Emma Raducanu trumps Katie Boulter and co by £137k despite missing Wimbledon

Emma Raducanu has earned more than all of her compatriots at Wimbledon without even playing. The 20-year-old is currently sidelined after undergoing three surgeries – leaving the likes of Katie Boulter to fly the British flag at SW19 in her absence. But even the tournament’s last Brit standing couldn’t match Raducanu’s sponsorship earnings over the two weeks of Wimbledon as she crashed out to Elena Rybakina.

Raducanu has been forced to miss her home Grand Slam tournament for the first time since making her Wimbledon debut as an 18-year-old wildcard in 2021. The world No 132 had been battling wrist injuries for almost a year before having surgery on both, plus an additional operation on her ankle.

It means she will be out of action for several months and hasn’t been able to play at the All England Club this year – though she still made an appearance on day one of The Championships. But Raducanu is still outclassing the rest of the Brits when it comes to her earnings during the tournament as no Brit made it to the second week.

According to the Daily Mail, the 2021 US Open champion makes £134,000 per week from her sponsorship deals as the face of brands like Dior, British Airways and Evian. It means that across the two weeks of the tournament, she will pocket £268k.

And it’s more than every Brit has earned at Wimbledon as none got beyond the third round. Boulter and Broady were the only players to make it that far and earned £131k in prize money for doing so. It means Raducanu will collect more than double that of the best-performing British players at SW19 – £137k more to be precise.

Meanwhile, four Brits took home £85k for reaching the second round – Andy Murray, Cameron Norrie, Jan Choinski and Jodie Burrage. Murray was close to reaching the third round as he led No 5 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas by two sets to one when their match was suspended for the curfew on Thursday night.

But when play resumed on Friday he lost the next two sets. Norrie was upset by the in-form American Christopher Eubanks while Choinski and Burrage came up against some of the seeded players in Hubert Hurkacz and Daria Kasatkina.