Wimbledon’s ‘Singles’ Championship Million Pound Prize
The 2010 Wimbledon Championships begin June 21st and end July 4th and the winners will take away 1 million pounds in prize money. The All England Club , who hosts the Wimbledon Championships, apparently aren’t feeling the pinch of the global economic decline and announced in April that the men’s and women’s ‘singles’ with the winning Wimbledon scores will each pocket a million pounds.
The 2010 Wimbledon Champions will not only move up in the Wimbledon tennis rankings, but will move up on the Forbes rich list. As the trophies are presented July 4th, the All England Club will present the over-sized cheque on Center Court to the winners, but not announce just how much work went into gathering up this prestigious cash prize, they’ll most likely present the 1 million pounds without any fanfare or vulgarities like the US Open does. The disclosure of the million pound cash prize back in April, will be considered the only time the Club will discuss this amazing news.
This ‘singles’ winners prize is an 150,000 pound increase from 2009, and is considered quiet a feat, one that makes a bold statement about how solid the financial base is for the Wimbledon Championships. What helped with the decision to raise the cash prize is the weakened pound compared to the dollar and the Euro. The All England Club didn’t want their international tennis players to look at the currency exchange rate , which the sterling has fallen by 25%, and consider that their winnings was worth considerably less than that of the US Open, the French Open and the Australian Opens cash prizes. The amount of the ‘singles’ Champions prize money is considered very important to the All England Clubs board members because it demonstrates the fact of just how the Wimbledon Championships are successful and it demonstrates just how they really do care about the players themselves.
The players, after all, are what the Wimbledon Championships are all about, and it’s important to reward them properly for their extraordinary talent and skills in this highly competitive individual international sport.
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