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Roger Federer Breaks $70 Million in Career Prize Money Earnings

The Insider — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:58:31 +0000

Its really hard to keep Roger Federer out of the headlines at the moment. Roger has just surpassed more than $70 million in Career Prize Money on the ATP Tour.

Federer has won 74 singles crowns on ATP World Tour, including 16 Grand Slams and 20 Masters 1000 series and earned $3,082,343 so far in this season.

Is there any chance of him breaking the $100 million mark? Only time will tell.

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Wimbledon 2012 Prizemoney Increased

The Insider — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:39:21 +0000

Wimbledon has just announced an increase in the total prizemoney for 2012. Total Wimbledon prizemoney will be £16.1m, an increase of 10% on 2011 (£14.6m).

The increases also extend to all rounds of the qualifying events (+21%), while per diems rise by 17% from £170 to £200 for a main draw player and £85 to £100 in qualifying.

The Men’s and Ladies’ Singles Champions will each receive £1,150,000, an increase of £50,000 (4.5%) on 2011. In overall terms, this means that 93% of all singles players will receive an increase in prize money of least 13%, while the remaining 7% will earn a minimum of £75,000.

Philip Brook, Chairman of the All England Club and The Championships, said “Wimbledon continues to be successful and we are delighted to share that success with the players by increasing total prize money by 10%, the largest increase since 1993. At the same time, we appreciate the need to help players meet the rising costs associated with professional tennis so the majority of the record £1.5m increase will be distributed to those who are knocked out in the early rounds of The Championships.”

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Indian Wells Has Huge Prizemoney Increase: Shame Points Are Still The Same

The Insider — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:39:08 +0000

Indian Wells has really pulled out all the stops and increased their prizemoney. Each singles winner will win a cool $1 million with finalists, semi-finalists and quarterfinalists will now earn $500,000, $200,000 and $100,000 respectively.

Its great to see they are stepping up the prizemoney, but they should thinking about getting the points increased to match.

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Australian Open 2012 to Be Richest Grand Slam Tennis Tournament

The Insider — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:15:30 +0000

Next year’s Australian Open will be the richest tournament in Grand Slam history. It was announced yesterday that the total prizemoney will be $25 million and $2.2 million will go to each singles winner.

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Stacey Allaster, President of WTA reports a 60% increase in sponsorship deals during the last 12 months

Dasha Sulimoff — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:28:42 +0000

In this video recorded during the Wimbledon Championships, Stacey Allaster sat down to talk about how women’s tennis has evolved over the past couple of years and how they have expanded the organization to China as well as to the social media scene in order to gain a wider fan base. It seems to be working because prize money levels at Grand Slams and other tournaments seem to be rising every year and the coverage of women’s tennis on television is increasing. This is great news for women’s tennis and I hope Stacey will continue doing a fantastic job for years to come in order to make tennis one of the major sports in the world. Go WTA!

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ATP Tour Prizemoney To Increase to Over $90 Million Per Year

The Insider — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:18:28 +0000

The ATP have announced that they will be raising their prizemoney for tournament by 30 percent over the next three years. The tour will be offering over $90 million in prizemoney per year.

Prize money at the World Tour Finals will go up from $5 million to $6.5 million.

“We are privileged to be experiencing a golden era in men’s professional tennis and it is fitting that the commitment and excellence of the players is recognized and rewarded in this way,” ATP executive chairman and president Adam Helfant said.

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Australian Open 2009 Will Have More Money Than Ever Before

The Insider — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:03:04 +0000

At the 2009 Australian Open men’s and women’s singles winners will receive an 18 percent increase from last year. Bringing the total prize money to $15.6 million.

It was announced on Wednesday that the singles winners will receive an additional $1.15 million each based on the current exchange rates.

The Australian Open is due to begin on the January 19th and finish on the February 1st. It will feature the prospect of Roger Federer winning his 14th major title to equal Pete Sampras’ record.

Federer lost in the semifinals at Melbourne Park to Novak Djokovic this year, then fell to Rafael Nadal in the final at the French Open and Wimbledon. Federer beat Andy Murray in the U.S. Open final for his 13th major.

Djokovic and Maria Sharapova are the defending champions. The tournament is set for its first night women’s final on Saturday, Jan. 30, following a move it made in 2005 to a night men’s singles championship on the final Sunday.

Tennis Australia chief executive Steve Wood said the tournament hopes to improve on this year’s attendance figure of 605,000, which bettered the 2007 total of 550,000.

“We think we’re in great shape,” he said.

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US Open – Heading Towards The Finals – Who Will Pick Up The Big Prizes

The Insider — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:25:27 +0000

Here we are in the second week of the US Open and getting down to the big money rounds. There has been so much happening at the US Open im not even too sure where to start. However, here is the wrap up from the tournament.

In the men’s draw they are down to the last two quarterfinal matches in which we will see Roger Federer take on unseeded Gilles Muller from Luxembourg. While in the other quarterfinal left it will see Americas last hope for the men’s title Andy Roddick, take on Novak Djokovic. The two players who have already won their quarterfinal matches and will meeting the first semifinal will be top see Raphael Nadal and he will play young Brit Andy Murray. Murray has produced some great performances in the tournament so far and he has never been this deep into a Grand Slam, so will be interesting to see how he fares against Rafa.

While on the Women’s side of the draw they have made their way to the semifinals. The first semi will see Dinara Safina head off against Serena Williams (who only just beat her sister in the previous round). While Elena Dementieva will play Jelana Jankovic in the other semi. While I’m not surprised to have seen Ana Ivanovic lose in the second round, it is just poor to think that it took her a really long time to get to the top and when she has been there she just hasn’t performed at all in the Grand Slams. I can’t see Ivanovic staying in the top 5 for too long if she continues to play the way she is playing, maybe too much promotional work is getting to her.

Overall there has been a lot happening on and off court at the US Open, which is normally the case cause it is heading towards the end of season. The more I see the US Open, I really just think they are losing touch with the other 3 Grand Slams. Australian Open is the players favourite, French Open is the one the Europeans want to win, Wimbledon is the big one, US Open just has the most money!

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Schuettler Is In Wimbledon Semi, But Could Have Been Playing in Cordoba

The Insider — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:35:39 +0000

Im currently sitting here watching Rainer Schuettler play Raphael Nadal in the semi final of Wimbledon and it really made me think about the tennis tours and levels of tours within the game. At the start of Wimbledon Rainer the 32 year old thought he was going to get through a round or two, and he was so confident that this was going to happen that he booked himself in for a challenger event in Cordoba. As it turns out he is now on center court in the Wimbledon semi final with a packed house watching him play, but if he did end up going to Cordoba he would have had 200 people watching him play, but only if he made the semis there. That also being said Rainer is going to receive a minimum of £187,500, but the Cordoba challenger has prize money in total of $100,000 but for all players.

So there is a huge difference between the level of tournaments, but the players arent really that different in level. Should there be a much smaller gap between prize money between tournament levels? Additionally, the ITF really need to think of ways to promote the sport, not just at the Grand Slam level, but more importantly at a basic tour level and also onto the Challenger and Future tournaments

Cordoba Challenger Results

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