As a much-needed incentive for players to compete at Wimbledon 2022 given that no qualification issues were awarded this time, the All England Lawn Tennis Club announced a historic overall prize fund: £40,350,000/£70,921,335 with equivalent salary for men and women.
As singles champions of their respective sexes, Novak Djokovic and Elena Rybakina have won £2,000,000/$3,516,020, as well as the prestigious Grand Slam name and the accompanying Grand Slam trophy. to date. Russian-born talent, meanwhile, earned an inaugural top name for her and her follower country, Kazakhstan.
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While their worthy warring parts in ardent Australian maverick Nick Kyrgios, who progressed wonderfully after the retirement of an injured Rafael Nadal, and the Tunisian ons Jabeur force excursion failed in the last Wimbledon final, they don’t feel so bad about it. In addition to some shiny new silver plates, the 2022 finalists also won £1,050,000/£1,845,910.
So why is the All England Lawn Tennis Club so keen to potentially lose the biggest names in the game by setting up qualifying point restrictions when this year’s occasion promised crowds at full capacity for the first time since before COVID-19?
Like many facets of fashion life right now, it has to do with President Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. In reaction to foreign hostility, Wimbledon imposed disqualification statutes on 16 Russian and Belarusian players, and added the current king of the ranks, Daniil Medvedev (who would have been a main draw, if not the main one).
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“Yeah, I think it’s difficult,” said Cameron Norrie, the top-ranked British men’s player at No. 12.
“It’s hard, you know. Morally, the English club did the right thing. I like the fact that they were pretty much into it with that.
“But I feel sorry for some players, especially [No. 1 Daniil Medvedev] and [No. 8 Andrey Rublev], who have a smart chance of winning the tournament. So I feel sorry for those guys who are so committed to tennis and so professional.
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The budget generated through The Championships, minus taxes, is used through LTA to expand tennis in Britain,” Wimbledon explains.
In December 2008, the Club and the LTA agreed that the LTA would gain advantages by receiving 90% of any distributable monetary surplus resulting from the Championships until at least 2053.
AELTC would obtain LTA’s 50% stake in All England Lawn Tennis Ground plc (the company that owns the Wimbledon tennis site and services). The capital was freed up in 2013 for LTA to invest in British tennis and its services at all levels.
For the Club, which first ceded this 50% stake to the LTA in 1934, the transaction gives the Club full ownership and site, allowing it to pursue its core purpose of maintaining the Championship as the world’s premier tennis event. , with amenities to match.
– Wimbledon official website
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