Wimbledon Prize Money 2021: How Much Will Winners Take Home?

Wimbledon, also known as The Championships, is the first tennis tournament in the world where the greatest athletes gather and prove their worth. Being widely considered as the most prestigious tennis competition in the world, how much prize money is at stake?

The total prize money up for grabs at The Championships this year is about $48.5 million, with the grand champion for the singles category getting approximately $2.4 million. In addition to the cash prize, the winner will get 2,000 points for the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) or the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings, according to WTA Tennis.

On the other hand, the tournament will also give a finalist about $1.25 million, a semifinalist about $650,000, a quarterfinalist about $400,000, a fourth-rounder about $250,000, a third-rounder about $160,000, a second-rounder about $100,000 and a first-rounder about $65,000, the association said.

Meanwhile, the winners of the doubles event will receive about $1.1 million while the winner of the mixed doubles will get approximately $140,000. The tournament will be able to accommodate 100% of its capacity over the finals weekend for viewers because Wimbledon is part of the government’s next phase of pilot events, the Independent reported.

The tournament took a break for nearly two years due to the restrictions brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s competition also marks the much-anticipated return of Andy Murray to the singles event since his last appearance in 2017 after suffering a hip problem, according to the news outlet.

This year’s prize pool is comparatively much less compared to the last tournament held in 2019 that had a $3.3 million cash prize for the singles champion and about $750,000 for the doubles champions, as per Wimbledon.

The highly anticipated tennis tournament in the world already saw seven withdrawals way before the matches could even begin, all of whom were women. The list included Naomi Osaka, Simona Halep, Jennifer Brady, Wang Qiang, Zheng Saisai, Kirsten Flipkens and Margarita Gasparyan.

With the number of withdrawals, eight players were able to enter the competition using their special ranking, namely: Elena Vesnina, Carla Suarez Navarro, Andrea Petkovic, Samantha Stosur, Coco Vandeweghe, Mona Barthel, Kateryna Kozlova and Mihaela Buzarnescu.