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Year Singles Doubles Gentlemen Ladies Gentlemen Ladies Mixed; 1877: Spencer Gore: No competition: No competition: No competition: No competition: 1878: Frank Hadow
Total prize money was £26,150; the winner of the men's title earned £2,000 (equivalent to £43,800 in 2023) while the women's singles champion received £750 (equivalent to £16,400 in 2023) [125]. [126] [127] In 2007, Wimbledon and the French Open became the last grand slam tournaments to award unequal prize money to women and men. [128 ...
From then on, Wimbledon would offer prize money. The first winners of the Open Era were Rod Laver (of Australia), who won £2,000, and Billie Jean King (of the U.S.), taking home just £750. (Both ...
The total prize money at Wimbledon has reached £50m for the first time ahead of the 2024 Championships. The winner of the men’s and women’s singles titles will take home a record £2.7m each ...
The 2024 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior, wheelchair and Invitational tournaments were also scheduled.
The total prize money for this year’s Wimbledon across the men’s and women’s singles tournaments is up to a record £32,154,000.. It represents an increase of 10.9 per cent from 2022 and the ...
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Wimbledon's total prize money fund will rise to a record 50 million pounds (about $64 million), with the singles champions each earning 2.7 million pounds ($3.45 million), All England Club officials announced Thursday at the annual spring briefing.
By 1966, public interest in tennis had been low for some time. Cowgill suggested a trial pro tournament at Wimbledon for the following year. In late August, 1967, the Wimbledon Pro tournament was held. Total prize money was US$35,000 for singles and US$10,000 for doubles, making it the largest prize-money event in tennis history at that time.