Whole prize cash and participant compensation at this yr’s US Open tennis event will attain a document $65 million, the US Tennis Affiliation stated on Tuesday, noting that the quantity is boosted by will increase within the quantity of bills lined.
Final yr’s whole payout was about $60 million.
Play in the primary attracts for singles begins on August 28 on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle and closes with the ladies’s last on September 10 and the boys’s last on September 11.
That is the fiftieth anniversary of the US Open turning into the game’s first occasion to pay ladies and men the identical, and each singles champions will get $3 million in 2023. That represents a soar of about 15% from final yr’s $2.6 million however stays under the pre-pandemic paycheck of $3.9 million that went to every winner in 2019.
Gamers shedding in earlier rounds do get a bump: These exiting within the first spherical of singles, for instance, will obtain $81,500 — up from $80,000 in 2022 and from $58,000 in 2019.
In doubles, the champions will get $700,000 per crew, up from $688,000 in 2022.
The USTA is offering extra expense cash for ladies and men in qualifying and main-draw singles, doubles and combined doubles and wheelchair occasions.
That features giving rivals $1,000 journey vouchers for the primary time; offering a second free room in an official event resort to everybody as an alternative of only one room or, if they like, a stipend of $600 per day (up from $300) for use for different housing; elevated meal allowances; and racket stringing.
Subtract that from the whole compensation being paid out, and the prize cash primarily based on outcomes on the US Open is about $60 million, essentially the most at any Grand Slam event this yr.
Based mostly on forex trade figures on the instances of the occasions, Wimbledon supplied about $56.5 million in prizes, the French Open about $54 million and the Australian Open about $53 million.