LONDON (AP) — The whole prize cash at Wimbledon this yr will rise by greater than 11%, with the winners of the singles every getting 2.35 million kilos ($3 million).

The whole prize fund on the championships can be 44.7 million kilos ($56.5 million), the All England Club mentioned Wednesday. That is a rise of 17.1% in comparison with 2019, the final Wimbledon earlier than the pandemic.

The earnings for the winners of the singles competitions are again to the degrees they had been in 2019. The prize for the singles champions had dipped to 1.7 million kilos in 2021, after the event was canceled in 2020, and was 2 million final yr.

Officials mentioned a precedence was positioned on supporting gamers within the early rounds. Those who lose within the first spherical will earn 55,000 kilos ($69,500), a ten% improve from final yr.

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