Prize Money Of all Grand Slams, Which is Highest Paying ?
Australian Open has increased their 2014 prize money to $33 US dollars which is not almost on par with Wimbledon and US Open. All the grand slams are in competition of their own as to become the highest paying grand slam which will attract players interest more as well as the crowd and US Open authorties has made a plan to increase the US Open grand slam total prize money to $50 Million in the next few years. Lets take a look at all the Grand Slams Prize money’s breakdown from 2013.
 AUSTRALIAN OPEN |
 WIMBLEDON |
 FRENCH OPEN |
 US OPEN |
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| Total | $33 Million | $42.3 Million | $34.5 Million | $38.3 Million |
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| SINGLES | AUSTRALIAN |
WIMBLEDON |
FRENCH OPEN |
US OPEN |
| Winner | $2,430,000 | $2,437,600 | $2,042,100 | $3,000,000 |
| Runner Up | $1,215,000 | $1,218,800 | $1,021,050 | $1,430,000 |
| Semifinalists | $500,000 | $609,400 | $510,525 | $715,000 |
| Quarterfinalists | $250,000 | $312,318 | $258,666 | $377,000 |
| 4th Round | $125,000 | $159,968 | $136,140 | $182,000 |
| 3rd Round | $71,000 | $95,981 | $81,680 | $103,000 |
| 2nd Round | $45,500 | $57,893 | $47,649 | $58,000 |
| 1st Round | $27,600 | $35,802 | $28,589 | $35,200 |
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Above all the prize money’s are converted from Australian Dollar, British Pounds and Euro to US dollars. Of course Wimbledon pays in british pounds, french open in euros and australian open in aus dollars.
In the last two years we have seen all grand slams who has increased their total prize money and it was after players revolt which was lead by Roger Federer, as players demanded more percentage of total earnings from the grand slams.
