The 2022 WTA Season It’s not over yet: the eight best tennis players of the year are in Fort Worth, Texas, with WTA Finals in dispute. However, there is no doubt about who the great woman of the year was in this sport: the Pole Iga Swiatek has dominated the world rankings since Ashleigh Barty’s retirement at the start of 2022 and has had some crushing moments in this season in which she has already won the Grand Slams at Roland Garros and the US Openthe WTA 1000 in Doha, Miami, Rome and Indian Wells and two other tournaments.
In Texas, Swiatek is currently maintaining his excellent form, since he was WTA 500 Ostrava runner-up and WTA 500 San Diego winner in the only two tournaments he played in October. She made her debut 6-2 6-3 against Daria Kasatkina and dropped 6-3 6-2 to Caroline Garcia.
Those two wins already earn the 21-year-old Pole a $330,000 check in Texas for two wins, but Iga is in line to earn a lot more: in case he is the undefeated champion (must win three more matches) will receive $1,680,000a huge amount that would reach the millions he has earned during a historic 2022.
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Currently Swiatek won $9,735,000 this season, counting exclusively the money received from tournament prizes (which players do not pocket 100% due to the existence of taxes). This number is the highest of any tennis player on the year, regardless of gender. Something very important, considering the disparity in prize money that still exists between the women’s track and the men’s track: for example, while the WTA Finals hand out five million dollars, the ATP Finals hand out $14.7 million total.
The highest paid male tennis player in 2022 is currently Carlos Alcaraz, world number 1 and the last US Open champion: the Spaniard adds $7.6 million until Thursday, November 3, after qualifying for the quarterfinals of the Paris Masters 1000. Alcaraz, should he become champion in Paris and then go undefeated at the ATP Finals, it would be just over $10 million in money award of 2022. Swiatek, if the undefeated champion in Texas, will exceed the 11 million mark
That the prize money of the most successful tennis player of a season exceeds that of the best man of the year is something completely unusual: in the 21st century it only happened in the 2003 seasonnever Justine Henin won $4,466,000 after winning eight tournaments, including Roland Garros and the US Open, while Roger Federer was at four million after winning seven tournaments, including Wimbledon and the ATP Finals.
The irregularity that the great protagonists of the male circuit had (and Novak Djokovic’s absences, as well as Rafael Nadal’s injuries) had an impact on this, it’s true: in 2013 Serena Williams raised over $12 million in 2019 as well Ashley Barty won more than 11 million, but were dwarfed by 14.5 and 16.3 million, in both cases, Rafael Nadal.
