Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Coco Gauff all expressed “disappointment” at the percentage of revenue players are allocated at the slams.<\/p>\n ![\"Jannik](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/skynews-sinner-wimbledon_7282001.jpg\")
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\n Jannik Sinner, who won Wimbledon last year, has complained about the money allocated to players at Grand Slams. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n
Some players took a stand against the pay row by leaving media commitments after 15 minutes, a number symbolising their revenue share, which is around 14.4%.<\/p>\n
It is still below the 14.9% share a decade ago, despite revenues going up by \u00a3280m over that period.<\/p>\n
The total prize money this year is \u00a364.2m, which is shared among the 128 men and 128 women at the competition.<\/p>\n
The prize for winning the first round is \u00a380,000, with the figure steadily climbing to \u00a33.6m for the eventual winners of the competition.<\/p>\n
That figure is \u00a3600,000 more than the \u00a33m last year.<\/p>\n
“It’s not about me. \u2060It’s about the players who are lower in the ranking, who are suffering,” Sabalenka \u2060said.<\/p>\n
“But as the world No 1, I feel like I have to stand up and to fight for those players.”<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the All England Club told the Press Association: “We are surprised and disappointed by this action.<\/p>\n
“Wimbledon puts the players at the heart of all our decisions and we invest significantly in them every year. This year’s total prize money fund has increased by 20 per cent to \u00a364.2 million, which is the largest increase in our event’s history.<\/p>\n
“This is alongside investing hundreds of millions of pounds in upgrades to our player facilities as part of a three-year transformation to create a world-class player performance environment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the world’s top tennis players plan to protest over prize money during this year’s Wimbledon tournament.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656466","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\/656466","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=656466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}