You will not have to attend lengthy for the primary main event of the 12 months, because the world’s greatest gamers converge on Melbourne for the Australian Open.
It is no secret that the most effective tennis gamers can earn extraordinary quantities of cash taking part in the game, and the 4 Grand Slam tournaments provide winners a critical probability of pocketing multi-million greenback salaries.
With affirmation that this 12 months’s event will characteristic the biggest prize pool ever provided, this is every little thing it’s essential to know in regards to the prize pool at Rod Laver Area in 2026.
How a lot is the Australian Open 2026 prize cash?
Breakdown by spherical, males’s singles, girls’s singles (Quantities are Australian {dollars}, trade charges as of January twelfth)
winner: $4.15 million (US$2.79 million, £2.07 million)
runner-up: AUD 2.15 million (USD 1.45 million, GBP 1.07 million)
Semi-finalists: AUD 1.25 million (USD 840,000, GBP 620,000)
Quarterfinalists: AUD 750,000 (USD 500,000, £373,000)
Spherical 4: $480,000 (US$320,000, £239,000)
Spherical 3: $327.75,000 (US$220,000, GBP£163,000)
Spherical 2: $225,000 (US$150,000, GBP£112,000)
First spherical: $150,000 (US$100,000, GBP£75,000)
What’s the whole prize cash?
Tennis Australia has introduced that this 12 months’s males’s and singles winners will take residence the largest prize of A$111.5 million ($74.9 million, £57.5 million). That is the primary time this quantity has reached 9 digits.
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How have winners’ prize cash modified over time?
In 1970, the prize cash was simply A$700 for girls and A$3,400 for males. The Australian Open restored prize cash parity in 2001, and within the fashionable period there may be extra prize cash on provide for opponents than ever earlier than.
The highest prize cash on provide in Melbourne in 2026 is the very best ever, however it can take a gentle climb to get there. The winner’s share within the 2026 version is nineteen% increased than final 12 months, and considerably extra by A$1.4 million than in 2021, when Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka received A$2.75 million every.
Contemplating the impression of COVID-19 on international tennis, it took 5 years for prize cash to recuperate to or above pre-pandemic ranges. The 2020 winner’s share might be A$4.12 million, which is A$300,000 decrease than in 2026.
Australian Open annual breakdown since 2001 (males’s singles, girls’s singles)
2001: A$835,000 — received by Andre Agassi and Jennifer Capriati
2002: A$1 million — earned by Thomas Johansson and Jennifer Capriati
2003: A$1 million — received by Andre Agassi and Serena Williams
2004: A$1.2 million — received by Roger Federer and Justine Henin
2005: A$1.2 million — earned by Marat Safin and Serena Williams
2006: A$1.28 million — received by Roger Federer and Amelie Mauresmo
2007: A$1.28 million — received by Roger Federer and Serena Williams
2008: A$1.4 million — earned by Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova
2009: A$2 million — earned by Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams
2010: A$2.2 million — received by Roger Federer and Serena Williams
2011: A$2.2 million — earned by Novak Djokovic and Kim Clijsters
2012: A$2.3 million — earned by Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka
2013: A$2.43 million — earned by Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka
2014: A$2.65 million — received by Stan Wawrinka and Li Na
2015: A$3.1 million — earned by Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams
2016: AUD 3.4 million
2017: A$3.7 million — received by Roger Federer and Serena Williams
2018: A$4 million — received by Roger Federer and Caroline Wozniacki
2019: A$4.1 million — earned by Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka
2020: A$4.12 million — earned by Novak Djokovic and Sofia Kenin
2021: A$2.75 million — awarded to Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka
2022: A$2.875 million — received by Rafael Nadal and Ashleigh Barty
2023: AUD 2,975,000.
2024: A$3.15 million — received by Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka
2025: A$3.5 million — received by Jannik Sinner and Madison Keys
How a lot do Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka earn?
2025 was a profitable season for tennis’ elite – Carlos Alcaraz topped the ATP prize cash record with $21.36 million. Carefully adopted by rival Jannik Sinner with $19.12 million, Aryna Sabalenka topped the annual WTA chart with $15.01 million.
Alcaraz and Sabalenka are already fifth and second on the lads’s and ladies’s all-time cash record, respectively.
