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. This year’s tournament will also see tiebreaks employed at 12-12 in the deciding sets of all matches for the first time.

Source: Hindustan Times April 30, 2019 12:07 UTC