{"id":1182984,"date":"2022-08-18T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/2022-us-open-player-compensation-reaches-60-million-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T16:14:06","slug":"2022-us-open-player-compensation-reaches-60-million-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/2022-us-open-player-compensation-reaches-60-million-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 US Open Player Compensation Reaches $60 Million for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2022 US OPEN PLAYER COMPENSATION\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>REACHES $60 MILLION FOR FIRST TIME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Qualifying Tournament Prize Money Eclipses $6.25 Million Mark<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All Rounds, in All Events, See Increase in Prize Money,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Including an Increase to $80,000 for First Round Main Draw Singles Competitors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FLUSHING, N.Y. \u2013 <span class=\"zm_inLnk\" data-value=\"2022-08-18 12:00:00\">August 18, 2022<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 The USTA <span class=\"zm_inLnk\" data-value=\"2022-08-18 12:00:00\">today<\/span> announced that the 2022 US Open will award more than $60 million in total player compensation for the first time. This amount tops the $57.5 million number of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The player compensation has been allocated after input from the WTA and ATP Player Councils, with a goal of increasing prize money in the earlier rounds of the main draw, as well as the US Open Qualifying Tournament Prize money. As a result, main draw payouts are now set at $80,000 for the first round and $121,000 for the second round, an 85% and 57% increase since 2016, respectively.\u00a0 Total prize money for the US Open Qualifying Tournament has now reached $6.26 million, an increase of 223% from $1.94 million in 2016. Final round prize money for the US Open Qualifying Tournament will be $44,000.<\/p>\n<p>Prize Money Breakdown:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 US OPEN PLAYER COMPENSATION\u00a0 REACHES $60 MILLION FOR FIRST TIME Qualifying Tournament Prize Money Eclipses $6.25 Million Mark All Rounds, in All Events, See Increase in Prize Money,\u00a0Including an Increase to $80,000 for First Round Main Draw Singles Competitors FLUSHING, N.Y. \u2013 August 18, 2022 \u2013 The USTA today announced that the 2022 US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1182987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}