NEW YORK —The U.S. Open introduced $90 million in prize cash might be on supply at this 12 months’s last main, marking the most important purse in tennis historical past, up 20% from 2024.
High gamers within the ATP and WTA referred to as for extra equitable distribution of income on the 4 Grand Slams this 12 months, as these on the high of the sport are in a position to profit from elevated prize cash whereas gamers on the decrease ranges usually wrestle.
The U.S. Open prize pool is up from $75 million in 2024, the earlier highest-ever purse. Males’s and girls’s singles winners will earn $5 million every, up from $3.6 million final 12 months.
The event can even see double-digit share will increase throughout all rounds in all occasions, after “years of a strategic concentrate on redistribution to the early rounds and qualifying event,” organisers mentioned.
Singles motion on the U.S. Open has been expanded to fifteen days, amid booming attendance, and can happen from August 24 to September 7.
A brand new format within the combined doubles is being launched this 12 months, with the occasion that includes many big-name singles gamers as it is going to be going down over two days within the week earlier than the principle competitors kicks off at Flushing Meadows.
U.S. Open attendance topped a million followers for the primary time in 2024.—Reuters