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Wimbledon 2024 prize money: How much does the winner get?
Take a look at the prize money breakdown for the men’s and women’s singles tournaments at the Wimbledon Championships.
This year’s singles champions will each take home a 5.4% share of the £50 million ($65 million) total prize pot on offer at the Wimbledon Championships.
The men’s and women’s winners will both receive a cheque for £2.7 million ($3.5 million), an amount that represents a 14.9% improvement on the £2.35 million ($3 million) paid to the singles champions in 2023. The two runners-up at the All England Club will each get £1.4 million ($1.8 million), up 19.1% from the £1.53 million given to the losing finalists a year ago.
Wimbledon men's/women's prize money: at a glance
- Winner: £2.7 million
- Runner-up: £1.4 million
- Semi-finalists: £715,000
- Quarter-finalists: £375,000
- Fourth round: £226,000
- Third round: £143,000
- Second round: £93,000
- First round: £60,000
Equal pay at every grand slam in tennis
Men and women have received the same amount of prize money at Wimbledon since 2007, the first year of pay equality across all four grand slam events.
The US Open has offered equal prize money since back in 1973. The Australian Open followed suit in 1984, only to go back to paying men more in 1996. However, the tournament reversed this move five years later. The French Open began giving its champions the same amount in 2006, before introducing equal pay at every stage of the tournament the following year.
While there is equal prize money at every grand slam events, this is not the case in all regular-season elite competitions. Outside of the majors, indeed, there are only three combined events (championships that feature both a men’s and women’s tournament) that offer the same prize purse to both sexes: the Indian Wells Open, the Madrid Open and the Miami Open.
However, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) revealed in June 2023 that it had set about “creating a pathway toward equal prize money” in all combined top-tier events by 2027. “Equality, including equal compensation, is a fundamental principle of the WTA and it is crucial to attain this level,” said Steve Simon, the body’s chairman and CEO.
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After Marketa Vondrousova triumphed at Wimbledon in 2023, the women’s singles tournament could be won by a Czech for the second year running. Saturday’s final is to be contested by Brno native Barbora Krejcikova and Italy’s Jasmine Paolini, two players who have both reached the trophy decider for the first time.
Krejcikova beat Kazakhstan’s 2022 winner Elena Rybakina in three sets in the semi-finals - 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 - while Paolini’s last-four clash with Donna Vekic also went the distance, the 28-year-old edging out the Croat 2-6, 6-4, 7-6. The Italian is through to her second straight grand slam final, having last month lost out to Poland’s Iga Swiatek for the French Open title.
In the men’s singles, Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz remains on course to win his second straight Wimbledon title. The 2024 French Open champion beaten Russian Daniil Medvedev in four sets in today’s opening semi-final, coming from behind win 6-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.
Alcaraz will face either Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti or Serbia’s serial Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic in the final on Sunday. Musetti and Djokovic meet on Centre Court today, from around 11am ET/8am PT. Djokovic is aiming to draw level with Roger Federer’s record haul of eight men’s singles titles in SW19.
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Wimbledon 2024: how to watch in the USA
If you’re in the United States, you can watch the 2024 Wimbledon Championships on ABC, ESPN and the Tennis Channel.