US Open singles champions to get lowest payout since 2012, prize cash for qualifiers and first 3 rounds go up
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) introduced a 35 per cent lower in prize cash for the 2 singles champions at this 12 months’s US Open in comparison with 2019, the final time the Grand Slam was held with spectators. However, prize cash for qualifying and the primary three rounds of the principle draw will rise as a part of an total improve.
The US Open was held behind closed doorways final 12 months as a result of Covid-19 pandemic. The USTA introduced Monday that it is going to be boosting complete participant compensation to a file USD 57.5 million, barely greater than the USD 57.2 million in 2019. The determine was USD 53.4 million in 2020.The title winners in singles every will probably be paid USD 2.5 million, down from USD 3 million final 12 months and USD 3.85 million two years in the past. It is the bottom quantity for the highest prize at Flushing Meadows since 2012, when the singles champs every obtained USD 1.9 million.This 12 months’s singles runners-up will probably be paid USD 1.25 million, a lower from USD 1.5 million in 2020 and USD 1.9 million in 2019 – and the bottom since USD 950,000 in 2012.In 2020, US Open qualifying was referred to as off amid the pandemic. That a part of this 12 months’s occasion begins Tuesday and will probably be held behind closed doorways, not like for the principle event, no spectators will probably be permitted. An award of practically USD 6 million has been introduced in all, a leap from about USD 3.5 million in 2019.Other examples of will increase in singles: First-round prize cash goes to USD 75,000, a bump of 23 per cent from USD 61,000 in 2020 and of 29 per cent from USD 58,000 in 2019; second-round payouts go to USD 115,000 from USD 100,000 in 2020 and 2019; and third-round payouts go to USD 180,000 from USD 163,000 in 2020 and 2019.Total prize cash goes up for every competitors, the USTA mentioned: singles, doubles, blended doubles and wheelchair tennis.”We determined our round-by-round prize money allocations by engaging in an open dialogue with the players and the management of both tours,” event director Stacey Allaster mentioned in a press release issued by the USTA. “We applaud their collective leadership in directing the 2021 US Open prize money to benefit the maximum number of players.”The singles attract New York is Thursday and major draw motion begins August 30.Novak Djokovic will probably be bidding to finish the primary calendar-year Grand Slam by a person since Rod Laver in 1969 and eyeing a males’s-record twenty first main singles championship. Naomi Osaka is the defending girls’s champion as she seeks a fifth Grand Slam title and a 3rd at Flushing Meadows.
