Aryna Sabalenka poised for significant prize money milestone

Aryna Sabalenka is about to interrupt her personal prize money document for a single season over the following few weeks, however she is a great distance behind all-time money winner Serena Williams.

Sabalenka added the US Open to the Australian Open title she received at first yr, along with her prize money for 2024 to date a surprising $7,984,145.

The Belarusian star seems to be sure to interrupt her personal season-best document for prize money that was set final yr as she claimed $8,202,653. That beat her earlier finest document of $7,984,145.

Despite her beautiful earnings, Sabalenka spoke out in regards to the disparity in prize money in males’s and ladies’s occasions earlier this yr, after her prize money cheque for successful the WTA 1000 occasion in Cincinnati was considerably lower than males’s winner Jannik Sinner.

“From the TV point of view, from the ticket selling, from every point of view, it’s unfair,” Sabalenka mentioned. “Of course, guys are all the time going to be bodily stronger than ladies nevertheless it doesn’t imply we’re not working as laborious as they do.

“Women deserve to be paid an equal amount of money that men do.”

Grand Slam occasions pay equal prize money to women and men gamers, however common tour occasions have their very own broadcast offers, with the funds for the lads’s matches considerably greater than the ladies’s.

This impressed Swiatek to recommend the WTA Tour must discover a solution to bridge the hole.

“For sure, I’d like to see the WTA expanding business-wise, getting more popular, cutting the difference between WTA and ATP in terms of prize money and attracting fans,” mentioned Swiatek.

“Our tennis brings the identical feelings as males’s tennis. There’s one thing you will discover in ladies’s tennis that you just’re not going to seek out on the ATP.

“Right now, after a couple of years of hearing we’re not consistent, we’re actually consistent. There are top players who are playing great in most of the tournaments.”

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Sabalenka’s profession prize money complete is now as much as $32,106,991, which places her in tenth place on the all-time record.

That record is topped by the good Serena Williams, who claimed a surprising $94,816,730 throughout her record-breaking profession, along with her epic 2013 season seeing the American nice win $12,385,572, which is an all-time document within the ladies’s sport.

Current world No 1 Iga Swiatenk is one place forward of Sabalenka within the all-time record and each may have an opportunity to interrupt by the $50,000,000 prize money barrier in the event that they proceed to win at their present fee over the following couple of years.

That would transfer the highest two within the ladies’s sport into the elite record of prize money winners, as solely Serena Williams has received greater than $50,000,000 in prize money.

The duo can be eyeing up the large prize money pot on supply at this yr’s WTA Finals, with the transfer to stage the occasion in Saudi Arabia boosting funds.

The settlement with the Saudi Tennis Federation will supply document prize money of $15.25 million on the WTA Finals in 2024 with additional will increase in 2025 and 2026.

The partnership may also help broader funding sooner or later improvement and progress of ladies’s tennis, together with the WTA’s plans to develop the worldwide fanbase for ladies’s tennis by elevated funding in advertising and marketing, digital and fan engagement.

Here are the eight gamers forward of Swiatek and Sabalenka within the all-time prize money record, with most named within the record more likely to be overtaken by the shape gamers in ladies’s tennis, who might nonetheless be successful main title for a few years to return.