The US Open is the richest event with almost 60 million euros up for grabs: 80 thousand euros to those eliminated in the first round. In women’s tournaments we only laugh at the Grand Slams, from 1000 and down half of the men’s are collected
In tennis there is not only the race for world No. 1 or for records, all things currently the prerogative of Novak Djokovic, but for some years there has also been another competition, that between the major tournaments, first of all the slams, to whoever offers the richest jackpot. A race that in hindsight wouldn’t even make much sense, given that, especially for the four majors, the prestige is so great that they certainly don’t need to offer money to make themselves attractive. But so be it.