Wimbledon 2022 Prize Money: Elena Rybakina, Nick Kyrgios Pocket Millions

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In Grand Slam tournaments, male and female players get the same amount of prize money
Players at the Wimbledon 2022 who made it to the semi-finals will take home £535,000 ($640,502)
Players who made it to the quarter-finals will go home with £310,000 ($371,132)

Wimbledon 2022 has officially wrapped up. On Sunday, Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic earned his seventh Wimbledon title after defeating Nick Kyrgios.

How much is he getting? As per Daily Mail, Djokovic, who won his 21st Grand Slam title overall, will receive a prize of £2 million ($2.39 million).

This is reportedly lower compared to the £2.35 million ($2.81 million) prize before the pandemic.

Australian tennis star Kyrgios, the runner-up, will get £1.05 million ($1.26 million) as part of the record £40.3 million ($48.25 million) overall pool. That is up by £5 million ($5.99 million) from the total 2021 prize fund.

Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina, who defeated Tunisian ace Ons Jabeur at the women's singles final and claimed her first Grand Slam title, will also get £2million ($2.39 million). Jabeaur will receive £1.05 million ($1.26 million).

In Grand Slam tournaments like Wimbledon, the U.S. and French Open, male and female players get the same amount of prize money. Ooutside of these events, a gender pay gap still exists, with female players earning around 80% of what their male counterparts get.

Players at the Wimbledon 2022 who made it to the semi-finals will take home £535,000 ($640,502). Those who made it to the quarter-finals will get £310,000 ($371,132), and the players eliminated from the first round will take home £50,000 ($59,860).

Djokovic is now one grand slam title behind the record set by Rafael Nadal of 22.

While receiving his trophy, Djokovic got "lost words for what this tournament and this trophy means to me."

"It always has been and will be the most special one in my heart. It motivated me to play in my small mountain resort and I saw Pete Sampras win and I asked my mom and dad to buy me a racquet," he said.

"It was my first image of tennis -- every single time it gets more meaningful, and I'm blessed to be standing here with the trophy," added the champion.

“It’s a fairy tale,” Rybakina said after receiving the Venus Rosewater Dish trophy from Kate Middleton, The Duchess of Cambridge.

“I was super nervous before the match, during the match and, honestly, happy that it finished,” Rybakina added.

Rybakina, a 23-year-old ranked No. 23, is the second-lowest-ranked woman to win Wimbledon after Venus Williams.