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U.S. Open To Set Tennis Record: $90M Total Prize, $5M Each To Singles Winners

Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 02:36PM

By Barry Janoff

UPDATED August 21, 2025:

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U.S. Open Men’s Singles Draw

August 6, 2025: The upcoming U.S. Open Grand Slam will be the first tennis event to reach $90 million in total player compensation, with the U.S. Tennis Assn. saying it would “once again be offering the largest purse in tennis history."

The $90 million tops the U.S. Opem total $75 million in 2024, the previous highest purse in tennis history, with an increase of 20%.

The men's and women's singles champions at the 2025 U.S. Open will each take home $5 million, up 39% from the $3.6 million awarded in 2024, with the USTA calling it the largest winning payout in the sport.

Total 2025 U.S. Open player compensation of $90 million includes hotel, per diem and U.S. Open Wheelchair Championships prize money, according to the USTA.

The U.S. Open runs Aug. 24-Sept. 7 in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing, N.Y. (ESPN, ABC, Tennis Channel).

Also this year, the reimagined Mixed Doubles event — with a $1 million top prize — was moved from the third week of the tournament, its traditional place on the calendar, to the first week during U.S. Open Fan Week “to enable top singles stars to compete together and to give this Grand Slam Championship center stage.”

By comparison, at the 2025 Australian Open, $2.2 million was awarded each for singles’ winners Jannik Sinner and Madison Keys out of a $59.9 million total; and during 2025 Roland-Garros, $2.9 million each was earned by Carlos Alcaraz and Coco Gauff from a total of $64 million

Wimbledon's prize money rose to a tournament record $73 million, with singles champions Sinner and Iga Swiatek each earning $4 million, according to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. The total amount was $6.8 million more than last year, an increase of 7%.

The USTA said the U.S. Open “has made a deliberate and concerted effort to ensure double-digit percentage increases from 2024 in all rounds of all events for all players, while at the same time significantly increasing the percentage of prize money for athletes playing deep into the singles draws.”

In addition to the increase for the main-draw singles champions, finalists ($2.5 million, an increase of 39%), semi-finalists ($1.26 million, an increase of 26%), quarter-finalists ($660,000, an increase of 25%) and Round of 16 competitors ($400,000, an increase of 23%) will all see substantial growth.

“This follows years of a strategic focus on redistribution to the early rounds and Qualifying Tournament to provide meaningful payouts to all players,” according to the USTA..

Men’s and women’s doubles purses are also significantly increased "in an effort to support the players competing in these championships," up 23% to $4.78 million from $3.89 million in 2024. For the first time. the winning teams from the men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles tournaments will earn $1 million in prize money.

The USTA said competitors would be given “a $1,000 travel stipend and two rooms in the player hotel or $600 per day if they opt to stay elsewhere. Players can also avail free racquet stringing of up to five racquets per pound. These accommodations total $5 million toward player support.”

Also new this year, the USTA has unveiled Game, Set, Matchmaker, a reality dating show set to the background of the U.S. Open Grand Slam

The show follows 24-year-old bachelorette Ilana Sedaka, a former figure skater turned Pilates coach as she seeks to connect with seven contestants “ranging from influencers and social media personalities to tennis superfans.”

Produced by the U.S. Open, it will be filmed during U.S. Open Fan Week (Aug. 18-23) at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Episodes will air on the US Open’s YouTube channel during the main draw, which starts Aug. 24.