FLUSHING, N.Y., August 8, 2023 – The USTA introduced that the 2023 US Open will award $65 million in whole participant compensation for the primary time. This quantity tops the $60 million variety of 2022, a rise of greater than 8%. Participant compensation takes on even larger significance this 12 months, with 2023 marking the fiftieth Anniversary of Equal Prize Cash on the US Open. Fifty years in the past, in 1973, the US Open turned the primary sporting occasion in historical past to supply equal prize cash to each women and men opponents, with every competing for whole purses of $100,000, together with a $25,000 payout to each the lads’s and girls’s singles champion.
Guaranteeing important payouts for gamers in all rounds was a precedence within the creation of the prize cash construction. Gamers eradicated from Major Draw Singles within the Spherical of 128 will obtain $81,500 – this represents a 44% enhance since 2019 ($58,000). On the similar time, Major Draw Singles Champions will obtain $3 million in prize cash, up from $2.6 million in 2022, a 15% enhance. As well as, US Open Qualifying gamers will likely be awarded $22,000 for first spherical, $34,500 for second spherical, and $45,000 for closing spherical, representing will increase of 100%, 92% and 41% since 2019, respectively.
As well as, an effort was made to offer larger help to all opponents from all occasions, no matter ending place, with the implementation of additional participant expense help. The 2023 US Open will see a big enhance in participant per diem for all opponents, with the introduction of journey vouchers of $1,000 for the primary time, in addition to an extra resort room for all gamers (or a doubling of participant resort allotment from $300 to $600 per day if the participant chooses to lodge at one other lodging). As well as, gamers will see a rise in meal allowance in addition to racquet stringing for all gamers. This contains each Major Draw and Qualifying opponents in Males’s and Girls’s Singles and Doubles occasions; Combined Doubles gamers; and Males’s, Girls’s and Quad Division Wheelchair opponents.
