Tennis<\/a> Association, with play set to begin next week.<\/p>\nPlayers will earn $140,000, the largest amount in tennis history, just for making it into the 128-player singles main draw. Quarter-finalists will earn $780,000, semi-finalists $1.45m and the runner-up $2.8m.<\/p>\n
The champions\u2019 check is up from the $5m that Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz won last year, when the total player compensation was $90m. The prizes for the singles champions at this year\u2019s other grand slams were $4.9m (Wimbledon), $3.3m (French Open) and $2.9m (Australian Open).<\/p>\n
The winning teams in men\u2019s, women\u2019s and mixed doubles will split $1m, with the runner-up team to earn $500,000. The wheelchair singles champions will earn $104,000.<\/p>\n
The USTA also announced it will establish a player support program, with an initial commitment of $2m to be split equally between men\u2019s and women\u2019s players, which will be used to provide benefits and complement existing pension funds.<\/p>\n
USTA CEO Craig Tiley called the financial commitment to players at all levels a \u201csignificant first step in a multiyear investment in athletes as the US Open continues to be the best economic opportunity for players and the most valuable platform in tennis for players, fans and partners\u201d.<\/p>\n
The program will be designed with guidance from the Grand Slam Player Council, whose creation was announced this week<\/a> in response to players seeking greater input and revenue from the four major tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Open singles champions will earn $5.5m, the highest winnings in grand slam tennis history. Overall compensation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744259","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=744259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}