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Wimbledon prize money to increase to £20million with winner taking £1.5m - Nick Harris

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The prize pot at this summer’s Wimbledon championship is set to leap by 25 per cent to a record £20million after the All England Club bowed to demands from players that they needed a greater share of the tournament’s spoils.

The Club will detail the hikes in pay on Tuesday, but Inside Sport understands that the singles champions will earn a whopping £1.5m each, a huge rise of £350,000 (or 30 per cent) on last year.

Andy Murray will be among the favourites to lift the men’s title in SW19 and benefit from the prize increases which have been won via hard lobbying from top stars on behalf of all those on the pro circuit.

Incentive: Wimbledon will raise their prize money to £20m with the singles champions earning £1.5m

The extraordinary increases in pay will bring Wimbledon in line with the other Grand Slam events upping their prize funds in recent times — and further rises are on the cards. Wimbledon’s total prize fund of £16.06m in 2012, including £1.15m for the singles winners, already represented a 10 per cent rise on 2011.

The rises between 2011-2012 particularly benefited early-round losers, with those beaten in the first round seeing a hike of 26 per cent from £11,500 to £14,500. Players eliminated early are expected to see further rises this summer.

Wimbledon and the three other Slam championships have moved to head off ongoing unrest among players unhappy at the percentage of revenue from the majors being passed on through prizemoney.

Cashing in: Roger Federer pocketed £1.15m for beating Andy Murray in the 2012 final

Player bodies, the ATP and WTA, have been seeking better pay throughout the Grand Slams, arguing that it is hard for some of the  lower-ranked players to meet expenses accrued on what is a global tour.

The Australian Open’s total prize fund in January was £20.3m, including £1.64m for the winners of the singles titles. The French Open singles winners will get £1.3m this year, a rise of 20 per cent on 2012, while second, third and fourth-round losers will earn 25 per cent more. The US Open have increased their 2013 prize pot to £21.9m and that is likely to exceed £33m by 2017.

  Given away: Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich

Roman’s VIP giveaway

Roman Abramovich was so peeved that Chelsea were knocked out of the FA Cup by Manchester City last Sunday that he’s given away his VIP box at Wembley for next month’s final. 

He uses the corporate facility, thought to cost around £100,000 a year and catering for up to eight, whenever Chelsea play at Wembley and lets family, friends and business associates use it for other occasions.

But he was so fed up when Chelsea lost 2-1 to City that he agreed to give it away for the final on May 11, when City face Wigan. 

He donated the box to a charity auction staged on Tuesday in aid of a children’s theatre — and it sold for £5,500 to the billionaire Reuben brothers, David and Simon, British businessmen rated among the wealthiest 100 people in the world.

End of the road: Manchester City beat Chelsea 2-1 in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley

  Hooligan figures don’t add up

Football hooliganism in England and Wales is not on the rise, according to the latest official figures — and despite the violent clashes involving Millwall and Newcastle last weekend.

But Government data does suggest that newly promoted Cardiff City will arrive in the Premier League next season with the most football banning orders against their fans than any of the other 91 clubs in the Premier and Football Leagues.

Shocking: Millwall fans fought among themselves during their FA Cup semi-final defeat by Wigan at Wembley

Cardiff currently have 135 banning orders, equating to six out of every 1,000 fans among Cardiff’s average home crowd of almost 23,000 this season. Chelsea have the next highest number of fans banned, 112, equating to almost three people per thousand of their average crowd.

But Dr Geoff Pearson, of the University of Liverpool, an expert on football disorder, says the two clubs may have ‘unnaturally’ high numbers of bans still in place from a single incident, the so-called Battle of King’s Road, when 200 fans of the clubs fought after an FA Cup match in February 2010 — and more than 50 ended up with football-related convictions.

Dr Pearson also adds that arrests and banning orders do not always accurately reflect the scale of a problem. ‘You might have two people fighting at a game one week and both are arrested,’ he said.

Thugs: Newcastle supporters clashed with police after their 3-0 Tyne-Wear derby defeat

‘The next week, 200 might be fighting and the priority could be to control the disorder, but nobody is actually arrested.’

Even so, the overall figures do give some idea of each club’s hooligan problem. Chelsea’s 112 banning orders contrasts with close neighbours Fulham, who have just five, while Cardiff’s 135 is more than twice Swansea’s 64.

Dr Pearson is adamant that English football is not regressing to the ‘dark days of hooliganism’. He said: ‘Levels of football violence have been largely static for 10-15 years. Disorder in and around grounds remains far less of a problem than in the Seventies and Eighties.’

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