Record money for Sinner as Australian Open champion

The Australian Open, which is running Tennis Australia (TA), the country’s tennis federation, has announced that it will give more money than ever to tennis players participating in the first Grand Slam tournament of the season. He raised the distribution to 86,500,000 Australian dollars, about 52 ‘kilo’ of euros. An increase of 13% compared to the previous edition.

TA warns that a good part of this increase will go to the poorest in the circuit, those who do not usually pass the first rounds, now more subsidized.

Although there was also a peak reserved for the male individual champion, who earned exactly the same as the female winner, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka. A parity that occurs in four Grand Slam events.

The Italian Jannik Sinner, who defeated the Russian in the final Daniel Medvedev pocketed 100,000 euros more than his predecessor, and victim in the semifinals, the Serbian Novak Djokovic.

transalpine received a check for 3,150,000 Australian dollars, approximately two million euros. This is a record in the Grand Slam of Oceania and Asia, as the tournament describes itself, although it continues to be ‘good’ without making its champions rich.

Medvedev he took less than half, 1,725,000 Australian dollars. In return, a ‘kilo’ of euros.

For the 128 protagonists of the main draw, including those who competed and did not pass the qualifying phase, a total of 29,775,000 Australian dollars, more than 18 million euros, was distributed.

sinful, 22 years old, he accumulated 17,043,434 US dollars, the official ATP money for the money list, before winning his first Grand Slam. He will break the barrier of 18 million, tournament earnings alone, for competing.

Medvedev, Older than 27, playing in his sixth Grand Slam final, third in Melbourne, champion of the 2021 US Open, he will reach 39 million in his career.