Star names together with Sinner, Aryna Sabalenka and Alexander Zverev are among the many high 20 males’s and girls’s gamers asking the 4 majors for the entire area to obtain the next ratio of prize money-to-revenue.
The group additionally need extra session concerning the construction of the game, plus elevated contributions from the Grand Slams into pension, healthcare and maternity pots.
Whereas Tennis Australia’s 2025 accounts haven’t but been made public, the Australian Monetary Evaluation reported, exterior the governing physique – whose revenue is basically generated by the Australian Open – earned $697.2m (£346m) in complete income.
That determine would imply this yr’s Australian Open prize cash is about 16% of the organising physique’s income.
In 2025, the US Open supplied 16% of its earlier yr’s income to the gamers, with Wimbledon (13%) and the French Open – which doesn’t make its figures accessible – providing a decrease share.
The main gamers have requested every Grand Slam for a staged improve over the subsequent 5 years, ultimately main nearer to the 22% mark which they obtain at among the ATP and WTA mixed tour occasions.
This yr’s rise in complete prize cash means the Australian Open is providing greater than Wimbledon (£53.5m) and the French Open (£47.5m) did in 2025, though it’s nonetheless behind the US Open (£67.4m).
The Australian Open begins in Melbourne on 18 January.
