This year’s total represents a jump of more than 10% from 2022. Total prizes sank during that span, too, including to 34 million euros in 2021. During the coronavirus pandemic, those prizes dropped to 1.6 million euros in 2020 and 1.4 million euros in 2021, before going back up to 2.2 million euros a year ago. The title winners in singles will get the same pay as in 2019, which was the high mark in Paris.
Qualifying begins May 22 main-draw play starts May 28. The French tennis federation announced Friday what it will be offering at the clay-court Grand Slam event.
PARIS – Paychecks for the two French Open singles champions will return to the pre-pandemic amount of 2.3 million euros each – about $2.5 million – and the total prize money is rising to a tournament-record 49.6 million euros – about $54 million. The 36-year-old Nadal did not mention his prospects for being fit for the French Open starting on May 28. “The re-adaptation process needs its time, and I don’t have any choice other than to accept that.” “Despite noting an improvement in recent days, it has been several months since I have been able to train at a high level,” he wrote. Nadal said even though he feels better he is not ready to play. The issue had already kept him from playing at Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Madrid. The 22-time Grand Slam winner has been sidelined since January by a left hip flexor injury he picked up at the Australian Open. Nadal has won the Italian Open a record 10 times. “You all know how much it hurts me to miss another one of the tournaments that has a place in my career as a professional and a person as well as for the support my Italian fans show me.” “I’m sorry to announce that I won’t be able to be in Rome,” Nadal said in a Twitter post in Spanish. MADRID – Rafael Nadal won’t be able to play the Italian Open either as he remains hampered by a nagging hip injury.
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