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TENNIS · PRIZE MONEY · 1991

Wimbledon 1991 prize money

Wimbledon 1991 paid out £4,010,970. Michael Stich took £240,000 as men's champion and Steffi Graf £216,000 as women's. A first-round loser took £3,600 in the men's draw and £2,790 in the women's.

FUND £4.0m
CHAMPION £240,000 men's singles
FIRST ROUND £3,600 men's singles
SINGLES DRAWS £2.4m 256 players

Every round of the 1991 singles

What each player took for the round they went out in, men and women apart

Wimbledon 1991 singles prize money by round, the men's and the women's draw side by side, with the women's figure as a share of the men's.
ROUND MEN WOMEN SHARE
Champion £240,000 £216,000 90%
Runner-up £120,000 £108,000 90%
Semi-finals £60,000 £52,500 87.5%
Quarter-finals £31,200 £26,520 85%
Fourth round £16,800 £13,440 80%
Third round £9,715 £7,530 77.5%
Second round £5,880 £4,560 77.6%
First round £3,600 £2,790 77.5%

The two singles main draws paid £2,400,760 between them, 59.9% of the fund.

What each round took between them

The men's singles draw: the players out in each round, and what they took together

Champion £240k
First round (64) £230k
Second round (32) £188k
Third round (16) £155k
Fourth round (8) £134k
Quarter-finals (4) £125k
Runner-up £120k
Semi-finals (2) £120k

A player is paid once, for the round they went out in, so the 64 first-round losers in the men's draw took £230,400 between them, less than the champion's £240,000.

Doubles and mixed

Per pair, for the round they went out in

Wimbledon 1991 prize money by round outside the singles: men's doubles, women's doubles, mixed.
ROUND MEN'S DOUBLESWOMEN'S DOUBLESMIXED
Champions £98,330£85,060£41,720
Runners-up £49,160£45,520£20,860
Semi-finals £25,230£20,190£10,430
Quarter-finals £13,100£10,480£4,800
Last 16 £6,980£5,230£2,400
Last 32 £3,790£2,840£1,200
Last 64 £2,220£1,610£540

The men's doubles champions shared £98,330, 41% of one men's singles champion's cheque, so each player took 20.5% of it.

1991 against the years either side

The same figures at 1990 and 1992

Wimbledon prize money in 1990, 1991, 1992: the fund, the champions, the first round and the singles draws.
1990 1991 1992
Fund £3,819,730£4,010,970£4,416,820
Men's champion £230,000£240,000£265,000
Women's champion £207,000£216,000£240,000
Men's first round £3,450£3,600£3,975
Singles draws £2,301,250£2,400,760£2,653,020

Against 1990, the men's champion's cheque moved +4.3% and the first round +4.3%. In 1992 the men's champion took £265,000, a move of +10.4%.

The Wimbledon champion's cheque, year by year

Every edition with a whole ladder, and 2026. The men's cheque where the two were paid apart

Every Wimbledon edition with a page: the fund, the singles champions, the champion's cheque and the first round.
YEAR CHAMPIONS CHAMPION FIRST ROUND FUND
2025 Jannik Sinner, Iga Świątek £3,000,000 £66,000 £53,550,000
2024 Carlos Alcaraz, Barbora Krejčíková £2,700,000 £60,000 £50,000,000
2023 Carlos Alcaraz, Markéta Vondroušová £2,350,000 £55,000 £44,700,000
2022 Novak Djokovic, Elena Rybakina £2,000,000 £50,000 £40,350,000
2021 Novak Djokovic, Ashleigh Barty £1,700,000 £48,000 £35,016,000
2019 Novak Djokovic, Simona Halep £2,350,000 £45,000 £38,000,000
2018 Novak Djokovic, Angelique Kerber £2,250,000 £39,000 £34,000,000
2017 Roger Federer, Garbiñe Muguruza £2,200,000 £35,000 £31,600,000
2016 Andy Murray, Serena Williams £2,000,000 £30,000 £28,100,000
2015 Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams £1,880,000 £29,000 £26,750,000
2014 Novak Djokovic, Petra Kvitová £1,760,000 £27,000 £25,000,000
2013 Andy Murray, Marion Bartoli £1,600,000 £23,500 £22,560,000
2012 Roger Federer, Serena Williams £1,150,000 £14,500 £16,060,000
2011 Novak Djokovic, Petra Kvitová £1,100,000 £11,500 £14,600,000
2010 Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams £1,000,000 £11,250 £13,725,000
2009 Roger Federer, Serena Williams £850,000 £10,750 £12,550,000
2008 Rafael Nadal, Venus Williams £750,000 £10,250 £11,812,000
2006 Roger Federer, Amélie Mauresmo £655,000 £9,830 £10,378,710
2000 Pete Sampras, Venus Williams £477,500 £7,160 £8,056,480
1993 Pete Sampras, Steffi Graf £305,000 £4,575 £5,048,450
1992 Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf £265,000 £3,975 £4,416,820
1991 Michael Stich, Steffi Graf £240,000 £3,600 £4,010,970
1990 Stefan Edberg, Martina Navratilova £230,000 £3,450 £3,819,730

Every major, every year

The singles champion's cheque at each, in its own currency

Frequently asked questions

How much did the Wimbledon 1991 champion get?

Michael Stich took £240,000 and Steffi Graf £216,000, 90% of the men's cheque.

How much did a first-round loser get at Wimbledon 1991?

£3,600 in the men's draw and £2,790 in the women's.

What was the total prize money at Wimbledon 1991?

£4,010,970. The two singles main draws took £2,400,760 of it, 59.9%.

Were men and women paid the same at Wimbledon 1991?

No. The men's champion took £240,000 and the women's £216,000. In the first round the men took £3,600 and the women £2,790, 77.5% of it.

How much did the doubles champions get at Wimbledon 1991?

£98,330 per pair in the men's doubles, 41% of what one men's singles champion took.

Where to next

Wimbledon prize money has the 2026 ladder round by round, with who went out where. Wimbledon prize money history has the fund and every champion's cheque since 1968. Who earned the most across the whole season is on tennis prize money in 1991. Men's vs women's tennis prize money sets the two tours side by side, or go back to tennis prize money.