{"id":2672,"date":"2013-08-01T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T10:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:06:00","slug":"us-open-prize-money-hits-record-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/us-open-prize-money-hits-record-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open Prize Money Hits Record Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Tennis Association has announced a significant increase to the prize money pool at the US Open, beginning August 26th.<\/p>\n<p>The overall pool jumps to a record $34.3 million, a significant increase on the 2012 figure of $25.5 million. The new five year deal will see prize money escalate year on year, culminating in a $50 million pool by 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The ladies and mens singles champions will both walk away $2.6 million richer &#8211; the biggest tournament winning prize in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Additional bonuses may also be awarded to the overall winner based on pre-US Open hardcourt events.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><strong>The full breakdown is as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Winners &#8211; $2.6 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Runners Up &#8211; $1.3 million<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Semi-Final Losers &#8211; $650,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Quarter Final Losers &#8211; $325,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">4th Round Losers &#8211; $165,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">3rd Round Losers &#8211; $93,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">2nd Round Losers &#8211; $53,000<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">1st Round Losers &#8211; $32,000<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=688\"><strong>Discuss with fellow tennis fans in our forum<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Tennis Association has announced a significant increase to the prize money pool at the US Open, beginning August 26th. The overall pool jumps to a record $34.3 million, a significant increase on the 2012 figure of $25.5 million. The new five year deal will see prize money escalate year on year, culminating in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[781,288,74,287,286,113],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","category-wta-tennis","tag-atp","tag-itf","tag-prize-money","tag-us-open","tag-usta","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}