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How much money does Aryna Sabalenka get for winning the 2024 US Open?
Both winner Aryna Sabalenka and runner-up Jessica Pegula take home seven-figure payouts after the 2024 US Open final.
Aryna Sabalenka will receive a cheque for well over $3 million as the winner of today’s 2024 US Open women’s singles final, after beating Jessica Pegula 7-5, 7-5.
Competing in her first ever Grand Slam final, No. 6 seed Pegula was bidding to become the second straight American to win the US Open women’s singles tournament, after Coco Gauff was victorious at Flushing Meadows a year ago.
Having reached her second successive US Open final, however, the second-seeded Sabalenka banished the memories of her three-set defeat to Gauff 12 months ago.
Like Pegula, the Belarusian had never won the the US Open.
How much prize money does the 2024 US Open women’s champion get?
Sabalenka, as the winner of this year’s US Open’s women’s singles title, will receive $3.6 million in prize money, up 20% from the $3 million paid to Gauff in 2023. Pegula, the runner-up at Arthur Ashe Stadium, will earn $1.8 million, which also represents a one-fifth increase on the $1.5 million given to Sabalenka last year.
The same amounts will be paid to the champion and runner-up in tomorrow’s men’s singles final, which sees the US’s Taylor Fritz take on Italy’s Jannik Sinner.
Half a century of pay parity
The US Open was the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events to introduce equal prize money for its men’s and women’s participants, adopting the policy back in 1973.
The Australian Open followed suit in 1984, only to go back to paying men more in 1996. However, the tournament reversed this move five years later. The French Open began implementing equal pay in 2006, and Wimbledon introduced prize-money parity the following year.
2024 US Open singles prize money: breakdown in full
First round: $100,000
Second round: $140,000
Third round: $215,000
Fourth round: $325,000
Quarter-finals: $530,000
Semi-finals: $1 million
Finalist: $1.8 million
Champion: $3.6 million
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Sabalenka’s Grand Slam victories
As a result of her victory in New York, former world No. 1 Sabalenka has now won three Grand Slams in her career, all of which have come in the last 20 months. She started 2023 by winning the Australian Open in Melbourne, defeating Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina in three sets in the final. She then defended her title 12 months later, beating Chinese youngster Zheng Qinwen in straight sets in the showpiece game.