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WIMBLEDON is BACK and while the tournament tends to be a stickler for tradition, there are a host of changes this year.

The iconic tennis tournament never fails to bring the drama as the best tennis players in the world battle it out on the grass courts of Wimbledon.

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Wimbledon is back with some new rules in place[/caption]

What are the Wimbledon 2025 rule changes?

Some big announcements have been made at SW19 ahead of this year – some that will massively affect the players, spectators and those involved in the tournament.

The decisions made by the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) to alter certain aspects of the Championship have received mixed reviews.

But while the drama behind the presenting line-up has already brought some attention, let’s take a look at each rule change individually, assessing their impact.

Prize pot changes

Winning a Grand Slam like Wimbledon can be life-changing.

For those who lift the trophy, their careers are changed forever, as they immediately become the ones to watch for the rest of the season.

What’s more, the prize money for taking home the title can set players up for life, alongside a plethora of brand deals and endorsements.

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Carlos Alcaraz dominated against Novak Djokovic for the second-time running in 2024[/caption]

Last year, two-time tournament champion Carlos Alcaraz and second-time Grand Slam winner Barbora Krejcikova both took home a whopping £2.7m.

However, the grass Grand Slam title winners – men’s and women’s – this year will receive £3m, which is a considerable £300,000 increase.

The overall prize pot is seven per cent bigger, rising from £50m to £53.5m.

Why has the prize pot increased?

Alongside the increase in winners’ earnings, the total prize pot has also risen.

This year the tournament-wide prize earnings stands at £53.5m, which is £3m more than in 2024.

This means an increase for finalists, semi-finalists and all the way down to the first-round losers.

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The 24-time Grand Slam Champion lost in the final in 2023 and 2024[/caption]

For those knocked out in the first round they will now receive £66,000, which is a rise of 10 per cent.

It comes after the formation of the Professional Tennis Players Association, co-founded by Novak Djokovic, who demanded significant improvement in prize money at the four Grand Slams.

The group was formed to ensure that there was a more equitable way to distribute revenue throughout the year, due to the costs involved with life on tour.

The AELTC chair Deborah Jevans said: “We have listened to the players. We have engaged with the players.

“But the focus on just the prize money at the four events, the Grand Slams, does not get to the heart of what the challenge is with tennis.

“The challenge with tennis is the fact that the players don’t have an offseason, which they want; they have increasing injuries that they’re speaking about.”

What time are the Wimbledon 2025 finals?

For regular Wimbledon watchers, the routine of turning on the telly at 2pm to watch the men’s and women’s finals on the last weekend runs like clockwork.

But fans will have to break this habit this year as organisers have pushed the start time of the finals to 4pm.

As a result, the women’s and men’s doubles, which were previously held after the singles finals, will now be held before at 1pm on the last weekend – whetting the appetite of tennis fans before the final showdowns.

The decision was made after TV viewing figure failed to match the numbers of the previous year, with Barbora Krecjikova’s victory over Jasmine Paolini drawing in almost half a million fewer spectators than in 2023.

Will there be line judges at Wimbledon 2025?

The most controversial alteration made to this year’s tournament is the removal of line judges.

Instead, the Championship will join the Australian and US Open in the use of electronic line calling on all courts.

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The line judges have been a regular fixture at the tournament for 147 years[/caption]

For fans, that means no more viral videos of balls being launched at the line judges and for the players, it means no risk of disqualification for launching it at them – à la Novak Djokovic in the 2020 US Open.

The All England Club said: “The decision to adopt Live ELC was made following the successful completion of extensive testing during last year’s Championships and builds on the existing ball tracking and line calling technology that has been in place for many years.”

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Some line judges will now become match assistants to continue at the tournament[/caption]

It is the end of a 147-year-old tradition, and means that the 300 line judges who have been cut are now out of work.

For 80 of the line judges, it is not the end of their time at the Championship, however, as they will be used as ‘match assistants’.

They will be there to escort players who need to leave the court, but also to pick up the slack when technology fails.

PADRAIC Joyce says he won’t be making any rash decisions about his Galway future.

Joyce collected his last All-Ireland as a player in 2001, when he blasted 10 points in a final win over Meath.

But his six-year spell as boss could now be over after defeat to the same county.

Dessie Farrell announced his departure from Dublin immediately after their defeat on Saturday and it was thought that Joyce might do the same.

But the Galway manager said: “We’ve just gone out of the Championship so I’m not going to make any rash decisions. We’ll sit and chat with the county board.

“There’s a lot of lads in that dressing-room with decisions to make about next year as well, as we have as a management team, so we will do that in due course.

“The county board have always been very supportive of me and the players so we will sit down and get things properly organised. Whatever will be will be.

“There will be no statements or no rushed announcements coming out in the next day or two anyway.”

And yet Joyce conceded that it looked good for the 2022 and 2024 All-Ireland runners-up when they led by three with 10 minutes left.

He agreed that they looked to be in a good position but conceded they were second best in many areas of the game overall.

Joyce said: “We made life very hard on ourselves. You have to give credit to Meath as well.

“They were up for the game. They won the breaking ball battle all day out in the middle of the pitch.

“They were very sharp inside as well. We didn’t really get enough to put them away.

“They hung in the game very well and congratulations to them. We just didn’t really finish the game out, very disappointing from our side, no doubt about it. But the lads will regroup and go again.”

Galway fans roared their disapproval at a number of big calls from ref Martin McNally.

Joyce was dubious about a number of them too, wondering just how Meath were able to run down the clock in the final moments.

He said: “Connor (Gleeson) had a ball thrown down to kick it in the last two seconds and he just blew it up.

“I don’t know, he kicked it short to himself. Just frustrated with a few decisions that went against us. That happens, we have to move on and take it.”

Joyce said the bottom line was that Galway ‘didn’t get to the energy levels of the game’.

He said: “I think we conceded 2-6 or 2-7 in turnovers. I thought it was a harsh free given against Dan O’Flaherty which resulted in Meath’s goal as well.

“Some days you get them, some days you don’t. Today, we didn’t.”

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