By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, August 6, 2025Photo credit score: Sarah Stier/Getty for USTA/US Open
The blue US Open exhausting courts will yield monetary discipline of inexperienced.
The USTA immediately introduced the 2025 US Open can pay the biggest prize cash in tennis historical past as the primary tennis match to supply $90 million in complete participant prize cash.
The $90 million in participant compensation is $15 million greater than the $75 million in complete prize cash paid on the 2024 US Open, representing a 20 p.c enhance.
Males’s and ladies’s US Open singles winners will every money a champion’s test of $5 million. That’s a 39 p.c elevate from the $3.6 million reigning males’s champion Jannik Sinner and 2024 ladies’s winner Aryna Sabalenka earned on the 2024 Flushing Meadows main.
Solely the Saudia Arabia Six Kings Slam exhibition, which paid Sinner a champion’s test of a tennis document $6 million final fall exceeds the 2025 US Open’s champion’s purse.
In a press launch asserting the 2025 prize cash, the USTA touted a “double-digit share enhance from 2024 in all rounds of all occasions for all gamers.”
The PTPA, led by Grand Slam king Novak Djokovic, has lengthy argued gamers deserve an even bigger share of the Grand Slam pie.
“Along with the rise for the champions within the Singles Primary Draw, finalists ($2.5 million, a rise of 39 p.c), semifinalists ($1.26 million, a rise of 26 p.c), quarterfinalists ($660,000, a rise of 25 p.c) and Spherical of 16 opponents ($400,000, a rise of 23 p.c) will all see substantial progress,” the USTA stated in its assertion. “This follows years of a strategic give attention to redistribution to the early rounds and Qualifying Match to offer significant payouts to all gamers.”
