The men’s and women’s champions will receive £750,000 each, an increase of 7.1 per cent, whilst prize money for each of the men's and women's doubles events will top one million pounds for the first time, with the winning pairs receiving 230,000 pounds.
Ritchie also said that building work to fit a retractable roof for the 2009 Championship was on schedule. The Championships have regularly run into the middle Sunday due to bad weather at the tour's grass court Grand Slam tournament, but organisers confirmed yesterday that they will stick with a 13-day schedule, despite strong arguments in favour of making `People’s Sunday` a permanent fixture.
This year’s tournament runs from June 23 to July 6.
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