The 2022 edition of the tournament marks a new record in terms of prizes. The participating tennis players, in total, will share 75 million dollars.
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January 30, 2022 – 12:52 p.m.
The Australian Open 2022, after overcoming the most direct economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis, will distribute 75 million dollars (67.2 million euros); 3.5 more than in its previous edition, when, despite everything, it has already set a new record in the competition aussie. Percentage-wise, it translates to an increase of 4.5%. From it, all the participants of the final phase will benefit, including the champion, Rafael Nadal, which will pocket a total of 2,875,000 dollars (2.58 million euros). Daniil Medvédev, for his part, after losing in the final, will earn $1,575,000 (1.4 million euros). Last year, on the other hand, the amounts were 2.75 million dollars and 1.23, respectively. A remarkable change.
The figures, moreover, are repeated in the female box. Therefore, Ashleigh Barty, who yesterday ended 44 years without a local winner in the competition, will receive the same 2.875 million. The American Danielle Collins, who was knocked out in the final after losing in two sets (6-3, 7-6), likewise, will also have 1,575.
Paula Badosa and Pablo Carreño, the two Spaniards who resisted the most in the contest beyond Nadal, $328,000 (€294,225) will enter. In both cases, to reach the round of eighths. The Catalan succumbed to one of the surprises of the tournament, Madison Keys, and Carreño, for his part, to the semifinalist who could not beat Nadal, a Matteo Berretini that will add $895,000. The Italian, yes, eliminated another Spaniard: Carlos Alcaraz. The young tennis player, with a participation that continues to add arguments for the future, will enter $221,000 for falling in the third round, like Pablo Andújar, Roberto Bautista and Nuria Párrizas. In the second round, where Sara Sorribes stayed, Garbiñe Muguruza, Alejandro Davidovich and Pedro Martínez the prize is 154,000 dollars.
The figures of the first Grand Slam of the year. The one that, traditionally, distributes more money and that, with the studs this season, it further establishes its status as major more lucrative. The 75 million dollars, then, set a new record in the tournament, which, in 2012, just a decade ago, stood at 26 million. (D)
