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| Top seed Roger
Federer(left) kisses the trophy after defeating second seed
Andy Roddickand successfully defend his Wimbledon title;
Russia's Maria Sharapova(right) blows a kiss to the crowd, as
she holds the Women's Singles trophy on July 3,
2004. | |
Wimbledon will offer the most prize money in the history of tennis for
its 2005 Championships, increasing the pool by 3.9 percent to 10,085,510
pounds ($19.30m).
Women will continue to be paid less at the June 20-July 3 London
grasscourt grand slam, but the
gap is closing organizers said on Tuesday.
"Our decisions are always made on market forces and, in our judgement,
this is a fair decision to make," All England Club chairman Tim Phillips
told reporters.
Women's prize money for the singles was improved by 5.9 percent while
the men's singles money rose by 4.6 percent.
That means this year the Wimbledon men's singles champion will earn
630,000 pounds and the champion woman will get 600,000 pounds.
"The prize money available on the (women's) WTA Tour is still
substantially less than that on the (men's) ATP Tour and there are only
two tournaments in the world that pay men and women the same," Phillips
said, referring to the Australian and U.S. Opens.
"You will recall from previous years that there are all sorts of issues
we take into account; for example the leading women win a bigger
proportion of their prize money because unlike the men they play the
doubles as well. Women earn more per minute played and more per game. "
The 2004 French Open prize pot was 13.26m euros ($17.33m) while the
2005 Australian Open paid out 19.1m Australian dollars ($14.90m).
Security for the Wimbledon tournament will be stepped up for 2005.
Spectators will be restricted to one bag per person and hard-sided
hampers and cool-boxes will be
banned for the first time. Bag-searchers will be deployed in the queues
and searches of cars will be stepped up.
The 2005 Championships will also be the last for Alan Mills as referee.
He is stepping down after 23 years in the hot
seat.
(Agencies) |
2005年溫布爾登網球公開賽將提供網球賽事史上最高的一筆獎金，獎金總額將高達1008.551萬英鎊（約合1930萬美元），比上一屆增漲了3.9％。
賽事組織者本周二表示，今年6月20日到7月3日，在溫布爾登（位于倫敦附近）舉行的草地大滿貫賽上，女選手的獎金仍將低于男選手，不過男女選手獎金的差距正在縮小。
“我們通常根據市場和自己的判斷來做決定，這個決定是公平的。”全英網球俱樂部主席提姆·菲利普斯對記者說。
女子單打選手的獎金較往年提高了5.9%，男子單打的獎金則上升了4.6 %。
這意味著今年溫網男單冠軍將獲得63萬英鎊的獎金，女單冠軍也將有60萬英鎊入帳。
菲利普斯說：“世界女子職業網球協會巡回賽提供的獎金仍然遠遠低于世界男子職業網球協會巡回賽，目前世界上只有兩場網球巡回賽付給男女選手的報酬是相同的。”他指的是澳大利亞網球公開賽和美國網球公開賽。
“從前幾年開始，我們將各方面因素都列入到考慮范圍。比如頂級女子單打選手獲得的獎金份額會更大，因為和男子選手不同的是，她們同時還參加雙打比賽。如果按照每打一分鐘球或每一場球來算，女子選手賺得更多。”
2004法國網球公開賽開出的獎金是1326萬歐元（約合1733萬美元），而2005澳洲網球公開賽的獎金達到1910萬澳元（約合1490萬美元）。
2005溫布爾登網球公開賽的安全問題將格外受到重視。
屆時觀眾每人只限隨身攜帶一個包，硬邊的食物籃和保溫容器都將首次被禁止帶入場內。包袋檢查人員將成列配置，對汽車的檢查也會更加嚴格。
2005溫布爾登網球公開賽也將是裁判長艾倫·米爾斯的最后一次上場“執法”了。賽后，他將離開溫網賽場，他在這個職位上呆了23年，承受著巨大的壓力。
（中國日報網站譯） |
Updated: 2005-04-28 10:14
