The women\u2019s singles final was certainly less competitive, with Iga Swiatek brushing Amanda Anisimova<\/a> aside to win her sixth Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n Like any tennis tournament, Wimbledon is not averse to criticism<\/a> and they have now been called out by two players who were in qualifying this year.<\/p>\n All four of the Grand Slam tournaments have a qualifying draw, consisting of 128 players in both men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles.<\/p>\n These 128 players compete over three rounds, before being whittled down to 16 players from each draw who will all be granted a spot in the main draw.<\/p>\n The Australian Open<\/a>, Roland Garros<\/a> and the US Open<\/a> all host their qualifying on the same site, but Wimbledon<\/a> does not and instead holds it 3.7 miles away in Roehampton.<\/p>\n One of the players competing in Wimbledon qualifying this year was former world number 20 Daria Saville, who actually lost in the first round.<\/p>\n Her namesake and new Australian compatriot Daria Kasatkina<\/a> spoke to Saville about what she thought of playing at Wimbledon qualifying this year for her YouTube channel.<\/p>\n Discussing a number of different topics, Saville called out the food, quality of the grass courts and the reason Wimbledon changed the prize money.<\/p>\n Saville: \u201cI haven\u2019t eaten because it sucks here.\u201d<\/p>\n Kasatkina: \u201cLike sucks? We are comparing the main site to the qualies, what you can tell us about this?\u201d<\/p>\n Saville: \u201c\u2026It\u2019s fine\u2026To be fair I don\u2019t have appetite so\u2026Main draw food, I mean it\u2019s still good food, but the worst out of all Slams.\u201d<\/p>\n Kasatkina: \u201cWorse than Paris?\u201d<\/p>\n Saville: \u201cActually I think so. In Paris, well there\u2019s no sushi. The sushi in Paris is better.\u201d<\/p>\n Kasatkina followed up with a question about the grass, \u201cHow are the courts here?\u201d<\/p>\n Saville responded, \u201cHmm, I mean it\u2019s\u2026the grass was high. I mean it\u2019s windy, it\u2019s slow, high.\u201d<\/p>\n Wimbledon increased the combined singles prize pot<\/a> for the main draw and qualifying this year by over 9%, but the most significant increase from this went to champions Sinner<\/a> and Swiatek<\/a>, who took home \u00a33million each.<\/p>\n This is something that Saville appeared particularly passionate about, claiming that all players would want more of the increase in prize money to go to players in the first round.<\/p>\n \u201cDid you know the prize money they increased by 7% or whatever, but it really is only five because they increase the winners prize money,\u201d said Saville. \u201cSo only winner gets 7% increase. Because it\u2019s more about headlines, \u2018Oh now our champion makes more prize money than every other Grand Slam winner\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery tennis player would agree that you get more prize money in the lower rounds, every tennis player would sign up for it. I mean no-one is guaranteed to win it.\u201d<\/p>\n WimbledonWFSFQFR16R32R64R1282024\u00a32,700,000\u00a31,400,00\u00a3715,000\u00a3375,000\u00a3226,000\u00a3143000\u00a393,000\u00a360,0002025\u00a33,000,000\u00a31,520,000\u00a3775,000\u00a3400,000\u00a3240,000\u00a3152,000\u00a399,000\u00a366,000<\/p>\n Saville is not the only player who was frustrated by the way that players were treated in Wimbledon qualifying, with another Australian Arina Rodionova also criticising the event.<\/p>\n Rodionova, who was knocked out in the second round of qualifying, was also critical of the courts, and she also called out the general facilities and lack of equipment.<\/p>\n Rodionova said, \u201cThe grass is so slow here, everyone is like breaking each other oh my god.\u201d<\/p>\n Kasatkina added: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t look bad, I mean the whole facilities looks pretty good actually.\u201d<\/p>\n Rodionova: \u201cThe problem is that if you want to go to the WTA office it\u2019s about 10 minutes that way. Physio is like 500 metres, so you go that way there to the right and to the right (pointing). Gym, I don\u2019t know, I haven\u2019t seen but from what I heard it\u2019s there\u2026Yeah, but it\u2019s so far like if you want to go grab ice also like that way. It\u2019s just like\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Kasatkina: \u201cNot convenient.\u201d<\/p>\n Rodionova: \u201cNo, locker rooms also like that way kind of like the gym area\u2026Food is the same. So there\u2019s been no changes for the past 15 years. So they like the traditions and consistency at Wimbledon, so they still use the same chickens I think from the same family for the past 15 years (laughs).\u201d<\/p>\n Rodionova continued, \u201cAlso there\u2019s no f\u2014\u2014 air conditioning anywhere. It\u2019s so, like on Saturday it was like 30 degrees (Celsius). I thought we\u2019re all going to die here, because you don\u2019t have a place where you can actually sit. Like locker rooms, oh my god. <\/p>\n \u201cBut actually this place is pretty bad. And they run out of everything. They\u2019re like, \u2018Oh we\u2019re like out of balls\u2019. I\u2019m like, \u2018I\u2019m sorry. Well you do know there\u2019s a Grand Slam going on right? I need to practice\u2019. They\u2019re like water bottles, they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh come back, we\u2019re waiting for a shipment it\u2019s not there yet\u2019. I\u2019m like, \u2018Did you not know that you have a tournament going on?\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Kasatkina: \u201cAre you allowed on the main site?\u201d<\/p>\n Rodionova: \u201cI feel like I\u2019m not even allowed in half of the places here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n![\"Daria](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2217181393-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Franco Arland\/Getty ImagesDaria Saville and Arina Rodionova call out Wimbledon for their treatment of players during qualifying<\/p>\n