Aryna Sabalenka will receive a cheque for well over $3 million as the winner of today’s 2024 US Open women’s singles final.
Competing in her first ever Grand Slam final, No. 6 seed Pegula was bidding to become the second straight American to win the US Open women’s singles tournament, after Coco Gauff was victorious at Flushing Meadows a year ago.
Having reached her second successive US Open final, meanwhile, the second-seeded Sabalenka banished the memories of her three-set defeat to Gauff 12 months ago.
Sabalenka, as the winner of this year’s US Open’s women’s singles title, will receive $3.6 million in prize money, up 20% from the $3 million paid to Gauff in 2023.
Pegula, the runner-up at Arthur Ashe Stadium, will earn $1.8 million, which also represents a one-fifth increase on the $1.5 million given to Sabalenka last year.
The same amounts will be paid to the champion and runner-up in tomorrow’s men’s singles final, which sees the US’s Taylor Fritz take on Italy’s Jannik Sinner.
The US Open was the first of the four Grand Slam tennis events to introduce equal prize money for its men’s and women’s participants, adopting the policy back in 1973.
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