2023 Wimbledon prize money: How much do the doubles champions get?
Wimbledon is are underway as of early Monday and while the singles tournaments are the big money makers, the doubles champions take in a pretty penny.
It’s the grass season’s main event, and maybe the classiest affair of the year for the classiest sport on Earth. The first round of the Wimbledon Championships singles tournaments began on Monday while the doubles matches begin on Wednesday. As always, there is big money awaiting the last men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles teams standing at the end of the two weeks from London.
Wimbledon: an example of equality
Of the many traditions that makes this tournament special, the pay distribution stands maybe above all else. The men and women dress in prIstine, all white outfits as the fans enjoy their strawberries and cream in the grand stands knowing that both the champion of the men’s and the women’s singles and doubles tournaments will be paid equally.
It has been a debate that has cast a grey cloud over the sport for a long time. It’s not a tennis issue, it’s not a sports issue, it’s a global issue. Men and women aren’t alway paid evenly, and many times athletes are able to use their platform to highlight in inequality socially and economically.
Since 2007, Wimbledon has paid their men’s and women’s singles champions the same amount and the men’s and women’s doubles champions the same amount. This isn’t a universal rule everywhere, but the All England club has been an example of the equality for tennis, and to all sports for almost two decades.
Highest doubles prize money ever at All England
This year the men’s and women’s doubles champions will earn a combined £600,000, which is a £60,000 bump from last year. Last year it was the Aussies, Mattew Ebden and Max Purcell taking the trophy in the men’s double’s title match. The Czech Republic’s duo of Barbora Krejčikova and Katerina Siniakova took the title in the women’s doubles bracket as both teams went home with £560,000.
This year the Czech champions will look to defend their title on the women’s side, while Purcell will be paired up with Jordan Thompson, looking to knock off the top seeded team of Neal Skupski and Wesley Koolhof.