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Wimbledon pay raise
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Published 27/04/2004 at 14:42 GMT+1
The Wimbledon men's champion this year will receive 602,500 pounds ($1.08 million) after organisers announced a 4.8 percent increase in the singles prize money for the 2004 championships on Tuesday. The relative difference between men's and women's prizes
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The women's champion will receive 560,500 pounds up from 535,000 last year. Last year's men's winner Roger Federer pocketed 575,000 pounds.
Tim Phillips, chairman of the championships said the WTA had urged Wimbledon to close the gap. The Australian and U.S. Open championships pay men and women equally, though at the French Open the men still get more.
"We are trying to be fair to the men and women. The women's prize pot is over 4,000,000 pounds and the ladies' champion at today's exchange rate gets over a million dollars," Phillips said.
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