2023 US Open Tennis winner gets $3,000,000 how much does 2023 Eugene Dl winner make?

Probably more like $3,000

30K is the answer. But tennis has 2 Singles champions as opposed to 32. Also appearance fees are not a part of tennis majors. But yeah there’s more money in tennis

But in the round of 16 in tennis there are 32 players who would make a minimum of $284,000

According to Wikipedia Djokovic has a career earnings of over $172, 000, 000 and counting, and this excludes endorsements. Bolt is worth $90 million and used to make $20-30 million per year (so not too shabby), but his actual earnings from competition and appearance fees was < $3 million total! Of course Nadal and Federer are right behind Novak. After Bolt probably the next highest earner is likely a factor of 10 less. Allyson Felix, Carl Lewis, Kipchoge etc all generated 10-20x less earnings than Bolt.

There’s undoubtedly more money in tennis. But it’s also a very top heavy sport. If you’re outside the top 100 in the world, you’re often struggling to cover expenses. Contrast tennis and running with sports like football or soccer where there are hundreds earning in excess of 1M per year.

the one that always baffles me is golf - it’s very lucrative and I can’t figure out how they generate so much money. I guess a lot of old folks like to watch golf on TV

I don't see any of the players outside of the top 100 struggling. They have generally made $300k to $134 milllion in the 100-200 rankings (Nadal is 139th now). A few have dipped into the $100k's but only because they're 18 or so and just getting started.

Partially countered by their very high expense sheet. Traveling (and tennis players do a lot more traveling than track athletes, to more distant places around the world), room&board, coaching (if they can even afford it), medical, equipment (no big $$$ sponsorships for lower guys), and so forth are all covered out of their own dime.

A ticket for the upper deck of today’s semifinal is $250; $1,650 for courtside.

The upper deck at Hayward for Saturday is $25 (not sure about the finish straight). There’s a lot of tickets left.

Nike Beaverton is giving away tickets for FREE to get people in the stands.

But if you're outside the top 100 in the world in tennis you're probably making more than if you're something like 25th in whatever your track event is. The same probably is true for golf. One thing that we don't discuss much here when we get into how much more money golf and tennis players get compared to runners is how little time runners spend competing compared to golfers and tennis players. The finalists in New York will be playing in their fifth match in a bit more than a week. It might just be the fourth but I'm pretty sure it's the fifth. The men's matches will usually last somewhere between two and four hours. Sverev's and Simmer's quarterfinal took four hours and forty one minutes. And in another week or two they'll be in some tournament where they'll only play three set matches that will probably get done in an hour or two as the year winds down.

Tennis players and golfers probably spend literally hundreds of times as many hours competing in a year than track athletes do and that's going to translate to much bigger incomes. Someone here said that Bolt was making $20-$30 million a year. How much total time did he spend actually competing in a typical year? I'd probably set the over/under line at about an hour, certainly no more than two hours. I do think that what top track athletes earn compared to golfers and tennis players earn is pathetic. But part of the reason for that is how infrequently track athletes compete.

A certificate good for a free Communication Breakdown burger, a small basket of Cajun Tots, and a pint of beer at the McMenamins down the street.

An amazon gift voucher.

Here if you win a local 5K you get like £50 and a bottle of wine. Previous winners have run 13:50ish which is faster than the womens world record but it counts for nothing.

Try bragging that your are the 2023 DL Champion. See if you can get a free meal at a restaurant.

Tennis is possibly the most boring sport in the world to watch. 3+ hours of back and forth, back and forth until one of them misses, etc etc. Worse than basketball.

It's like golf with racquets. I'm amazed anyone watches it.