Prize cash on the US Open will improve almost $85 million in any respect competitions this yr. This has $5 million every for men and women’s singles champions.
The American Tennis Affiliation has introduced Wednesday funds for the final Grand Slam match of the yr, beginning with a brand new Combined Doubles occasion and a prime verify of $1 million on August 19-20. The singles competitors will start on Sunday for the primary time on August twenty fourth, with these brackets increasing from 14 days to fifteen days.
The Flushing Meadows improve – The full payout final yr was $75 million, however as the game’s main gamers are discussing every of the 4 main tournaments, they’re incomes a better proportion of income on the US Open, Wimbledon, the French Open and the Australia Open.
Novak Jjokovic, Coco Gauff, and 2024 US Open Champions Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner had been among the many 20 gamers who signed a letter despatched to the pinnacle of 4 Grand Slam occasions in March. Since then, some gamers have been speaking with Main.
The earlier highs of the US Open Singles Championship had been $3.85 million in 2019 earlier than it fell throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
This yr’s $5 million verify represents a 39% improve from final yr’s $3.6 million. The identical proportion improve was utilized to single ranger-ups, which every earned $2.5 million. Semi-finals earned $1.26 million, up 26%.
At Wimbledon, which ended final month, the prize cash rose by about 7% in trade charges to round $73 million when all England golf equipment introduced funds for gamers. The only champions had been every paid about $4 million.
In New York, the profitable crew for men and women’s doubles will obtain $1 million. That is the brand new excessive for these occasions on the US Open, with qualifying whole prizes as much as $8 million, up 10%.
The $85 million US Open Prize for 2025 consists of single, double, qualifying and wheelchair occasions.
Wednesday’s information got here after USTA stated in Might that its foremost enviornment, Arthur Ashe Stadium, will likely be overhauled as a part of a $800 million venture, touted because the “largest single funding” within the US’s open historical past.
