies’s wheelchair last on Saturday for her sixth singles trophy on the All England Membership.
