Highest earnings in a tennis career (male)

At the conclusion of his truncated 2024 season, Novak Djokovic (Serbia) had accumulated prize money – from singles and (infrequent) doubles combined – of $185,065,269 (£142,691,985; €169,909,349). Since turning pro in 2003, the 24-time Grand Slam singles champion’s career highlights have included an unprecedented 10 singles titles at the Australian Open (2008, 2011–13, 2015–16, 2019–21 and 2023), seven wins at the end-of-season ATP Finals (2008, 2012–15 and 2022–23), 99 titles on the ATP Tour, 1,124 match wins (from 1,346 matches played) and – as of the week commencing 4 November 2024 – an unrivalled 428 weeks at the top of the men’s world rankings.

In 2024, despite winning just one title (Olympic singles gold in Paris) and finishing the year without adding to his haul of 24 Grand Slam titles – the first year in which he hadn’t won at least one major singles tournament since 2017 – Djokovic still boosted his bank balance by $4,421,915 (£3,409,456; €4,059,782) with runs to the final of Wimbledon (lost to Carlos Alcaraz) and the Shanghai Masters (lost to Jannik Sinner) and the semi-finals of the Australian Open (lost to Sinner) and the Monte-Carlo Masters (lost to Casper Ruud). Rafael Nadal ($134,946,100; £104,048,301; €123,894,689) and Roger Federer ($130,594,339; £100,692,937; €119,899,316) were second and third on the ATP’s Prize Money Leaders list as of the week commencing 4 November 2024. Fifth-placed Alexander Zverev, the highest-ranked active player after Djokovic and the soon-to-be-retired Nadal, had pocketed $46,023,424 (£35,485,717; €42,254,336) by the same date. Andy Murray was fourth with earnings of $64,687,542 (£49,876,424; €59,389,956).