Jannik Sinner has opened a $2.4 million lead atop the 2026 on-court earnings list with $11.62 million through Wimbledon. The world No. 1 collected more than $1 million for each of the first five Masters 1000 titles this season, then added nearly $4.8 million for his first major championship of the year at the All England Club. The run lifts the 25-year-old Italian to fifth on the all-time career list at $69.6 million.
The Masters sweep and the Wimbledon bump
Sinner’s calendar-year haul is built on a run that no man has managed in the modern Masters format. Five 1000-level trophies before July delivered a base of roughly $6.8 million before the Wimbledon final. The champion’s check at SW19, just shy of $4.8 million, represents a 16 percent increase over the $4.12 million he took home for winning the same title in 2025. His 2025 Australian Open check was $2.15 million.
Zverev closes the gap with Paris title
Alexander Zverev sits second at $9.22 million after claiming Roland Garros for $3.27 million, a figure 10 percent higher than the previous year’s winner received. The German backed that up with a run to the Wimbledon final, pushing his career total to $68.6 million and sixth all-time. He has one major title to Sinner’s two but trails by less than a million in lifetime earnings.
Noskova tops women's list on Wimbledon windfall
Linda Noskova leads the women’s 2026 standings with $6.69 million, the bulk of it from winning Wimbledon. The 21-year-old Czech collected the second-largest major payout of the year, only the U.S. Open pays more, and brought her career earnings to $10.7 million. Twenty-three women earned at least $2 million last season, compared with 30 men.
US Open purse jumps twenty percent amid revenue complaints
The next inflection point arrives in New York. The 2026 U.S. Open purse stands at $108 million, up 20 percent from 2025 after top players pressed the Grand Slams for a larger revenue share. The 2025 singles winners each received $5 million. By contrast, the 2025 Winston-Salem Open, an ATP 250 event, paid its champion $109,640. The ATP Finals remain an outlier: Sinner earned $5.07 million for winning the eight-man event in 2025, nearly matching his combined Australian Open and Wimbledon checks from that year.
Pay disparity persists outside the majors
Equal prize money at the four majors has been standard since 2007, but joint events still tilt heavily toward the men’s draw. The 2025 Cincinnati Open distributed approximately $9.2 million to male players and $5.2 million to female players. The gap widens further at 250 and 500 level. In 2022 Iga Świątek nearly became the first woman since Kim Clijsters in 2003 to lead the sport in single-season earnings; Clijsters made $4.47 million that year against Roger Federer’s $4 million. The gap at the very top narrowed slightly in 2025.