{"id":495126,"date":"2025-08-07T02:22:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495126"},"modified":"2025-08-07T02:22:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:22:42","slug":"2025-us-open-to-award-record-5-million-to-singles-champions","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/2025-us-open-to-award-record-5-million-to-singles-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 US Open to award record $5 million to singles champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 US Open is set to break records, offering the largest prize pool in tennis history with $90 million and a historic $5 million payout for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles champions.<\/p>\n<p>Tournament organizers announced the figures ahead of this year\u2019s event, scheduled to take place at Flushing Meadows from August 24 to September 7. The new champion\u2019s prize marks a 39% increase from 2024, when singles winners earned $3.6 million each.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">US Open prize money.<\/p>\n<p>Singles winners will earn 5M.<\/p>\n<p>Doubles and mixed doubles (!) winners receive the same: 1M <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L6qruEhdXz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/L6qruEhdXz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jos\u00e9 Morgado (@josemorgado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josemorgado\/status\/1953123713714373001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The total prize pool also sees a substantial 20% jump from last year\u2019s $75 million. For comparison, Wimbledon 2025 awarded \u00a353.5 million in total, with \u00a33 million going to each singles champion.<\/p>\n<p>Players will benefit across all rounds, with those exiting in the first round earning $110,000\u2014a 10% rise from 2024. The US Open emphasized its \u201cdeliberate and concerted effort\u201d to raise earnings across all levels of the tournament, with double-digit percentage increases in every round.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the top 20 male and female players issued a collective call to the Grand Slam tournaments, demanding a larger share of the revenue generated. The US Open appears to be the first to respond.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2025 US Open prize money sets record for largest purse in tennis history.<\/p>\n<p>More info \u27a1\ufe0f: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BINfnymUOs\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/BINfnymUOs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/85xr0MopzW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/85xr0MopzW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1953114259707113684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Doubles players will also see a significant boost in their earnings in the US. The men\u2019s and women\u2019s doubles competitions will now feature a combined prize pool of $4.78 million, up 23% from last year. For the first time in the tournament\u2019s history, winners of the men\u2019s, women\u2019s, and mixed doubles titles will each receive $1 million per team.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond prize money, the US Open is allocating $5 million to assist main-draw players with travel and expenses. Meanwhile, prize money for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s qualifying tournaments will increase by 10%, reaching $8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 US Open is set to break records, offering the largest prize pool in tennis history with $90 million and a historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495127,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[4051],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[1891,26711,26710],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The last Grand Slam of the season will distribute record-breaking $90 million prize pool","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495128,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495126\/revisions\/495128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495126"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495126"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}