{"id":16513,"date":"2020-07-12T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T09:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=23390"},"modified":"2020-07-12T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T09:54:34","slug":"wimbledon-hailed-as-class-act-for-10-million-pound-prize-money-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/wimbledon-hailed-as-class-act-for-10-million-pound-prize-money-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon hailed as \u201cClass Act\u201d for 10 million pound prize money gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon was hailed as \u201ca class act\u201d on Friday after the tournament agreed to award 10 million pounds in prize money to the 620 players who would have taken part in the tournament had it not been cancelled. The All England Club said that based on world rankings, 224 players who would have competed in qualifying will each receive 12,500 pounds while the 256 players who would have featured in main draw singles will get 25,000 pounds. In doubles, it will be 6,250 pounds, for wheelchair events, the sum would be 6,000 pounds per player, with 5,000 pounds for quad wheelchair competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary tennis player and multiple time grand slam champion took to twitter to laud Wimbledon for their amazing gesture.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amazing news \u2014 always a class act and leader of our sport !! Well done <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Wimbledon<\/a> \u2013 can\u2019t wait to be back next year ! \ud83d\udc9a\ud83d\udc9c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BFok5ZSDQI\">https:\/\/t.co\/BFok5ZSDQI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kim Clijsters (@Clijsterskim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Clijsterskim\/status\/1281625151088529408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon, which would have been hosting its finals this weekend, was cancelled for the first time since the Second World War due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know these months of uncertainty have been very worrying for the players, many of whom have faced financial difficulty during this period and who would have quite rightly anticipated the opportunity to earn prize money at Wimbledon based on their world ranking,\u201d said All England Club chief executive Richard Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased that our insurance policy has allowed us to recognise the impact of the cancellation on the players and that we are now in a position to offer this payment as a reward for the hard work they have invested in building their ranking to a point where they would have gained direct entry into The Championships 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previously, when tennis had been suspended early this year due to the health crisis, Wimbledon had been applauded for their foresight. They had taken a pandemic insurance over the years, because of which they were able to avail of its benefits this year to provide some much needed financial relief.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers will also distribute money to officials and some international umpires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust when you thought you couldn\u2019t love @Wimbledon any more,\u201d tweeted Britain\u2019s Marcus Willis, who famously reached the second round in 2016, where he lost to Roger Federer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon has decided to award prize money to all 620 players who would have otherwise played the tournament if not for the coronavirus pandemic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":37373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[202,250],"class_list":["post-16513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}