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or mmany years, the men did not play in shorts and shor )
Jong-sjeeved white shirts and ]ong white pants. The women wore hats and white dresses、not me
snorts and skKirts of today.
Tjpe eary players were all from England. The first foreign player (sto win at Wimbledon
was an American woman, May Sutton, in 1905.
here was another thing that was different about those early Wimbledon championships. AU
{the players Were * mateurs. No one received prize money from the club. > -
Wimbledon finally *allowed professional tennis players to compete in 1968. The first men's
singles champion received 2,000 pounds (worth a Hittle more than $40,000 today) while the first
women's champion received 750 pounds (about $15,200).
That's right. The men's champion got more rmoney than the won
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