Points and money earned by Jessica Pegula, Iga Swiatek, Mirra Andreeva, Naomi Osaka at Bad Homburg
Jessica Pegula won her ninth career title when she defeated Iga Swiatek in the Bad Homburg Open final, but how many points and how much prize money did the two finalists earn?
In their final Wimbledon warm-up tournament, Pegula defeated the five-time Grand Slam winner 6-4, 7-5 as she won her second title on grass.
For Swiatek, it was her maiden final on grass and she was very complimentary of her American opponent after the match.
“You have an amazing game and you showed it throughout the tournament,” the Pole told Pegula. “Hopefully we will have many more finals together.”
Swiatek added: “I feel it is going a good way and thank you for the opportunity to play here. This tournament shows there is hope for me on grass.”
But finalists earned a healthy points tally, but only Swiatek had a positional change in the WTA Rankings.
WTA Points Earned At Bad Homburg
The winners of WTA 500 events earn 500 points while the runners-up receive 325, but players also have to defend their points from the corresponding period the previous year.
Top seed Pegula, thus, earned 500 points for winning the tournament, but she was also dropped points from 12 months ago and will add 392 to her overall total when the rankings are updated on Monday, moving to 6,440.
She will solidify her third place behind world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff.
Former world No 1 Swiatek started the tournament in eighth place, but she will climb four places as she collected the full haul of 325 points as she didn’t compete in any events at the same time last year.
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Second seed Jasmine Paolini and the unseeded Linda Noskova reached the semi-finals where 195 points are available and the Italian reached the same stage of the Eastbourne Open last year so her points from this year cancelled out the 2024 total.
Noskova collected 135 points and will climb three places to No 27 in the rankings.
Quarter-finalists earn 108 points and Emma Navarro was -87 while Mirra Andreeva was +107, and Ekaterina Alexandrova and Beatriz Haddad Maia were both +48.
Naomi Osaka, Elina Svitolina and Victoria Azarenka were some of the high-profile players who lost in the second round and Osaka was +60, Svitolina +59 and Azarenka +85.
WTA Prize Money Earned At Bad Homburg
Finalists Pegula and Swiatek have earned $18m and $36m, respectively, so far in their careers so prize money from the German event will feel like a drop.
Pegula picked up a cheque of €142,610 ($167,000) while Swiatek earned €87,825 ($103,000).
Paolini and Noskova went home with €51,305 ($60,000), those who lost in the last eight received €27,040 ($32,000) and those who lost in the second round got €13,760 ($4,400).