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2 weeks ago | espn.in | D'Arcy Maine

Wimbledon has increased its prize money for this year's championships to 53.5 million pounds ($72.59 million), a 7% increase on 2024 and double what was offered a decade ago, the All England Lawn Tennis Club said Thursday. The singles champions will receive 3 million pounds ($4.07 million) each, the highest across all Grand Slams and a 11.1% increase on the prize money that Carlos Alcaraz and Barbora Krejcikova took home last year.

2 weeks ago | espn.ph | D'Arcy Maine

Wimbledon has increased its prize money for this year's championships to 53.5 million pounds ($72.59 million), a 7% increase on 2024 and double what was offered a decade ago, the All England Lawn Tennis Club said Thursday. The singles champions will receive 3 million pounds ($4.07 million) each, the highest across all Grand Slams and a 11.1% increase on the prize money that Carlos Alcaraz and Barbora Krejcikova took home last year.

2 weeks ago | espn.com | D'Arcy Maine

VICTORIA, Canada -- Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh has done it again. The 18-year-old made it three world records in less than a week when she broke her own 400-meter individual medley mark Wednesday night. McIntosh won at the Canadian swimming trials in 4 minutes, 23.65 seconds to lower her previous best in one of the sport's toughest events by 0.73 seconds. Her closest rival was 12 seconds behind. "What a week Victoria! Had so much fun in the pool this week," McIntosh wrote on Instagram.

2 weeks ago | espn.com | D'Arcy Maine

MONACO -- Kenya's Benard Kibet Koech, who finished fifth in the men's 10,000-meter final at the Paris Olympics, has been provisionally suspended for suspected doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Wednesday. The athlete has been notified of a charge relating to irregularities in his athlete biological passport, the AIU said. The biological passport can detect possible irregularities in blood values assessed over time without an athlete testing positive for a banned substance.

2 weeks ago | espn.in | D'Arcy Maine

Women players who choose to undergo a fertility protection procedure will be allowed to take time away from the sport and return to competitive action with a protected ranking, the governing body of women's tennis (WTA) said Wednesday. The new rule aims to support women athletes with balancing their family goals and career ambitions and comes three months after the WTA offered players up to 12 months of paid maternity leave for the first time.