Novak Djokovic not only rules the world of tennis on the courts but also surpasses his colleagues financially. The Serbian completed a masterful year, in which his three Grand Slam conquests, at the Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open, had their finishing touch, with another major title, the ATP Finals,
All of these achievements earned the Serbian the highest-paid tennis player of the year and ousted Carlos Alcaraz, who had had that privilege in a magical 2022.
Djokovic pocketed a total of 15.9 million dollars (14.5 million euros) in ATP prizes. Among the Balkan player’s achievements, in addition to the three Grand Slams and the ATP Finals, he won the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000 and Cincinnati the Adelaide 1 tournament, with which it opened the year 2023. A total of seven titles to which must be added, sportingly and economically speaking, other renowned results such as the Wimbledon final, in which it lost in an epic match against Carlos Alcaraz, or the Dubai semifinals, where he lost to Daniil Medvedev.
All this, in a year in which the ATP has distributed 217.9 million dollars (205 million euros), 20.7% more than in 2022. Of the total, the Serbian tennis player accounts for 7%.
Second place in both the points classification and financial prize goes to Carlos Alcaraz from Murcia. The Spanish tennis player once again recorded his season with the highest financial earnings, exceeding 10.7 million dollars (9.8 million euros), a figure slightly higher than last season, when he obtained 9.5 million euros. Two Masters 1000 tournaments, the prestigious Queens tournament or the Conde de Godó are some of the competitions that Alcaraz has won in 2023, without forgetting the Wimbledon Grand Slam. The British tournament, which is the Grand Slam with the largest prize pool for the winner, generated 3 million euros for the Murcian.
The last step of the podium is occupied by the Russian Daniil Medvedev, who after 2022 where he was banned from participating in tournaments such as Wimbledon, doubled his earnings from one year to the next. Medvedev accumulated 9.2 million dollars (8.4 million euros) this season, a figure that more than doubles what he earned in the previous one, when he only accumulated a prize of 4.1 million dollars (3, 8 million euros).
No other tennis player exceeds the nine million barrier. Below her is Jannik Sinner, fourth on the list, with 8.3 million dollars (7.6 million euros). The Italian tennis player played his best tennis to date and proof of this are the results where he has achieved his best season in terms of titles with 4 more than being a finalist in the Masters Cup or recently winning the Davis Cup with Italy.
Behind Sinner at a good distance, is the Russian Andrey Rublev, with 5.4 million dollars (4.9 million euros) that makes him end the year in fifth position in both the sporting and economic sections. The player deserved to be in the top 5 by having won two titles, including his first Masters 1000, and having played four other finals during the season.
Other tennis players who managed to be in the top-10 were Stefanos Tsitsipas, the Polish Hubert Hurkacz and the American Taylor Fritz. These three occupied seventh, ninth and tenth place respectively, between which the Greek got 4.8 million dollars (4.3 million euros) for 3.9 and 3.4 million dollars (3.5 million euros and 3.1 million euros) of the Polish and American tennis player.
Changes
Compared to last season, there are two changes on this list. The absence of Rafa Nadal due to his constant injuries during 2023 meant that he could not even add 400,000 dollars (360,000 euros) in prizes. The other tennis player who lost places in the points and economic classification is the Norwegian Casper Ruud, who after a good 2022, this year was on the verge of entering the best 10 economically with an income of 3.1 million dollars (2 .8 million euros).
The beneficiaries of these losses are Alexander Zverev and Holger Rune. The German returned after his serious ankle injury and took sixth place with a total of 4.9 million dollars (4.4 million euros) after having won two titles. For his part, the Danish tennis player has achieved 4.1 million dollars (3.7 million euros) in a season where he achieved eighth place in both classifications despite having achieved only one title this year, two less than in 2022. .
The battle between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic was on the Serbian’s side in 2023, both in sports and financially, but both have increased their collections as part of the progressive increase in the ATP’s economic prizes, which rose to a new sphere in the recently completed campaign. The increase of more than 20% in prizes (20.7%), up to 217.9 million distributed, has an explanation, based on meeting the demands of the tennis players, since other athletes are seeing markets such as Saudi Arabia or Qatar They enter with enormous economic force and can eclipse tennis, one of the most powerful sports in the media and historically in the entire world.
Source: Ambito
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