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 grew to become the primary sporting occasion in historical past to supply equal prize cash to each women and men rivals, with every competing for whole purses of $100,000, together with a $25,000 payout to each the boys’s and ladies’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 Important Draw Singles within the Spherical of 128 will obtain $81,500 – this represents a 44% enhance since 2019 ($58,000). On the similar time, Important 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 probably be awarded $22,000 for first spherical, $34,500 for second spherical, and $45,000 for ultimate spherical, representing will increase of 100%, 92% and 41% since 2019, respectively.
As well as, an effort was made to supply larger help to all rivals from all occasions, no matter ending place, with the implementation of additional participant expense help. The 2023 US Open will see a major enhance in participant per diem for all rivals, 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 consists of each Important Draw and Qualifying rivals in Males’s and Girls’s Singles and Doubles occasions; Blended Doubles gamers; and Males’s, Girls’s and Quad Division Wheelchair rivals.
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