Prize cash on the US Open will rise to just about $85 million throughout all competitions this yr, together with a file $5 million every to the ladies’s and males’s singles champions, and whole participant compensation is leaping 20% to $90 million, essentially the most in tennis historical past.
The U.S. Tennis Affiliation introduced the payouts Wednesday for the yr’s final Grand Slam event, which begins with the brand new combined doubles occasion and its $1 million high examine Aug. 19-20. Singles competitors begins on a Sunday for the primary time — Aug. 24 — as these brackets broaden from 14 days to fifteen.
The will increase at Flushing Meadows — the place final yr’s whole compensation was $75 million — come as the game’s main gamers have been in discussions with every of the 4 main tournaments in a bid to obtain the next share of revenues on the US Open, Wimbledon, French Open and Australian Open.
Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff and 2024 US Open champions Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner have been amongst 20 gamers who signed a letter despatched to the heads of the 4 Grand Slam occasions in March searching for extra prize cash and a larger say in what they referred to as “selections that straight affect us.” Since then, some gamers have held talks with the majors.
The earlier excessive quantity for a US Open singles championship was $3.85 million in 2019, earlier than lowering through the COVID-19 pandemic.
This yr’s $5 million examine represents a 39% hike from final yr’s $3.6 million. The identical share enhance was utilized to the singles runners-up, who get $2.5 million every. Semifinalists will earn $1.26 million, a 26% rise.
At Wimbledon, which ended final month, prize cash went up about 7% to about $73 million on the change fee when the All England Membership introduced its participant funds. The singles champions have been paid about $4 million apiece.
In New York, the profitable groups in ladies’s and males’s doubles will obtain $1 million, a brand new excessive for these occasions on the US Open, the place whole prizes for qualifying are going as much as $8 million, a ten% enhance.
The $85 million in 2025 US Open prize cash consists of singles, doubles, qualifying and wheelchair occasions.
Wednesday’s information comes after the USTA stated in Could that its fundamental area, Arthur Ashe Stadium, can be overhauled as a part of an $800 million undertaking touted because the “largest single funding” in US Open historical past.