Coco Gauff, Novak Djokovic and different gamers on the US Open shall be taking part in for a file whole of $75 million in compensation on the yr’s final Grand Slam tennis event, an increase of about 15% from a yr in the past.
The ladies’s and males’s singles champions will every obtain $3.6 million, the US Tennis Affiliation introduced Wednesday.
The full 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 US Open forward of the game’s different three main championships in 2024. Based mostly on forex alternate figures on the occasions of the occasions, Wimbledon provided about $64 million in prizes, with the French Open and Australian Open each at about $58 million.
The champions’ checks leap 20% from final yr’s $3 million, however the quantity stays beneath 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 file for probably 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 remaining on Sept. 7 and the lads’s remaining 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 ladies’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 staff; that quantity was $700,000 a yr in the past.
There will not 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 US Open. The USTA is giving participant grants to the gamers who would have been within the US Open area by way of direct entry.
