The Association of Professional Tennis Players (ATP) has announced a record financial prize pool for the 2022 ATP Finals. The organizer of the professional circuit put $14,750,000 on the table to be distributed among the eight singles players and the eight doubles pairs, In addition to substitutes.
An increase of 103% compared to 2021, 64% take the 2019 edition as a reference, the last one before the coronavirus pandemic shook the world.
And the jackpot went to the individual champion, Serbian Novak Djokovic, who also won all five games played. Undefeated, he got the most millionaire heels in the history of tennis: 4,740,300 dollars, more than four and a half million euros.
Djokovic is the tennis player who has received the most money in the ATP. Before Turin he earned 159,951,008 dollars, 5,194,282 this season, a figure he almost doubled in a week’s work.
For five games, three sets and a week, more money than winning a Grand Slam, seven games to five sets in two weeks. Djokovic took home 2 million lira, 2.2 euros, from Wimbledon.
The most ‘generous’ Grand Slam, the US Open, gave Carlos Alcaraz a check of 2,600,000 dollars, two ‘kilos’ less than Djokovic in Turin. Rafael Nadal won 2,200,000 euros at Roland Garros. Less than 2 ‘kilo’ at the Australian Open (2,875,000 Australian dollars).
Nadal, who won two games and lost one, pocketed 703,300 euros in Turin. As fixed for the completion of the group stage there is 320,000 dollars for each. The victory was awarded a bonus of 383,300 more for each. Win the semifinals, 1,070,000, with an extra 2,200,400 for the champion.
Finalist Casper Ruud is $2,156,600 richer. The reserve, Holger Rune, 150,000.
In doubles, 130,000 for the participant, 93,300 for each victory in the group stage, 170,000 for the semifinal and 350,400 more for the final. The cap, $930,300.
8 ‘master’ winners
Novak Djokovic (Srb) $4,740,300
Casper Ruud (Nor) 2,156,600
Taylor Fritz (USA) 1,086,600
Andrey Rublev (Russian) 1,086,600
Rafa Nadal (Span) 703,300
Felix Auger-Aliassime (Can) 703,300
Stefanos Tsitsipas (Gree) 703,300
Daniil Medvedev (Russian) 320,000
Holger Rune (Also) 150,000
Hubert Hurkacz (Pol) 150,000
Source: La Verdad
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