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Motor City Open squash prize money

The Motor City Open has paid £397,583 across 7 tournaments from 2019 to 2026. In 2026 Diego Elías took £11,129.

PAID IN TOTAL£398k
EDITIONS7
2026 TOP PRIZE£11k
PLAYERS PAID81
RANK26 of 97

Every edition

Who won, what they took, and what the tournament paid in all

Every edition of the Motor City Open with its winner, the winner's prize and the total paid.
YEAR WINNER TOP PRIZE PAID
2026 Diego Elías £11,129£11k £58,571£59k
2025 Paul Coll £11,129£11k £58,571£59k
2024 Diego Elías £10,857£11k £56,143£56k
2023 Diego Elías £10,857£11k £57,143£57k
2022 Diego Elías £10,857£11k £57,143£57k
2020 Diego Elías £10,314£10k £54,442£54k
2019 Mohamed Abouelghar £10,558£11k £55,571£56k

Prize money paid, edition by edition

The Motor City Open 2026 payouts

What each finishing place was worth at the latest edition

Prize money by finishing place at the Motor City Open 2026.
PLACE PLAYERS EACH BAND TOTAL
Winner 1 £11,129£11k £11,129£11k
Runner-up 1 £7,029£7k £7,029£7k
Semi-final 2 £4,393£4k £8,786£9k
Quarter-final 4 £2,636£3k £10,544£11k
Last 16 8 £1,611£2k £12,884£13k
Last 32 8 £1,025£1k £8,198£8k

Every cheque by name is on the Motor City Open 2026 payouts page.

Who has earned the most at the Motor City Open

Prize money won here, across every edition we hold

The players who have won the most prize money at the Motor City Open.
# PLAYER NATION WINS PRIZE MONEY
1 Diego Elías Peru 5 £62,293£62k
2 Paul Coll New Zealand 1 £24,843£25k
3 Marwan El Shorbagy England 0 £16,211£16k
4 Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Colombia 0 £16,047£16k
5 Fares Dessouky Egypt 0 £15,429£15k
6 Mohamed Abouelghar Egypt 1 £15,233£15k
7 Mohamed ElSherbini Egypt 0 £15,054£15k
8 Mazen Hesham Egypt 0 £10,957£11k
9 César Salazar Mexico 0 £9,711£10k
10 Adrian Waller England 0 £9,240£9k
11 Tarek Momen Egypt 0 £8,571£9k
12 Dimitri Steinmann Switzerland 0 £8,029£8k
13 Leonel Cárdenas Mexico 0 £8,029£8k
14 Nicolas Müller Switzerland 0 £7,282£7k
15 Ng Eain Yow Malaysia 0 £6,965£7k
16 Yahya Elnawasany Egypt 0 £6,004£6k
17 Aly Abou Eleinen Egypt 0 £5,965£6k
18 Nathan Lake England 0 £5,675£6k
19 Zahed Mohamed Egypt 0 £5,661£6k
20 Shahjahan Khan United States 0 £5,547£6k
21 Timothy Brownell United States 0 £5,232£5k
22 George Parker England 0 £4,636£5k
23 Karim El Hammamy Egypt 0 £4,586£5k
24 Ramit Tandon India 0 £4,586£5k
25 Juan Camilo Vargas Colombia 0 £4,208£4k

The top 12 here

Diego Elías £62k Paul Coll £25k Marwan El Shorbagy £16k Miguel Ángel Rodríguez £16k Fares Dessouky £15k Mohamed Abouelghar £15k Mohamed ElSherbini £15k Mazen Hesham £11k César Salazar £9,711 Adrian Waller £9,240 Tarek Momen £8,571 Dimitri Steinmann £8,029

Other squash tournaments

The tournaments either side of the Motor City Open by prize money paid

Squash tournaments ranked around the Motor City Open.
# TOURNAMENT EDITIONS PAID
14 Women's Windy City Open 9 £1,207,353£1.2m
15 Women's Egyptian Open 5 £1,128,437£1.1m
16 Women's Hong Kong Open 13 £1,123,052£1.1m
17 Women's El Gouna Open 8 £1,083,551£1.1m
18 Women's Qatar Classic 7 £789,188£789k
19 Women's Black Ball Open 8 £772,301£772k
20 Men's Black Ball Open 6 £569,956£570k
21 Women's China Open 8 £488,919£489k
22 Men's Grasshopper Cup 5 £429,479£429k
23 Men's Australian Open 5 £427,102£427k
24 Men's Optasia Championships 5 £423,042£423k
25 Canary Wharf Classic 5 £404,893£405k
26 Motor City Open 7 £397,583£398k
27 Women's Grasshopper Cup 4 £346,772£347k
28 Women's Manchester Open 6 £332,505£333k
29 Men's China Open 4 £331,996£332k
30 Women's Singapore Open 5 £328,578£329k
31 Men's NetSuite Open 4 £323,276£323k
32 North American Open 4 £312,038£312k
33 Women's NetSuite Open 4 £300,810£301k
34 Men's Paris Open 2 £295,880£296k
35 Women's Paris Open 2 £295,880£296k
36 Women's Australian Open 5 £292,229£292k
37 Men's Manchester Open 5 £278,219£278k
Women's Windy City Open £1.2m Women's Egyptian Open £1.1m Women's Hong Kong Open £1.1m Women's El Gouna Open £1.1m Women's Qatar Classic £789k Women's Black Ball Open £772k Men's Black Ball Open £570k Women's China Open £489k Men's Grasshopper Cup £429k Men's Australian Open £427k Men's Optasia Championships £423k Canary Wharf Classic £405k Motor City Open £398k Women's Grasshopper Cup £347k Women's Manchester Open £333k Men's China Open £332k Women's Singapore Open £329k Men's NetSuite Open £323k North American Open £312k Women's NetSuite Open £301k Men's Paris Open £296k Women's Paris Open £296k Women's Australian Open £292k Men's Manchester Open £278k

Frequently asked questions

How much did the winner get at the Motor City Open 2026?

Diego Elías took £11,129. The whole tournament paid £58,571 across 24 players.

How much prize money has the Motor City Open paid?

£397,583 across 7 editions from 2019 to 2026. The richest was the Motor City Open 2026, at £58,571.

Who has won the most money at the Motor City Open?

Diego Elías, with £62,293 and 5 wins. Paul Coll is next on £24,843.

Who has won the Motor City Open the most times?

Diego Elías, 5 times in the editions we hold.

Where does the Motor City Open rank for prize money?

26th of the 97 squash tournaments we hold, by total prize money paid.

Where to next

Every squash tournament and player is ranked on squash prize money. The latest edition is the Motor City Open 2026, and the one before it the Motor City Open 2025. What the men's and women's fields are paid is compared on men's vs women's squash prize money. How much of the pot a squash winner keeps, against every other sport, is on the winner's share of prize money. How far down the field the money runs, against every other sport, is on how deep prize money pays.