By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Photo credit: Sarah Stier/Getty for USTA/US Open

The blue US Open hard courts will yield financial field of green.

The USTA today announced the 2025 US Open will pay the largest prize money in tennis history as the first tennis tournament to offer $90 million in total player prize money.

The $90 million in player compensation is $15 million more than the $75 million in total prize money paid at the 2024 US Open, representing a 20 percent increase.

Men’s and women’s US Open singles winners will each cash a champion’s check of $5 million. That’s a 39 percent raise from the $3.6 million reigning men’s champion Jannik Sinner and 2024 women’s winner Aryna Sabalenka earned at the 2024 Flushing Meadows major.

Only the Saudia Arabia Six Kings Slam exhibition, which paid Sinner a champion’s check of a tennis record $6 million last fall exceeds the 2025 US Open’s champion’s purse.

In a press release announcing the 2025 prize money, the USTA touted a “double-digit percentage increase from 2024 in all rounds of all events for all players.”

The PTPA, led by Grand Slam king Novak Djokovic, has long argued players deserve a bigger percentage of the Grand Slam pie.

“In addition to the increase for the champions in the Singles Main Draw, finalists ($2.5 million, an increase of 39 percent), semifinalists ($1.26 million, an increase of 26 percent), quarterfinalists ($660,000, an increase of 25 percent) and Round of 16 competitors ($400,000, an increase of 23 percent) will all see substantial growth,” the USTA said in its statement. “This follows years of a strategic focus on redistribution to the early rounds and Qualifying Tournament to provide meaningful payouts to all players.”