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Sep 8, 2023 · Less than 20 years ago, the five-time champion was instrumental in fighting for WTA players to receive the same prize money as their male counterparts. It was a two-year fight that began with a speech to the Grand Slam Committee on the eve of winning the 2005 final and was followed by an impassioned letter in The Times newspaper the following year.
Apr 18, 2022 · In 2007, Williams became the first women’s singles champion to earn truly equal prize money, equivalent to $1.4 million, when she won the competition for the fourth time.
Sep 25, 2024 · When Venus Williams won her first major title at the singles event of the 2000 Wimbledon Championships, she was handed a cheque of $696,858. Then a day later, the men’s singles champion at the same tournament, Pete Sampras, was handed a cash prize of $717,721. A clear pay gap of $20,863!
Jul 22, 2021 · Now, 14 years after I began my crusade for equal pay, what makes me the happiest is that I’ve been able to inspire other women to do the same,” Williams wrote in the 2019 Glamour contribution...
- Micha Green
Mar 22, 2021 · The road was long and meandering, and it took 39 years of women fighting for equal prize money; more than two years campaigning with the WTA and an opinion piece in The Times to get there. But now we have equal pay in tennis at the majors and combined events — true equality.
Mar 22, 2021 · The road was long and meandering, and it took 39 years of women fighting for equal prize money; more than two years campaigning with the WTA and an opinion piece in The Times to get there. But now we have equal pay in tennis at the majors and combined events—true equality.
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Jul 3, 2023 · It came after Williams juggled winning the title on multiple occasions with lobbying the All England Club to change its policy on equal prize money.
