Earlier this yr, the highest 20 males’s and girls’s gamers despatched a letter to the 4 Grand Slams asking for a better share of the income generated by the most important tournaments.
“The US Open has made a deliberate and concerted effort to make sure double-digit share will increase from 2024 in all rounds of all occasions for all gamers, whereas on the identical time considerably growing the proportion of prize cash for athletes taking part in deep into the singles attracts,” stated an announcement, exterior from the match organisers.
The pot of cash on supply in males’s and girls’s doubles on the US Open this yr shall be $4.78m (£3.6m) – a rise of 23% from 2024.
The match stated that “for the primary time ever” the winners of the lads’s doubles, girls’s doubles and blended doubles would get $1m (£749,000) in prize cash per staff.
The US Open can even be offering $5m (£3.7m) in assist for prices, together with journey and bills, for gamers in the primary draw, whereas the prize cash for the lads’s and girls’s qualifying tournaments will rise by 10% to $8m (£6m).
The 2025 US Open at Flushing Meadows runs from 24 August till 7 September.
