Most prize money won by a tennis player at a single tournament (male)

World No.1 Jannik Sinner (Italy) went home $4,881,100 (£3,866,798) richer from the 2024 ATP Finals after progressing through the tournament undefeated, and without losing a set in the five matches he played at the Inalpi Arena (aka the Palasport Olimpico) in Turin, Italy, on 10–17 November. It was the biggest-ever payday for a champion at a top-level tennis tournament on either the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) or WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) tours, and was achieved just eight days after Cori “Coco” Gauff had pocketed a then-record $4,805,000 (£3,711,536) by winning the WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 9 November.

Sinner, 23, maximised his earnings by winning all three of his group-stage matches (each worth $396,500; £314,107), a semi-final against Casper Ruud ($1,123,400; £889,955) and the final against Taylor Fritz ($2,237,200; £1,772,305), which, when added to his participation fee of $331,000 (£262,218), brought the Brad Drewett Trophy-winner’s cheque to a stellar $4.881 million.

With the tournament’s overall prize money once again on the increase (up 1.67% on 2023), Sinner was able to eclipse the $4,740,300 (then £3,987,635) won by Novak Djokovic on 20 November 2022 after the Serbian’s undefeated week at the ATP Finals. This amount stood as the heftiest single-tournament payday in history before Gauff, and then Sinner, raised the stakes as the curtain fell on the 2024 tennis season. For the first time since 2016, the prize pot for both end-of-season tournaments were the same ($15.25 million, or £11.77 million), but Sinner’s winner’s cheque was bigger for being an undefeated champion; Gauff lost one of her three group matches in Riyadh.

Sinner rounded off his week on home soil by defeating fifth seed Taylor Fritz 6–4, 6–4 in Turin on 17 November. In doing so, he became the first Italian player to win the ATP Finals (staging its 55th edition in 2024), which began as the Masters Grand Prix in 1970. He was the first man to win the tournament without losing a set since Ivan Lendl in 1986. For reaching the final and winning two of his three group matches, Fritz, the first American to reach the championship match since 2006, scooped $2,247,400 (£1,780,386). Sinner had won just over $12 million (£9.3 million) in 2024 before cruising to his first singles title at the ATP Finals.