Equal pay at Wimbledon? Winner of the men’s singles title will take home £2 million – so how much did the ladies’ winner Elena Rybakina earn yesterday?
- Novak Djokovic and Nick Kyrgios will battle out Wimbledon’s men’s singles today
- Yesterday, Elena Rybakina won the ladies’ singles title against Ons Jabeur
- Both men’s and ladies’ winners will bring £2million home, runners-up £1.05m
Either Novak Djokovic or Nick Kyrgios will be winning big today at Wimbledon, not only scooping the men’s singles title, but also £2 million in prize money.
The players kept relations civil in the run-up to the final, agreeing on social media that the winner will take the runner-up out for dinner once the tournament is over.
And whichever player emerges victorious, both athletes should have plenty of cash in the bank to pay for their night out, with the winner taking home £2m and the runner-up scooping £1,050,000.
Today’s match follows the ladies’ final yesterday, which saw Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina trounce Tunisian ace Ons Jabeur, with a 3-6 6-2 6-2 victory over the Tunisian world No.2.
Elena Rybakina was awarded £2 million for her efforts, matching the prize money for the men.
In Grand Slam tournaments like Wimbledon, the US and French Open, male and female players win the same amount of prize money across their respective categories.
However, outside of these events, a gender pay gap still exist in tennis, with female players earning around 80 per cent of what their male counterparts win on average.
Here, FEMAIL reveals how much players win at all levels of Wimbledon, and how it compares to other tournaments.
Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina won the Women’s Singles, trashing Tunisian ace Ons Jabeur with a 3-6 6-2 6-2 victory over the Tunisian world No.2 yesterday
Australian player Nick Kyrgos will face off against Novak Djokovic this afternoon at Wimbledon
WIMBLEDON
Wimbledon has an overall estimated cash pot of £40 million to split between winners.
The winners and runners-up of the women’s and men’s single titles take home the biggest chunks of the prize money.
Wimbledon’s prize money by rounds
Men and Women’s singles
Winner – £2,000,000
Runner-up – £1,050,000
Semi-Finals – £535,000
Quarter-Finals – £310,000
Fourth Round – £190,000
Third Round – £120,000
Second Round – £78,000
First round – £50,000
Regardless of gender, singles’ winners will take home the highly sought after £2 million.
Meanwhile, their rivals in the tournament final will get a little over half that sum, scooping £1,050,000.
Cameron Norrie, who lost against Djokovic during the semi-finals, walked away with £535,000, which is more than half his total earnings for 2022.
Meanwhile, players who made it to the quarter-finals won £310,000, and the players eliminated form the first round get £50,000 to take home.
Players who win the men’s and women’s doubles all take home £540,000 per pair, while mixed doubles winners receive £124,000 in prize money.
Meanwhile, winners of the gentlemen and ladies’ wheelchair singles get £51,000.
While Wimbledon winners win the same whether they are men or women, depending on their category, this was not always the case.
In fact, female players used to earn less than their male counterparts.
It was not until 2007, when the rules were changed, that they started winning the same amount of prize money.
OTHER COMPETITIONS
US Open
Not all Grand Slam competitions pay the same, however, earnings are equal between male and female players.
In all competitions, even players who just won their Round 1 match will take home some money.
The US Open, which was the first competition to introduce equal earnings between men and female players, had a total prize pot of a record £48.1million( $57.5 million) in 2021.
Emma Raducanu pocketed £1.8million ($2,5million) after beating Leylah Fernandez in the final in September.
It was the same as the Men’s winner Daniil Medvedev, who beat Djokovic 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 that year.
Fernandez and Djokovic still took home a sizable £1.03million for their efforts.
Meanwhile, the winners of the men’s, women’s and mixed doubles all took home £548,651 ($660,000) in the competition.
Australian Open
The overall money prize for the US Open was £44,470,000 earlier this year.
Australia introduced equal prize money for men and women in 2005.
Rafael Nadal took home £1,72million ($2,07million) when he won the Australia Open earlier this year, with runner-up Daniil Medvedev walking away from the title with £943,167 ($1,13million).
The Australian player Ashleigh Barty, who won the Women’s competition against the American ace Danielle Collins, took home the same amount of women.
Prize money for the first round of the Open was £61,680 ($74,198).
Meanwhile, Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková defeated Anna Danilina and Beatriz Haddad in the Women’s doubles, and won £404,214( $486,250)
French Open
The overall estimated prize money for the French Open totaled £39,06million ($46.7 million) when the competition took place in early June
The French Open introduced equal prize money for men and women in 2006.
Rafael Nadal, won his second Grand Slam title of the year when he competed at Roland Garros, and added £1.95million ($2,35million) to his overall 2022 earnings.
The Spanish ace trashed Casper Ruud 6-3 6-3 6-0 to win his 14th French Open title on June 5.
Ruud, who is the World’s No.6 player, won £979,202 ($1,17million) for his efforts.
Meanwhile, Polish player Iga Świątek won the Women’s competition against French ace Alizé Cornet and took home the same amount of money as Nadal.
Novak Djokovic, who beat British ace Cameron Norrie on Friday, is chasing his 14th Grand Slam title
OUTSIDE GRAND SLAM EVENTS
While Grand Slam competitions have introduced equal prize money for female and male players, it is not true of other events worldwide, and women are still on the losing end of the stick.
A 2022 study by money.co.uk published in May showed that males tennis players still earned 34.32 per cent more than their female counterparts, in spite of tennis having the lowest gender pay gap in sports.
There is a bigger discrepancy between what women earn in Grand Slams compared to men, and what they earned on tour.
The Rome Open in late May was criticised when it surfaced that the winner of the Men’s Singles would take home £714,888, while his female counterpart would only win £283,996.
In 2021, 11 male tennis players won more than £1million in earnings on tour, but only four female players did so.
The difference in earning also showed that the best paid player on tour – Alexander Zverev – earned £3,8million, while the best played female players, Garbiñe Muguruza, only earned £1,79MILLION.
Meanwhile, at the 2015 Western & Southern Open in Ohio, Serena Williams was paid £411,488 ($595,717) for winning the women’s tournament title while Roger Federer was paid £607,672 ($731,000).
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