Novak Djokovic and the remainder of the world’s premier tennis gamers will compete for greater than $100 million in prize cash over the Australian summer time.
The historic excessive mark comes from a document $76.5 million Australian Open purse and the addition of the profitable new United Cup combined groups occasion to start out the season.
The males’s and ladies’s singles champions at Melbourne Park will obtain $2.975 million every after officers on Thursday introduced an total enhance of three.4 per cent on final summer time’s Open riches.
There are prize cash will increase in each Open spherical, together with qualifying, the place a first-round participant will earn $26,000.
First-round important draw singles gamers are set to take house $106,250 and people reaching the second spherical will pocket $158,850.
Australian Open event director Craig Tiley mentioned the pay rises are a part of an ongoing focus to spend money on the worldwide participant pool.
“At the Australian Open we’ve upped prize money for every round from qualifying through to the finals, with the major increases in the early rounds, where these substantial rewards help players invest in their own careers and in many cases, set themselves up for success throughout the year,” Tiley mentioned.
Prize cash is equal for gamers within the girls’s and males’s attracts.
Nine-time Open winner Djokvovic was blocked from defending his crown final summer time when he was deported over his refusal to be vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19.
The Serbian famous person will make a extremely anticipated return to Melbourne Park subsequent month, with query marks hanging over what kind of reception he’ll obtain from native followers.
Djokovic landed in Australia this week and has been listed to play on the Adelaide International, which begins on January 1.
Defending males’s champion Rafael Nadal is a part of the Spain group competing on the United Cup, the place girls’s world No.1 Iga Swiatek is representing Poland.
The United Cup – an ATP-WTA occasion in partnership with Tennis Australia – carries $US15 million ($A22m) in prize cash and as much as 500 rankings factors.
Australian Open 2023 prize cash quick info:
* First-round qualifiers: $26,000, up 3.0 per cent
* First-round doubles groups: $30,975, up 3.1 per cent
* First-round main-draw singles: $106,250, up 3.2 per cent
* Second-round singles: $158,850, up 3.1 per cent
* Singles semi-finalists: $925,00, up 3.4 per cent
* Singles champions: $2.975 million
* Total Open prize purse: $76.5 million, up 3.4 per cent
