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Record Prize Money at 2025 US Open – $90 Million Purse Headlines Historic Payouts

Explore the record-breaking $90M prize pool at the 2025 US Open.

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The 2025 US Open is set to break financial records once again, with the USTA announcing a historic $90 million in total player compensation, a 20% increase from last year’s $75 million. Kicking off on August 24 in New York, the tournament now offers the largest prize pool in tennis history. Singles champions will take home $5 million each, while first-round qualifiers are guaranteed $110,000. As the prize money surges, so do the conversations around revenue sharing and player equity across the professional tennis landscape.

This year’s U.S. Open will have the largest total prize money payout for any tennis event in history.

$90 million.

Both the men’s & women’s singles champions will bring home $5 million, which will be the largest prize in tennis.

Men’s & Women’s singles main draw prize… pic.twitter.com/I3n5TE2pkj
— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) August 6, 2025

Singles Champs to Earn $5 Million Each, Mixed Doubles Sees 400% Boost

This massive purse outpaces all other Grand Slams by a wide margin. Wimbledon distributed around $70 million this year, while Roland Garros paid $65.5 million and the Australian Open approximately $63 million, as per USA Today.

For the 2025 US Open, the champions of the men’s and women’s singles titles will each receive $5 million, a staggering 39% jump from the $3.6 million earned by Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka in 2024. Even the runners-up will take home $2.5 million, up 26% year-over-year. Deeper runs are also being rewarded more handsomely: round of 16 players will earn $400,000, quarterfinalists $660,000, and semifinalists $1.26 million, all up over 20% from last year.

US Open prize money.

Singles winners will earn 5M.

Doubles and mixed doubles (!) winners receive the same: 1M pic.twitter.com/L6qruEhdXz
— José Morgado (@josemorgado) August 6, 2025

But perhaps the most surprising shift is in mixed doubles, long a crowd-pleasing afterthought. In a bold revamp, the USTA is moving the mixed event to Fan Week and shortening the draw to 16 teams, featuring 8 of the top 10 men and 6 of the top 10 women already confirmed. And the prize money is $1 million for first prize, up 400% from last year’s $200,000. Runners-up will earn $400,000.

Behind the booming figures, however, player concerns about revenue sharing continue to simmer. Novak Djokovic, speaking earlier this year, pointed to the imbalance compared to American sports, “I’m just going to state a fact, the pie split between the governing bodies in major sports, all major American sports like NFL, NBA, baseball, NHL, is 50 percent. Maybe more, maybe less, but around 50 percent. Ours is way lower than that.”

BREAKING: A tennis players' union co-founded by Novak Djokovic has started legal action against the sport's governing bodies 🚨 pic.twitter.com/Zxhyo0GmfG
— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) March 18, 2025

According to reports, tennis players often receive only a fraction of Grand Slam revenue, somewhere in the low teens percentage-wise. Still, for many lower-ranked players, just making the US Open main draw remains a career-changing moment. A first-round loss guarantees $110,000, a sum that can eclipse an entire year’s earnings on tour for them.

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