History in the making at this years US Open

The USTA has announced that the 2025 US Open will once again offer the largest purse in tennis history, being the first tennis event to reach $90 million in total player compensation.

This amount tops the total $75 million in 2024, the previous highest purse in tennis history, an increase of 20 percent. Men’s and Women’s Singles Champions at the 2025 US Open will earn $5 million, up 39 percent from the $3.6 million in 2024, making it the largest winning payout in the sport.

The US Open has made a deliberate and concerted effort to ensure double-digit percentage increases from 2024 in all rounds of all events for all players, while at the same time significantly increasing the percentage of prize money for athletes playing late into the singles tournament.

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In addition to the increase for the champions in the Singles Main Draw, finalists ($2.5 million, an increase of 39 percent), semi-finalists ($1.26 million, an increase of 26 percent), quarter-finalists ($660,000, an increase of 25 percent) and Round of 16 competitors ($400,000, an increase of 23 percent) will all see substantial growth.

This follows years of a strategic focus on redistribution to the early rounds and Qualifying Tournament to provide meaningful payouts to all players.

Men’s and Women’s Doubles purses also are significantly increased in an effort to support the players competing in these championships, up 23 percent to $4.78 million from $3.89 million in 2024. For the first time ever, the winning teams from the Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles Championships will earn $1 million in prize money.

The Men’s and Women’s Qualifying tournaments’ prize money will increase to a record $8 million, up 10 percent for this year.

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In addition to prize money, as has been the case in recent years, the US Open has made an effort to help reduce out-of-pocket expenses for all competitors in all professional Main Draw and Qualifying events.

All players will receive a travel allowance of $1000, as well as two hotel rooms in the official player hotel or $600 per day if the players chooses to stay at another accommodation, resulting in $5 million in overall support. In addition, players will receive free racquet stringing of up to five racquets per round.

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