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Dive into the elite realm of tennis where financial rewards mirror athletic excellence. This comprehensive list of ATP all-time career prize money leaders not only showcases the staggering earnings of legends like Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer but also invites you to understand the economic landscape of professional tennis.

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They say we are in a golden era with the sport of tennis and although that was certainly the case a couple of years ago, there is a sense that we are now entering a new generation. Even though Novak Djokovic is still the king of the court, his closest foes are not the competition they once were.

With Roger Federer finally calling time on his playing time and Rafael Nadal having a frustrating battle with injuries, Britain’s Andy Murray also seems to be in the final phase of what has been a lucrative career to date.

A lucrative career can be summed up by tournament or Grand Slam wins but usually, it is summed up by earning ability. The best in the sport are certainly well compensated, but are the rich simply getting even richer?

The first way to try and answer this is by looking at the top 100 all-time earners in men’s ATP tennis:

Rank	Player	Career	Turned Pro	Retired
1	Novak Djokovic	$175,281,484	2003	Current
2	Rafael Nadal	$134,640,719	2001	Current
3	Roger Federer	$130,594,339	1998	2022
4	Andy Murray	$64,187,601	2005	Current
5	Pete Sampras	$43,280,489	1988	2002
6	Alexander Zverev	$36,565,128	2013	Current
7	Stan Wawrinka	$36,505,406	2002	Current
8	Daniil Medvedev	$34,433,626	2014	Current
9	David Ferrer	$31,483,911	2000	2019
10	Marin Cilic	$31,207,381	2005	Current
11	Andre Agassi	$31,152,975	1986	2006
12	Dominic Thiem	$29,983,300	2011	Current
13	Tomas Berdych	$29,491,328	2002	2019
14	Stefanos Tsitsipas	$27,325,433	2016	Current
15	Juan Martin del Potro	$25,896,046	2005	Current
16	Kei Nishikori	$25,102,112	2007	Current
17	Boris Becker	$25,080,956	1984	1999
18	Grigor Dimitrov	$24,148,180	2008	Current
19	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	$23,883,797	1992	2003
20	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	$22,458,018	2004	2022
21	John Isner	$22,430,808	2007	2023
22	Gael Monfils	$21,663,981	2004	Current
23	Carlos Alcaraz	$21,433,522	2018	Current
24	Ivan Lendl	$21,262,417	1978	1994
25	Lleyton Hewitt	$20,889,965	1998	2020
26	Richard Gasquet	$20,655,389	2002	Current
27	Andy Roddick	$20,640,030	2000	Current
28	Stefan Edberg	$20,613,441	1983	1996
29	Milos Raonic	$20,509,904	2008	Current
30	Goran Ivanisevic	$19,878,007	1988	2004
31	Andrey Rublev	$19,715,035	2014	Current
32	Michael Chang	$19,145,632	1988	2003
33	Feliciano Lopez	$18,706,677	1997	2023
34	Fernando Verdasco	$18,349,505	2001	Current
35	Fabio Fognini	$18,070,094	2004	Current
36	Kevin Anderson	$17,791,917	2007	Current
37	Roberto Bautista Agut	$17,564,402	2005	Current
38	David Goffin	$16,995,455	2009	Current
39	Mike Bryan	$16,767,452	1998	2020
40	Nikolay Davydenko	$16,186,480	1999	2014
41	Casper Ruud	$16,122,697	2015	Current
42	Gilles Simon	$16,045,734	2002	2022
43	Bob Bryan	$15,931,631	1998	2020
44	Pablo Carreno Busta	$15,249,901	2009	Current
45	Gustavo Kuerten	$14,807,000	1995	2008
46	Karen Khachanov	$14,733,627	2013	Current
47	Jonas Bjorkman	$14,610,671	1991	2013
48	Marat Safin	$14,373,291	1997	2009
49	Mikhail Youzhny	$14,264,450	1999	2018
50	Jim Courier	$14,034,132	1988	2005
51	Juan Carlos Ferrero	$13,998,165	1998	2012
52	Diego Schwartzman	$13,897,138	2010	Current
53	Philipp Kohlschreiber	$13,749,731	2001	Current
54	Sam Querrey	$13,679,265	2006	Current
55	Tommy Haas	$13,609,987	1996	2017
56	Tommy Robredo	$13,467,681	1998	2022
57	Taylor Fritz	$13,460,169	2015	Current
58	Carlos Moya	$13,443,970	1995	Current
59	Marcel Granollers	$12,942,142	2003	Current
60	Daniel Nestor	$12,835,671	1991	2018
61	Nicolas Mahut	$12,678,440	2000	Current
62	Michael Stich	$12,595,128	1988	1997
63	John McEnroe	$12,552,132	1978	2006
64	Nick Kyrgios	$12,486,696	2013	Current
65	Thomas Muster	$12,266,977	1985	2011
66	Hubert Hurkacz	$12,193,749	2015	Current
67	Jack Sock	$11,952,110	2011	2023
68	Andreas Seppi	$11,816,212	2002	2022
69	Jannik Sinner	$11,776,498	2018	Current
70	Max Mirnyi	$11,763,620	1996	2018
71	Tim Henman	$11,635,542	1993	2007
72	Sergi Bruguera	$11,632,199	1988	2002
73	Matteo Berrettini	$11,546,845	2015	Current
74	Borna Coric	$11,536,029	2013	Current
75	Felix Auger-Aliassime	$11,440,621	2017	Current
76	Radek Stepanek	$11,343,464	1996	2017
77	Adrian Mannarino	$11,236,452	2004	Current
78	Patrick Rafter	$11,133,128	1991	2001
79	David Nalbandian	$11,123,125	2000	Current
80	Denis Shapovalov	$11,052,226	2017	Current
81	Jeremy Chardy	$10,857,975	2005	Current
82	Nicolas Almagro	$10,752,234	2003	Current
83	Jurgen Melzer	$10,739,212	1999	2021
84	Alex de Minaur	$10,585,404	2015	Current
85	Albert Ramos-Vinolas	$10,567,918	2007	Current
86	Thomas Enqvist	$10,461,641	1991	2005
87	Petr Korda	$10,448,900	1987	2005
88	Robin Soderling	$10,423,124	2001	2011
89	Alex Corretja	$10,411,354	1991	2005
90	Benoit Paire	$10,289,316	2007	Current
91	Ivan Ljubicic	$10,181,121	1998	Current
92	Ivo Karlovic	$10,160,232	2000	2021
93	Cameron Norrie	$10,089,191	2017	Current
94	Todd Woodbridge	$10,078,820	1988	2005
95	Richard Krajicek	$10,077,425	1989	2003
96	Fabrice Santoro	$10,013,832	1989	2010
97	Wayne Ferreira	$9,969,617	1989	2005
98	Frances Tiafoe	$9,822,372	2015	Current
99	Ivan Dodig	$9,747,194	2004	Current
100	Marcelo Rios	$9,713,771	1994	Current

To the surprise of not very many, it is the four players who led the ‘golden generation’ of men’s tennis who find themselves locking out the top four berths in the all-time earnings table. Novak Djokovic sits top with $175.2m in career earnings, just over $40m more than Rafa Nadal in second.

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Even though injuries are seemingly getting the better of Nadal, he still has the ability to add to that figure of $134.6m. The same cannot be said for Roger Federer after his 2022 retirement and although it was a rather tearful moment, the Swiss star will not be crying with $130m in the bank.

Twice as much as what Andy Murray has managed to earn since turning pro in 2005. $64.1m has been snared by the former Wimbledon winner, but that is a considerable distance behind the three contemporaries ahead of him.

While the man in fifth place would at one time believed he would be top forever and when you think of tennis in the 1990’s, you think of only one man in particular – that being the legendary talent of America’s Pete Sampras.

Between 1988 and 2002, Sampras earned no less than $43.2m – a figure that even ninth-place David Ferrer could not beat between 2000 and 2019 after earning $31.4m with greater amounts of prize money available, an amount that three current world-class stars cannot beat either.

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The trio of Alexander Zverev, Stan Warwinka and Dannii Medvedev find themselves lying sixth through to eighth in the earnings list, neither of the trio mentioned have managed to even surpass $40m.

They all may do one day; they all may finally get the better of Sampras in fifth and push the long since retired player further down the list. At the same time, this only reinforces how dominant ‘Pistol Pete’ really was.

The fact that Sampras played in the generation before arguably does him a disservice when it comes to earning power. To put this into context, we can see what $43.2m would look like in 2002 if it went through an inflation calculator.

By Craig ONeal - cropped version of Pete Sampras, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5100846

That $43.2m now becomes $73.9m instead and therefore, an inflation adjustment on that figure would slot the now 52-year-old past Andy Murray but still nearly $55m behind Roger Federer – then again, I doubt Sampras will be worrying too much about inflation with $43.2m in the bank.

As mentioned, it is David Ferrer who sits ninth in the standings and the 10th seed in terms of earnings is Marin Cilic. The Croat currently has total earnings of $31.2m and has recently surpassed another great and retired American Andre Agassi.

By Shinya Suzuki from New York, U.S.A. - Andre Agassi, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19844935

Agassi’s $31.1m was previously worthy of a top-10 berth but since Cilic has recently surpassed that figure with $31.2m to his name, the 1992 Wimbledon champion now has to keep the likes of Dominic Thiem and Stefanos Tsitsipas at bay.

Another way to look at this is by doing a quick count of how many of the current top 100 are still playing and how many are retired:

status	count
Current	52
Retired	48

Something that suggests that this figure is only going to be tipped further towards the ‘Current’ status as the year’s go by and this is because the prize money and the amount of touring has only increased over the years.

Of those 48 players that are now retired, we can also look at whether they find themselves in the top or bottom 50 of the overall top 100.

status	count
Top 50	24
Bottom 50	24

As we can see here, it is a clean split between the two categories but to add a bit more credence to the fact that retired players are getting pushed further down the list, the average position of all top-100 retired players is 52.37.

Therefore, if you are a retired player, you are just more likely to be positioned between 51 and 100 at present but with the inability to earn any further prize money – that is unless they step out of retirement, that average is only going to get higher.

Especially if you took away the earnings of Roger Federer and Pete Sampras and their third and fifth rankings. With these two doing so much of the heavy lifting for the 48 retired players, the average excluding these two greats increases to 54.47.

While the gold rush that comes with modern men’s tennis can be encapsulated by the increase in winning prize money at Wimbledon. To reflect this further, here is a table of winning prize money since 1994.

Year	Men's Winner (£)
1994	345,000
1995	365,000
1996	392,500
1997	415,000
1998	435,000
1999	455,000
2000	477,500
2001	500,000
2002	525,000
2003	575,000
2004	602,500
2005	630,000
2006	655,000
2007	700,000
2008	750,000
2009	850,000
2010	1,000,000
2011	1,100,000
2012	1,150,000
2013	1,600,000
2014	1,760,000
2015	1,880,000
2016	2,000,000
2017	2,200,000
2018	2,250,000
2019	2,350,000
2021	1,700,000
2022	2,000,000
2023	2,350,000

From £345,000 that Pete Sampras won in 1994 to the £2.35m that Carlos Alcaraz won in the summer of 2023. This is a prize money increase of 581% - nearly six-fold in the space of 29 editions of the tournament (not contested in 2020 due to Covid-19.

Therefore, those who are playing the modern game are going to be able to turbocharge their overall earnings and you do not even need to win to get your hands on a decent payout at SW19.

2023 Event	W	F	SF	QF	Round of 16	Round of 32	Round of 64	Round of 1281
Singles	£2,350,000	£1,175,000	£600,000	£340,000	£207,000	£131,000	£85,000	£55,000

Pete Sampras earned £345,000 for his 1994 success; four losing quarter finalists would have earned just £5,000 less when reaching the last eight in 2023. Even Novak Djokovic would have earned more for finishing runner-up that year compared to winning the same tournament in 2011.

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It took from 1994 to 2007 for the winning prize money at Wimbledon to double in size, since it being worth £700,000 in 2007 that figure has now more than troubled. Add that scale into the other three Grand Slam’s and you can understand how easy it is to start racking up the millions.

To shine further light on the step change in earnings, we can also look at players who are outside the top 100 in the all-time earnings list but also topped the ATP rankings at the end of a year.

Year	Player	All-time
1973	Ilie Năstase	$2,076,761
1974-1978	Jimmy Connors	$8,641,040
1979-1980	Björn Borg	$3,655,751
1988	Mats Wilander	$7,948,601

1973 would see Ilie Nastase top the ATP rankings and the Romanian would go on to win $2.0m over his career – a figure that if corrected for inflation today would be $13.8m 50 years later. For the next five years it would be Jimmy Connors at the top and he eventually earned $8.6m across his career.

Before the 1970’s had come to an end, it was Bjorn Borg who was the best player in the world but by comparison, the Swede would only manage to earn $3.6m for his efforts – a figure that was eventually doubled and more by 1988’s number one Mats Wilander.

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With all this being said, the career of a tennis star can be a long one and therefore, it makes sense to look at the average earnings per year. It is all very well earning an eye-watering amount of money but if it takes two decades or more to collect it, the toil is slightly less glamorous.

If we take the top 20 of the all-time earnings list and then rank them by average earnings per year, the table looks as follows:

Overall Rank	Player	Career	Turned Pro	Active Years	Average Per Year
1	Novak Djokovic	$175,281,484	2003	21	$8,346,737.33
2	Rafael Nadal	$134,640,719	2001	23	$5,853,944.30
3	Roger Federer	$130,594,339	1998	25	$5,223,773.56
8	Daniil Medvedev	$34,433,626	2014	10	$3,443,362.60
14	Stefanos Tsitsipas	$27,325,433	2016	8	$3,415,679.13
4	Andy Murray	$64,187,601	2005	19	$3,378,294.79
6	Alexander Zverev	$36,565,128	2013	11	$3,324,102.55
5	Pete Sampras	$43,280,489	1988	15	$2,885,365.93
12	Dominic Thiem	$29,983,300	2011	13	$2,306,407.69
19	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	$23,883,797	1992	12	$1,990,316.42
7	Stan Wawrinka	$36,505,406	2002	22	$1,659,336.64
10	Marin Cilic	$31,207,381	2005	19	$1,642,493.74
13	Tomas Berdych	$29,491,328	2002	18	$1,638,407.11
9	David Ferrer	$31,483,911	2000	20	$1,574,195.55
17	Boris Becker	$25,080,956	1984	16	$1,567,559.75
18	Grigor Dimitrov	$24,148,180	2008	16	$1,509,261.25
11	Andre Agassi	$31,152,975	1986	21	$1,483,475.00
16	Kei Nishikori	$25,102,112	2007	17	$1,476,594.82
15	Juan Martin del Potro	$25,896,046	2005	19	$1,362,949.79
20	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	$22,458,018	2004	19	$1,182,000.95

Novak Djokovic once again finds himself top of proceedings and with him being in his 21st of active playing service, it means he is currently earning an average of $8.3m a year - $2.5m more than Rafa Nadal in second.

Just as in the all-time table, the top three is rounded off by Roger Federer and with 25 years’ worth of tennis activity to look back upon, his $130.5m ended up paying him an average of $5.2m every 12 months.

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However, things start to get slightly more interesting after this and when we look at the two players that round out the average top five, it further highlights how the new breed of the sport are beginning to reap the rewards.

Fourth place is currently a straight shootout between Dannii Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas. The Russian earns an average of $3.44m a year, his Greek counterpart earns $3.41m by comparison and the key to all of this is that neither has surpassed more than 10 years of ATP tennis.

In just 10 years on the court for Medvedev and eight for Tsitsipas, their average figures have already surpassed what Andy Murray earns per annum and it took the son of Judy some 19 years to amass his total of $64.1m.

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If Medvedev plays for 19 years himself, his current projected earnings will amass just over $65m and this is before the expected increases in prize money are facilitated to any future Grand Slam tournaments.

Which means it is match point for those who are ready to finally fill the tennis shoes of the previous awesome foursome and with Medvedev, Tsitsipas and Carlos Alcaraz already capable of mixing it with the best, they will soon be maxing out their earning potential to even greater effect.

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This article started as an idea to find the top earners in Tennis, so we set Dan Tracey, our data scientist, on the task of collecting and crunching. He also added his commentary throughout, with our Tennis Specialist Editor James Banting fact-checking and editing before publication

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