{"id":593407,"date":"2026-05-19T23:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593407\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T23:57:13","slug":"queens-2026-prize-money-to-increase-by-35-for-womens-event-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593407\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen’s 2026: Prize money to increase by 35% for women’s event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minimum prize money levels are set by the ATP and WTA Tours themselves, and there have long been vast differences between what comparable, standalone men’s and women’s tournaments can attract.<\/p>\n

The WTA says major combined events should have equal prize money by 2027. Standalone events – which the Queen’s week technically is – have until 2033.<\/p>\n

The women’s event in Charleston, which was played on green clay at the beginning of April, offered total compensation of $2.5m. This matched the minimum sum required at an ATP 500 event. <\/p>\n

Charleston’s tournament is owned by American billionaire Ben Navarro – the father of 2024 US Open semi-finalist Emma.<\/p>\n

The LTA says over 90% of tickets have so far been sold for the women’s event at Queen’s, which begins on 8 June.<\/p>\n

Tatjana Maria won the title last year<\/a> as Queen’s hosted a women’s tour event for the first time since 1973.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, prize money for women at the WTA 250 event in Eastbourne in the week before Wimbledon will rise by 28% to $499,000 (\u00a3373,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minimum prize money levels are set by the ATP and WTA Tours themselves, and there have long been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}