This year’s US Open champions should benefit from the greatest salary in tennis history.
The tournament organizers announced Wednesday that the champions of male and female singles would each win $ 5 million during the tournament this year, an increase of 39% of the $ 3.6 million awarded in 2024.
Overall, the tournament price scholarship will exceed $ 90 million – the largest in tennis history and an increase of 20% compared to last year, which amounted to $ 75 million.
There will also be significant increases in remuneration for those who go to the last stages of competition, the finalists by simple winning 2.5 million dollars (an increase of 26%), semi-finalists of $ 1.26 million (an increase of 26%) and quarter-finalists $ 660,000 (an increase of 25%).
For the first time at the tournament, winning teams in male, female and mixed doubles will receive $ 1 million in prices.
The increase in prices occurs after some of the best players in the world have sent a letter to the organizers of Australian Open, Open of France, Wimbledon and the US Open require a “substantial increase” of the money price.
“The United States Open has made a deliberate and concerted effort to guarantee two-digit percentage increases compared to 2024 in all cycles of all events for all players, while considerably increasing the price percentage for athletes playing deeply in single prints,” said a press release on the United States website.
The organizers also put aside $ 5 million to put players ‘expenses, including a $ 1,000 travel allowance for each player and two hotel rooms at the official players’ hotel (or $ 600 per day to stay in alternative accommodation).
The qualifications for the US Open this year begin on August 18, the main single prints in progress on August 24 and ending on September 7.
Balayage – and controversial – changes – have been brought to the mixed double competition this year, which will now be staged on August 19 and 20 and will include some of the biggest names in sport.
Among some of the pairs of the stars, there will be Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu, Jannik Sinner and Emma Navarro, Casper Ruud and Iga świątek and Aryna Sabalenka and Grigor Dimitrov.
The justification is that the best players will then be available to appear in the mixed doubles, attracting more fans and allowing the broadcasters to highlight the competition before the start of the singles game.
However, the defending champions Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori described the change in format “pseudo-exhibition” and “deep injustice” which “lack of respect (s) a whole category of players”.
Eight pairs of the 16 team field were selected according to their simple combined classification, while eight are joker entries.
The US Tennis Association told CNN Sports that the new format “would increase mixed doubles with a larger projector and offer a greater opportunity to inspire more people to play and develop sport”.
He also declared in a press release that “the best players in the world will have the opportunity to compete for this title and the several million dollars handbag without having to juggle with mixed doubles with their singles and their duplicate commitments.”
