After winning the Australian Open and in Rotterdam, the Italian pocketed $2,540,000. Behind is the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, with $2,240,000. Women occupy three of the top five places in the 2024 prize money rankings
Jannik Sinner leads the ranking of the tennis players who have earned the most money so far in 2024 while the Argentine Sebastián Baez is ranked 18th.
The 22-year-old Italian had earned US$2,540,000 until March 6, after having won the Australian Open, the first major title in his career, which brought him earnings of US$2,100,000. He continued his great performance by winning in Rotterdam last February, earning another additional US$430,000.
The Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the other individual winner in Melbourne, takes second place behind Sinner with $2,240,000 in prizes so far this year after two months.
The current women’s world No. 2 received the same payout as Sinner for her victory in Australia, but because she lost in the first round of the Dubai Open in February, she was unable to significantly increase that total.
Sebastian Baez, who as a junior was number 1 in the world ranking in 2018, and has now risen to 20th place in the ATP world ranking, this year he won the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro and the ATP in Santiago de Chile. Which allowed him to pocket US$742,000, placing him in 18th place so far this year among the tennis players who have earned the most.
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Since the inception of the Indian Wells Open, women occupy three of the top five spots in the 2024 prize money rankings and four of the top 10. This can generally be attributed to the fact that Indian Wells is the first ATP Masters 1000 event. this year, while women have already contested two WTA 1000 events in Dubai and Qatar.
Masters events award the most prize money, with the exception of Grand Slams and Tour Finals. The tournament has an equal purse of approximately $9,000,000 for men and women.
Behind Sinner and Sabalenka, In third place is the German Alexander Zverev, with US$1,470,000. The top ten is completed by:4) the Chinese Qinwen Zheng, with US$1,440,000; 5) the Polish Iga Swiatek, with US$1,380,000; 6) the Russian Daniil Medvedev, with US$1,310,000; 7) the Australian Alex de Minaur, with US$1,126,000; 8) the Italian Jasmine Paolini, with US$958,000; 9) the Serbian Novak Diojovic, with US$956,000 and 10) the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, with US$942,000.
Source: Ambito
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