Wimbledon to pay equal prize money

Friday, February 23, 2007

WIMBLEDON, England -- After years of holding out against equal prize money, Wimbledon bowed to public pressure Thursday and agreed to pay women players as much as the men at the world's most prestigious tennis tournament.

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