{"id":365,"date":"2013-04-28T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T10:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:20:03","slug":"wimbledon-splashes-the-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/odds-and-sods\/wimbledon-splashes-the-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon splashes the cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All England Club has announced a significant increase in prize money for the Wimbledon Championships 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Players can look forward to a hike of 40%,making Wimbledon the most lucrative of all the four major championships.<\/p>\n<p>The tournamount winners will each receive \u00a31.6 million (a jump from \u00a31.15 million in 2012) and the overall price fund has increased by \u00a36.5 million to a bumper \u00a322.6 million booty.<\/p>\n<p>In percentage terms, the biggest increases are focused on players who lose either in qualifiers or the early rounds of the tournament. Doubles players also enjoy a 22% increase in their share of the loot.<\/p>\n<p>The historic club also announced plans to install a roof over the second showcourt. Court No. 1 will enjoy a retractable roof by the 2019 tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Tennis Discussions\" href=\"\/forum\/\">Discuss this and more with fellow tennis fans in our community forums.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All England Club has announced a significant increase in prize money for the Wimbledon Championships 2013. Players can look forward to a hike of 40%,making Wimbledon the most lucrative of all the four major championships. The tournamount winners will each receive \u00a31.6 million (a jump from \u00a31.15 million in 2012) and the overall price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[781,75,74,779,73,113],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odds-and-sods","tag-atp","tag-new-roof","tag-prize-money","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}