Prize money for the singles champion was $69,200, and the doubles champions received $23,570.

For the 2010 Championships, the total prize money increased to £13,725,000, and the singles champions received £1,000,000 each.

She was also the first singles champion of the storied event in Cincinnati.

She became senior singles champion of Romania in 2012.

She'd been quite a player in her day, the 1955 Soviet singles champion.

This view was opposed by another group of players which included eight former national singles champions.

The inducements have improved too, with A$2.3million (£1.57million) on offer to each of the singles champions this year.

He won Wimbledon in 1985, at the age of 17, becoming the youngest men's singles champion.

The French Open gives equal prize money to only the men's and women's singles champions, a practice it began in 2006.

Walter becomes the first woman to repeat as women's singles champion.