The US Open is to become the first tennis tournament ever to reward its players with a $US90 million ($A139 million) prizemoney windfall.<\/p>\n
The US Tennis Association is once again offering the largest purse in tennis history, as it announced on Wednesday the men’s and singles winners would receive record $US5 million ($A7.7 million) jackpots.<\/p>\n
The total players’ fund will top the $US75 million ($A116 million) in 2024, the previous highest purse in tennis history — an increase of 20 percent.<\/p>\n
The season’s final grand slam event will begin with a new mixed doubles event which will feature a $US1 million ($A1.5 million) winner’s cheque on August 19-20.<\/p>\n
Singles competition starts on a Sunday for the first time on August 24 in an event that will expand from 14 days to 15.<\/p>\n
The increases at Flushing Meadows come as the sport’s leading players have been in discussions with each of the four slams in a bid to receive a higher percentage of revenues at the US Open, Wimbledon, French Open and Australian Open.<\/p>\n
Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff and 2024 US Open champions Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner were among 20 players who signed a letter sent to the heads of the four events in March seeking more prize money and a greater say in what they called “decisions that directly impact us.”<\/p>\n
Since then, some players have held talks with the majors.<\/p>\n
This year’s singles winners’ cheques represent a 39 percent hike from last year’s $US3.6 million ($A5.5 million).<\/p>\n
At Wimbledon, which ended last month, prize money went up about seven percent to about $US73 million ($A113 million).<\/p>\n
With AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Open is to become the first tennis tournament ever to reward its players with a $US90…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,6571,1805,7820,21396,85,747,41118,37659,41119,41117],"class_list":{"0":"post-48275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian-open","11":"tag-french-open","12":"tag-players","13":"tag-prize-money","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-tennis-history","17":"tag-tennis-tournament","18":"tag-the-us-open","19":"tag-us-tennis-association"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}