How much money and how many points did Madison Keys, Coco Gauff, Emma Raducanu earn at Australian Open?
Madison Keys walked away with the biggest winner’s cheque of her career after winning the 2025 Australian Open, but surprisingly not by that much compared to her 2017 US Open final runners-up earnings.
Eight years after losing the final at Flushing Meadows against Sloane Stephens, the 29-year-old returned to her first Grand Slam final and this time she was the last player standing.
The American produced a series of incredible performances as she defeated 10th seed Danielle Collins, sixth seed Elena Rybakina, 28th seed Elina Svitolina and second seed Iga Swiatek to set up a showdown with two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka.
And it typically went the distance with Keys coming away a 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 against the reigning world No 1.
But how much money and how many points did Keys and the other big names earn during the season-opening major at Melbourne Park?
Tennis’ newest Grand Slam winner earned A$3,500,000, which when converted comes to roughly US$2,211,000 and £1,780,000, just over 20% more than what she was paid in 2017 at the US Open.
On that occasion, she received a cheque of US$1,825,000 for finishing runner-up to Stephens in New York.
Keys started the Australian Open with career prize money of US$18,854,583 and it jumped to US$19,018,583 after her big payday.
The American also picked up 2,000 ranking points and will move up seven places to No 7 in the WTA Rankings, equalling her previous career high.
Sabalenka may not have defended her title, but she managed to hold off Swiatek in the battle for the No 1 ranking after reaching the final.
The Belarusian earned 1,300 points and sits on 8,956 points while she was also paid A$1,900,000 (US$1,2m and £1,9m).
Swiatek and Badosa were the two players who lost in the semi-finals and they received $1,100,000 (about US$695,000 and £559,000) to go with 780 points.
Coco Gauff, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Svitolina and Emma Navarro went out in the quarter-finals and each player went home with 430 points and A$665,000 (US$420,00 and £338,000).
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The likes of Jasmine Paolini, Jessica Pegula, Collins, Ons Jabeur and Emma Raducanu lost in the third round and they earned A$290,000 (US$183,000 and £147,000) while 130 points were added to tallies in the WTA Rankings.
The players who lost in the first round earned 10 points (although those who came through qualifying will have picked up an extra 30 points) and A$132,000 (US$83,000 and £67,000) with an added bonus of A$72,000 if you won three matches in qualifying.
Lucky loser Eva Lys reached the fourth round and went home with A$420,000 (US$265,000 and £214,000) plus A$49,000 (US$31,000 and £25,000) after reaching the second round of qualifying.
