Pro Tennis staggering prize money gap
For two hours work on Rod Laver Arena, Djokovic earnt $310,000 — the difference between reaching the quarters and the semis.
Compare that to Australian journeyman John Millman, who since turning pro in 2006 has earned $304,009.
It’s a startling example of the growing inequality in professional tennis that one player can earn more in one night than another has in almost 10 years on the circuit.
* OF the combined 13,736 male and female professional players in the world in 2013, 6108 didn’t earn a cent of prizemoney.
* OF the $162 million of prizemoney paid in men’s competition, $97.5 million went to the top one per cent of players (the top 50).
* ON average it cost about $160,000 a year to compete on the pro circuit and only 1.8 per cent of men and 3.1 per cent of women earnt enough to cover.
* OF the $120 million paid in women’s, more than half went to the top 26.
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