Coco Gauff, Novak Djokovic and different gamers on the U.S. Open might be taking part in for a document complete of $75 million in compensation on the yr’s final Grand Slam tennis event, an increase of about 15 per cent from a yr in the past.
The ladies’s and males’s singles champions will every obtain $3.6 million, the U.S. Tennis Affiliation introduced Wednesday.
The whole compensation, which incorporates cash to cowl gamers’ bills, rises $10 million from the $65 million in 2023 and was touted by the USTA as “the biggest purse in tennis historical past.”
The complete compensation places the U.S. Open forward of the game’s different three main championships in 2024. Primarily based on forex trade figures on the occasions of the occasions, Wimbledon supplied about $64 million in prizes, with the French Open and Australian Open each at about $58 million.
The champions’ checks soar 20 per cent from final yr’s $3 million, however the quantity stays under the pre-pandemic paycheck of $3.85 million that went to every winner in 2019.
Final yr at Flushing Meadows, Gauff gained her first Grand Slam title, and Djokovic earned his twenty fourth, extending his document for essentially the most by a person in tennis historical past.
Play in the principle attracts for singles begins on Aug. 26 on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle and concludes with the ladies’s last on Sept. 7 and the boys’s last on Sept. 8.
There are will increase in each spherical of the principle draw and in qualifying.
Gamers exiting the 128-person brackets within the first spherical of the principle occasion for girls’s and males’s singles get $100,000 every for the primary time, up from $81,500 in 2023 and from $58,000 in 2019.
In doubles, the champions will get $750,000 per crew; that quantity was $700,000 a yr in the past.
There gained’t be a wheelchair competitors at Flushing Meadows this yr as a result of the dates of the Paralympic Video games in Paris overlap with the U.S. Open. So the USTA is giving participant grants to the gamers who would have been within the U.S. Open discipline through direct entry.
