Tennis: €43.6m in prize money for Roland-Garros 2022 (+6.8% vs 2019), €2.2m for each singles winner

The prize money for the 2022 edition of Roland-Garros, which runs from 22/05 to 05/06/2022, is €43.6m, an increase of 6.8% compared to 2019 (the last edition of the tournament organised under normal conditions, before the Covid-19 pandemic, with €42.661m in prize money) and 27% compared to 2021 (€34.367m), announced the FFT, the tournament's organising body, on 04/05/2022.

The winners of the men's and women's singles will take home €2.2m, the singles finalists €1,100,000, while the winners of the doubles (men's and women's) will receive €580,000. Compared to 2019, the prize money awarded to singles winners has dropped by 4% (€2.3m in 2019), while the amount awarded to players eliminated in the first round has increased by 35% to €62,000 (€46,000 in 2019).

"A substantial effort has also been made on the qualifiers, whose prize money increases by 66% compared to 2019 and by 30% compared to 2021. The increase in the prize money for the first round of the singles draw and the qualifiers makes it possible to support groups of players who have suffered the most from the health crisis in…