With every passing week, it seems, Iga Swiatek makes history and continues her ascension up the Hologic WTA Tour record books.<\/p>\n
Her latest achievement? Surpassing Venus Williams for second all-time in career prize money.<\/p>\n
On the heels of a rather robust Asian swing schedule — she won the title in Seoul, the 25th of her career, and then played Beijing and Wuhan — the six-time Grand Slam champion is now up to $42,945,490, slightly above Williams’ $42,867,364.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With three titles, including her first-ever Wimbledon trophy, and 61 wins (the most on tour this season), the 24-year-old has earned $9,417,532 this year alone. That’s second to only World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who has made $12,313,519 in the top spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sabalenka is No. 4 on the all-time list ($42,480,621), and trails Swiatek by just $464,869.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The all-time leader in prize money is 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams, who racked up an astonishing $94,816,730 during her illustrious 27-year career (made all the more incredible by the fact that prize money was substantially less for much of her career).<\/p>\n
Rounding out the Top 10 — after Serena, Venus, Swiatek and Sabalenka — is Simona Halep (just over $40 million), Victoria Azarenka ($38.8 million), recently-inducted International Tennis Hall of Famer Maria Sharapova ($38.7 million), recently-retired Petra Kvitova ($37.6 million), Caroline Wozniacki ($36.4 million) and Angelique Kerber ($32.5 million).<\/p>\n
Other active players in the all-time Top 20 include Coco Gauff (11th, with $29 million), Elina Svitolina (13th, with $26.6 million), Karolina Pliskova (14th, with $26.1 million) and Naomi Osaka (18th, with $24.5 million).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Swiatek and Sabalenka will have an opportunity to win another major title — and increase their prize money total — at next month’s WTA Finals in Riyadh, where $15.5 million will be on the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gauff has also qualified for the year-end event, and the trio will be joined by Australian Open champion Madison Keys, US Open finalist Amanda Anisimova and Jessica Pegula. The final two spots in the eight-player tournament are still up for grabs in the final weeks of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With every passing week, it seems, Iga Swiatek makes history and continues her ascension up the Hologic WTA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-200631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}