TENNIS NEWS - Wimbledon prize money will total 38 million pounds ($49.4 million) for this year's championships, a rise of 11.8 percent, the All England Club announced on Tuesday.
The men's and women's singles champions will receive 2.35 million pounds – 100 000 more than in 2018.
Continuing a theme of recent years, organisers have again significantly raised prize money for early-round losers.
Prize money for qualifying and rounds one to three in the singles will rise by 10 percent with 45 000 pounds now the compensation for a first-round singles exit.
