The 121st Wimbledon Championships will be the richest tennis tournament in the history of the sport, and there?s no reason bettors can?t share the wealth.
BetOnline.com, where you have a choice of Big Bonuses or Low Juice, will have live lines available when Wimbledon gets going on June 25 at the All England Club in London.
The 2007 Wimbledon tournament will have prize money totaling ?11,282,710 (more than US $22 million), an increase of 8.7 per cent over 2006.
?No tennis tournament has ever offered higher prize money than Wimbledon in 2007,? All England Club chairman Tim Phillips says.
Wimbledon will also have, for the first time, gender parity in the prize money. The men's champion's purse is up by 6.9 per cent to ?655,000, while the women?s is boosted by 12 per cent in order to match that sum.
By contrast, in 1968, men's champion Rod Laver won ?2,000 while Billie Jean King collected just ?750 for winning the women's singles.
World No. 1 Roger Federer will be trying for his fifth consecutive Men's Singles Wimbledon Championship. The last player to accomplish that feat was Bjorn Borg (1976-80). Federer is at his best on grass courts like at Wimbledon, where he has 48 overall wins and 28 straight.
Rafael Nadal, the king of clay courts who beat Federer in the final at the 2007 French Open, has never won Wimbledon and is hoping to end Federer?s run. Other men?s players who could challenge Federer include Andy Roddick, who has twice finished as runner-up to the Swiss, and fast-rising Serbian, Novak Djokovic.
The women's singles appears much more open, having produced different champions over the past three years. The Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, who have held aloft the Venus Rosewater Dish in five of the last seven summers, will be among the favorites.
Defending women?s champion Amelie Mauresmo is still searching for her best form following an appendicitis operation earlier this year. The 2004 winner, Maria Sharapova, will be hoping recent shoulder problems will not hamper the sort of tennis she unveiled to win the US Open last September. Or it might just be the time for Justine Henin, the world number one, to win a Slam on grass.
BetOnline.com, where you have a choice of Big Bonuses or Low Juice, will have live lines available when Wimbledon gets going on June 25 at the All England Club in London.
The 2007 Wimbledon tournament will have prize money totaling ?11,282,710 (more than US $22 million), an increase of 8.7 per cent over 2006.
?No tennis tournament has ever offered higher prize money than Wimbledon in 2007,? All England Club chairman Tim Phillips says.
Wimbledon will also have, for the first time, gender parity in the prize money. The men's champion's purse is up by 6.9 per cent to ?655,000, while the women?s is boosted by 12 per cent in order to match that sum.
By contrast, in 1968, men's champion Rod Laver won ?2,000 while Billie Jean King collected just ?750 for winning the women's singles.
World No. 1 Roger Federer will be trying for his fifth consecutive Men's Singles Wimbledon Championship. The last player to accomplish that feat was Bjorn Borg (1976-80). Federer is at his best on grass courts like at Wimbledon, where he has 48 overall wins and 28 straight.
Rafael Nadal, the king of clay courts who beat Federer in the final at the 2007 French Open, has never won Wimbledon and is hoping to end Federer?s run. Other men?s players who could challenge Federer include Andy Roddick, who has twice finished as runner-up to the Swiss, and fast-rising Serbian, Novak Djokovic.
The women's singles appears much more open, having produced different champions over the past three years. The Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, who have held aloft the Venus Rosewater Dish in five of the last seven summers, will be among the favorites.
Defending women?s champion Amelie Mauresmo is still searching for her best form following an appendicitis operation earlier this year. The 2004 winner, Maria Sharapova, will be hoping recent shoulder problems will not hamper the sort of tennis she unveiled to win the US Open last September. Or it might just be the time for Justine Henin, the world number one, to win a Slam on grass.
