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TENNIS · 193 PLAYERS PAID

The 1998 tennis prize money list

$72,813,730 won on court in 1998, split between 193 players. Pete Sampras took $3,931,497 of it.

Every player the tour paid in 1998, ranked by what they won that season and nothing else. A career total rewards longevity; a season list rewards the year, which is why the two rankings almost never agree at the top. The season is up 0.8% on 1997, and is the 21th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

PAID OUT $72.8m
TOP EARNER $3.9m
PLAYERS PAID 193
OVER $1M 17
FROM THE MAJORS 20.1%

The twenty biggest earners of 1998

Prize money won in the 1998 season

Top ten hold 34.6%

Pete Sampras $3.9m Marcelo Rios $3.4m Patrick Rafter $2.9m Alex Corretja $2.7m Carlos Moya $2.6m Yevgeny Kafelnikov $2.5m Jonas Bjorkman $1.9m Greg Rusedski $1.9m Andre Agassi $1.8m Goran Ivanisevic $1.5m Tim Henman $1.4m Karol Kucera $1.4m Petr Korda $1.3m Mark Philippoussis $1.3m Richard Krajicek $1.2m Michael Chang $1.2m Albert Costa $1.0m Paul Haarhuis $931k Felix Mantilla $824k Cedric Pioline $809k

Ten players out of 193 took 34.6% of the season. A prize-money sport concentrates that way by construction: there is no wage and no appearance money on this list, so everything follows the rounds, and a player who reaches the second week of four majors has out-earned a year of quarter-finals everywhere else.

What the top ten did the year before

1998 against 1997, for the ten biggest earners of 1998

1997 to 1998

# Player 1997 1998 Change
01 Pete Sampras United States $6,498,311 $3,931,497 -39.5%
02 Marcelo Rios Chile $1,397,445 $3,420,054 +144.7%
03 Patrick Rafter Australia $2,923,519 $2,867,017 -1.9%
04 Alex Corretja Spain $1,182,807 $2,702,569 +128.5%
05 Carlos Moya Spain $1,137,400 $2,572,553 +126.2%
06 Yevgeny Kafelnikov Russia $3,207,758 $2,543,077 -20.7%
07 Jonas Bjorkman Sweden $1,950,375 $1,916,237 -1.8%
08 Greg Rusedski Great Britain $1,515,473 $1,860,437 +22.8%
09 Andre Agassi United States $312,332 $1,836,233 +487.9%
10 Goran Ivanisevic Croatia $1,458,257 $1,541,177 +5.7%

A season list moves harder than a career list. Prize money is paid for results and nothing else, so a player who was hurt for half of 1997 can treble his money in a year without doing anything differently, and a player who slips two rounds at three majors loses a third of his.

Every player paid in 1998

Ranked by prize money won that season

193 players

# Player Titles W-L Events From majors Prize money
001 Pete Sampras United States 4 71-21 26 $995,537 $3,931,497$3.9m
002 Marcelo Rios Chile 7 85-27 37 $330,171 $3,420,054$3.4m
003 Patrick Rafter Australia 9 101-33 44 $876,432 $2,867,017$2.9m
004 Alex Corretja Spain 5 69-31 37 $407,319 $2,702,569$2.7m
005 Carlos Moya Spain 2 56-31 32 $876,593 $2,572,553$2.6m
006 Yevgeny Kafelnikov Russia 5 118-53 61 $99,052 $2,543,077$2.5m
007 Jonas Bjorkman Sweden 4 90-46 52 $367,746 $1,916,237$1.9m
008 Greg Rusedski Great Britain 2 62-23 30 $66,587 $1,860,437$1.9m
009 Andre Agassi United States 5 77-21 27 $105,413 $1,836,233$1.8m
010 Goran Ivanisevic Croatia 1 66-48 50 $438,747 $1,541,177$1.5m
011 Tim Henman Great Britain 2 76-42 46 $249,675 $1,448,770$1.4m
012 Karol Kucera Slovakia 2 65-35 35 $222,367 $1,402,557$1.4m
013 Petr Korda Czechia 2 46-23 25 $429,149 $1,292,864
014 Mark Philippoussis Australia 1 42-30 31 $525,552 $1,272,620
015 Richard Krajicek Netherlands 2 52-16 18 $238,344 $1,219,624
016 Michael Chang United States 2 38-19 21 $72,064 $1,164,314
017 Albert Costa Spain 2 53-28 29 $85,341 $1,013,446
018 Paul Haarhuis Netherlands 9 80-29 41 $333,102 $930,522
019 Felix Mantilla Spain 1 48-30 31 $216,001 $823,916
020 Cedric Pioline France 44-31 31 $213,008 $808,688
021 Todd Martin United States 2 58-32 37 $98,103 $771,943
022 Fabrice Santoro France 4 69-51 52 $82,417 $757,122
023 Jacco Eltingh Netherlands 10 62-6 19 $367,200 $751,325
024 Mark Woodforde Australia 5 91-46 53 $194,039 $736,370
025 Gustavo Kuerten Brazil 3 67-43 49 $75,029 $732,804
026 Todd Woodbridge Australia 5 86-41 48 $232,351 $695,297
027 Daniel Vacek Czechia 1 78-62 64 $101,413 $695,083
028 Leander Paes India 8 89-35 44 $129,181 $674,079
029 Thomas Johansson Sweden 55-40 40 $145,503 $667,858
030 Alberto Berasategui Spain 1 51-41 42 $111,820 $645,760
031 Jan Siemerink Netherlands 3 58-37 43 $178,840 $638,990
032 Nicolas Kiefer Germany 2 43-42 42 $127,828 $623,573
033 Tommy Haas Germany 1 49-35 38 $63,503 $618,633
034 Daniel Nestor Canada 4 75-37 46 $207,710 $562,695
035 Wayne Ferreira South Africa 1 53-42 42 $103,145 $546,230
036 Byron Black Zimbabwe 1 60-48 52 $121,953 $517,743
037 Thomas Enqvist Sweden 2 43-19 22 $65,682 $515,702
038 Sergi Bruguera Spain 14-28 27 $34,066 $503,826
039 Martin Damm Czechia 3 62-50 55 $78,950 $501,390
040 Thomas Muster Austria 36-24 24 $121,860 $488,775
041 David Prinosil Germany 2 45-49 55 $76,274 $475,839
042 Marc Rosset Switzerland 38-42 44 $51,102 $466,462
043 Hicham Arazi Morocco 27-31 32 $154,825 $458,735
044 Francisco Clavet Spain 2 46-26 28 $130,632 $446,552
045 Sebastien Lareau Canada 2 61-44 48 $115,205 $443,795
046 Jeff Tarango United States 1 49-58 61 $68,739 $443,009
047 Magnus Gustafsson Sweden 3 49-25 30 $83,892 $442,122
048 Nicolas Escude France 26-25 27 $151,010 $437,965
049 Bohdan Ulihrach Czechia 1 36-31 33 $62,376 $436,216
050 Magnus Larsson Sweden 1 26-18 20 $166,966 $430,511
051 Sandon Stolle Australia 4 56-40 50 $186,114 $415,552
052 Magnus Norman Sweden 1 33-36 37 $51,436 $412,839
053 Jan-Michael Gambill United States 34-30 31 $70,339 $393,524
054 Brett Steven New Zealand 1 55-39 41 $90,226 $392,176
055 Boris Becker Germany 1 26-20 22 $0 $389,470
056 Dominik Hrbaty Slovakia 2 49-39 41 $61,766 $389,146
057 Olivier Delaitre France 4 56-37 44 $35,475 $385,932
058 Alex O'Brien United States 3 57-41 48 $80,270 $370,615
059 Jiri Novak Czechia 7 76-47 55 $47,385 $369,125
060 Vincent Spadea United States 40-37 37 $68,444 $368,639
061 Slava Dosedel Czechia 1 41-34 38 $58,252 $367,257
062 Jason Stoltenberg Australia 41-27 28 $121,651 $367,061
063 Guillaume Raoux France 1 32-34 38 $76,250 $357,530
064 Richard Fromberg Australia 1 38-41 43 $62,332 $350,342
065 Mikael Tillstrom Sweden 2 46-43 46 $88,842 $349,130
066 Davide Sanguinetti Italy 1 52-44 46 $143,990 $342,495
067 Sjeng Schalken Netherlands 35-40 41 $38,982 $340,797
068 Andrei Medvedev Ukraine 27-27 29 $55,280 $334,620
069 Andrea Gaudenzi Italy 2 49-34 42 $44,125 $325,060
070 Nicolas Lapentti Ecuador 1 51-60 64 $72,317 $322,257
071 Fernando Meligeni Brazil 3 50-47 51 $85,096 $309,811
072 Javier Sanchez Spain 2 53-67 74 $74,251 $307,526
073 Jerome Golmard France 2 43-32 37 $80,394 $305,834
074 Richey Reneberg United States 1 49-35 39 $50,462 $305,107
075 Filip Dewulf Belgium 29-27 28 $121,679 $301,444
076 Scott Draper Australia 1 28-22 23 $58,963 $300,753
077 Marc-Kevin Goellner Germany 30-45 47 $77,715 $289,540
078 Andrei Pavel Romania 2 39-35 40 $22,916 $288,351
079 Jim Grabb United States 3 48-24 29 $43,474 $273,074
080 Gianluca Pozzi Italy 2 45-36 39 $48,831 $263,671
081 Mariano Puerta Argentina 4 66-44 49 $30,202 $262,537
082 Jim Courier United States 1 31-32 32 $27,143 $257,853
083 Arnaud Clement France 27-40 41 $42,268 $252,098
084 Carlos Costa Spain 1 31-29 31 $28,066 $250,941
085 Karim Alami Morocco 34-34 36 $39,816 $248,801
086 Fernando Vicente Spain 2 41-33 38 $34,227 $248,004
087 Kenneth Carlsen Denmark 1 31-34 36 $38,982 $242,882
088 Ramon Delgado Paraguay 36-31 35 $68,750 $240,820
089 Marat Safin Russia 1 35-33 37 $106,750 $236,565
090 Grant Stafford South Africa 3 41-43 49 $45,882 $234,882
091 Galo Blanco Spain 27-31 32 $38,982 $230,222
092 Albert Portas Spain 4 49-39 43 $26,982 $228,157
093 Sebastien Grosjean France 23-34 35 $75,959 $222,971
094 Sargis Sargsian Armenia 26-44 45 $67,851 $218,101
095 Justin Gimelstob United States 3 49-36 40 $76,173 $217,123
096 Juan Antonio Marin Costa Rica 36-35 35 $38,982 $216,867
097 Tomas Carbonell Spain 1 45-32 35 $14,696 $215,856
098 Jonathan Stark United States 2 38-30 34 $43,436 $208,175
099 Franco Squillari Argentina 1 42-28 32 $39,507 $200,586
100 Andrew Ilie Australia 3 33-25 29 $54,455 $184,890
101 Nicklas Kulti Sweden 2 35-21 36 $34,950 $183,777
102 Hendrik Dreekmann Germany 1 21-19 22 $42,112 $174,032
103 Jordi Burillo Spain 22-38 40 $57,231 $165,441
104 Guillermo Canas Argentina 3 39-29 35 $35,819 $162,658
105 Marcelo Filippini Uruguay 30-34 38 $44,982 $153,257
106 Mariano Zabaleta Argentina 1 32-21 24 $26,557 $149,122
107 Adrian Voinea Romania 1 33-19 22 $30,000 $147,480
108 Marcos Ondruska South Africa 4 59-55 60 $26,615 $142,485
109 Rainer Schuettler Germany 1 31-42 50 $10,916 $135,872
110 Lleyton Hewitt Australia 4 42-22 32 $12,255 $135,535
111 Wayne Arthurs Australia 3 45-40 50 $34,257 $128,940
112 Younes El Aynaoui Morocco 6 47-11 18 $0 $128,248
113 Alberto Martin Spain 2 68-59 63 $12,951 $124,594
114 Christian Ruud Norway 4 41-27 33 $18,293 $124,572
115 Lars Burgsmuller Germany 1 24-33 43 $6,293 $124,293
116 Hernan Gumy Argentina 1 23-23 25 $55,473 $123,858
117 David Wheaton United States 20-18 20 $59,970 $110,405
118 MaliVai Washington United States 13-16 16 $21,688 $106,823
119 Stefano Pescosolido Italy 2 39-34 40 $17,819 $103,348
120 Bernd Karbacher Germany 19-28 30 $27,773 $102,678
121 Andrei Olhovskiy Russia 2 25-25 29 $14,696 $86,051
122 Stefan Koubek Austria 2 36-27 30 $0 $85,575
123 Diego Nargiso Italy 1 45-28 36 $0 $84,900
124 Renzo Furlan Italy 1 23-31 37 $6,293 $75,571
125 Max Mirnyi Belarus 9 65-29 50 $9,182 $70,070
126 Andrei Cherkasov Russia 44-49 52 $0 $69,347
127 Libor Pimek Belgium 17-31 32 $13,875 $57,690
128 Xavier Malisse Belgium 10-10 12 $0 $56,760
129 Radek Stepanek Czechia 5 53-35 41 $0 $54,843
130 Raemon Sluiter Netherlands 3 26-19 22 $0 $54,763
131 Paul Goldstein United States 2 37-27 29 $22,000 $54,305
132 Agustin Calleri Argentina 8 60-30 40 $0 $51,892
133 Arnaud Boetsch France 6-15 19 $6,293 $49,418
134 Antony Dupuis France 2 25-18 26 $0 $37,444
135 Nicolas Massu Chile 4 67-31 40 $0 $36,084
136 Michael Russell United States 42-37 38 $16,000 $35,893
137 Taylor Dent United States 5-14 15 $22,000 $32,100
138 Jean-Philippe Fleurian France 10-12 15 $9,875 $29,835
139 Gilbert Schaller Austria 8-17 18 $6,293 $29,173
140 Gaston Gaudio Argentina 3 36-18 22 $0 $28,317
141 Roger Federer Switzerland 2-7 7 $0 $27,305
142 Ivan Ljubicic Croatia 31-34 40 $0 $27,242
143 Ronald Agenor Haiti 3 37-15 22 $0 $25,743
144 Juan Ignacio Chela Argentina 3 46-23 27 $0 $25,633
145 David Sanchez Spain 8-19 25 $0 $25,337
146 Andrei Chesnokov Russia 2-6 6 $9,773 $24,543
147 Christophe Rochus Belgium 1 44-36 38 $0 $23,289
148 Patrick McEnroe United States 5-8 9 $6,500 $22,095
149 Hyung-Taik Lee South Korea 8 62-16 27 $0 $21,192
150 Luis Horna Peru 5 44-22 27 $0 $18,619
151 Lars Jonsson Sweden 16-16 20 $0 $15,537
152 James Blake United States 8-9 12 $0 $13,985
153 Bjorn Phau Germany 13-21 24 $0 $11,862
154 Paradorn Srichaphan Thailand 1 34-23 27 $0 $11,610
155 Juan Carlos Ferrero Spain 2 29-12 15 $0 $10,519
156 Omar Camporese Italy 1 26-24 26 $0 $9,779
157 Scott Davis United States 6-8 8 $1,822 $9,467
158 Igor Kunitsyn Russia 1 25-21 22 $0 $7,940
159 Chris Woodruff United States 0-1 1 $0 $7,690
160 Ivo Karlovic Croatia 1 21-14 15 $0 $6,429
161 Feliciano Lopez Spain 12-12 13 $0 $5,542
162 Tommy Robredo Spain 1 18-8 10 $0 $4,777
163 Fernando Gonzalez Chile 2 20-9 12 $0 $4,615
164 Olivier Rochus Belgium 2 16-6 8 $0 $4,045
165 Jimmy Arias United States 1-1 1 $0 $3,800
166 Michael Llodra France 2 23-13 15 $0 $3,753
167 Guy Forget France 0-1 1 $3,286 $3,286
168 Shuzo Matsuoka Japan 0-2 2 $0 $3,000
169 Horst Skoff Austria 2-2 2 $0 $2,580
170 Mikael Pernfors Sweden 1-3 3 $0 $2,190
171 Guillermo Coria Argentina 4-5 5 $0 $2,174
172 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo Spain 5-10 10 $0 $1,769
173 Michael Berrer Germany 7-9 9 $0 $1,741
174 Emilio Sanchez Spain 1-2 2 $0 $1,670
175 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi Pakistan 9-6 6 $0 $1,552
176 David Pate United States 2-2 2 $0 $1,525
177 Paul Annacone United States 0-1 1 $0 $1,500
178 David Nalbandian Argentina 2-3 3 $0 $1,411
179 Mikhail Youzhny Russia 5-7 7 $0 $1,293
180 Filippo Volandri Italy 3-11 11 $0 $1,235
181 Albert Montanes Spain 4-6 6 $0 $956
182 Jurgen Melzer Austria 4-8 8 $0 $954
183 Johan Kriek United States 0-1 1 $0 $750
184 Potito Starace Italy 3-4 4 $0 $700
185 Jarkko Nieminen Finland 2-6 6 $0 $524
186 Goran Prpic Croatia 1 4-1 2 $0 $432
187 Brad Gilbert United States 1-1 1 $0 $315
188 Guillermo Perez-Roldan Argentina 1-1 1 $0 $200
189 Christo Van Rensburg South Africa 0-1 1 $0 $185
190 Dmitry Tursunov Russia 1-2 2 $0 $150
191 Julien Benneteau France 0-1 1 $0 $117
192 Philipp Kohlschreiber Germany 0-1 1 $0 $90
193 Mardy Fish United States 1-1 1 $0 $49

Where 1998 sits

Every season the tour has paid, in order

55 seasons

1998 is the 21th biggest season of the 55 on the chart.

Which countries won the 1998 money

The fifteen biggest flags on the 1998 list

42 countries paid

# Country Players Titles Share Prize money
01 United States 28 29 15.0% $10,941,808$10.9m
02 Spain 22 28 14.5% $10,529,933$10.5m
03 Australia 11 36 10.2% $7,454,377$7.5m
04 Sweden 10 15 6.8% $4,935,903$4.9m
05 Netherlands 6 27 5.4% $3,936,021$3.9m
06 Czechia 7 20 5.1% $3,716,778$3.7m
07 France 14 15 5.0% $3,651,993$3.7m
08 Chile 3 13 4.8% $3,460,753$3.5m
09 Great Britain 2 4 4.5% $3,309,207$3.3m
10 Russia 8 9 4.1% $2,968,966$3.0m
11 Germany 12 9 4.0% $2,947,623$2.9m
12 Slovakia 2 4 2.5% $1,791,703$1.8m
13 Croatia 4 3 2.2% $1,575,280$1.6m
14 Italy 9 10 1.7% $1,206,759
15 Brazil 2 6 1.4% $1,042,615

42 countries had a player paid in 1998, and the top three of them took 39.7% of the money between them. A flag gets a link here where we hold two or more careers behind it.

Frequently asked questions

Who won the most prize money in tennis in 1998?

Pete Sampras, $3,931,497 from 26 events, with 4 titles and a 71-21 record.

How much prize money did tennis pay out in 1998?

$72,813,730 across the 193 players on this list, the 21th biggest season of the 55 the list covers. The season is up 0.8% on 1997, and is the 21th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

How many tennis players earned a million dollars in 1998?

17 of them. The top ten took 34.6% of everything paid out that season.

What share of 1998 prize money came from the grand slams?

20.1%. The four majors paid $14,630,022 of the $72,813,730 won that season.

Which country won the most tennis prize money in 1998?

United States, $10,941,808 across 28 players on the list.

Is this prize money or total earnings?

Prize money: what the tour and the majors paid for results on court in 1998. Endorsements, appearance fees and exhibition money are a separate business and are not in these figures.

Where to next

The seasons either side, the eras, and the players who made 1998

The 1997 money list · The 1999 money list

Every season

By era

The 1998 top sixty

Elsewhere in tennis