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TENNIS · 198 PLAYERS PAID

The 2000 tennis prize money list

$67,842,071 won on court in 2000, split between 198 players. Gustavo Kuerten took $4,701,610 of it.

Every player the tour paid in 2000, 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 down 0.4% on 1999, and is the 27th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

PAID OUT $67.8m
TOP EARNER $4.7m
PLAYERS PAID 198
OVER $1M 13
FROM THE MAJORS 22.2%

The twenty biggest earners of 2000

Prize money won in the 2000 season

Top ten hold 36.5%

Gustavo Kuerten $4.7m Yevgeny Kafelnikov $3.8m Marat Safin $3.5m Thomas Enqvist $2.4m Pete Sampras $2.3m Andre Agassi $1.9m Magnus Norman $1.8m Lleyton Hewitt $1.6m Alex Corretja $1.5m Wayne Ferreira $1.2m Dominik Hrbaty $1.2m Nicolas Lapentti $1.1m Tim Henman $1.1m Cedric Pioline $889k Mark Philippoussis $840k Patrick Rafter $815k Juan Carlos Ferrero $813k Jiri Novak $777k Max Mirnyi $760k Franco Squillari $754k

Ten players out of 198 took 36.5% 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

2000 against 1999, for the ten biggest earners of 2000

1999 to 2000

# Player 1999 2000 Change
01 Gustavo Kuerten Brazil $1,762,269 $4,701,610 +166.8%
02 Yevgeny Kafelnikov Russia $2,360,498 $3,755,599 +59.1%
03 Marat Safin Russia $678,609 $3,524,959 +419.4%
04 Thomas Enqvist Sweden $1,729,056 $2,381,060 +37.7%
05 Pete Sampras United States $2,816,406 $2,254,598 -19.9%
06 Andre Agassi United States $4,269,265 $1,884,443 -55.9%
07 Magnus Norman Sweden $609,035 $1,846,269 +203.1%
08 Lleyton Hewitt Australia $411,771 $1,642,572 +298.9%
09 Alex Corretja Spain $1,072,288 $1,530,062 +42.7%
10 Wayne Ferreira South Africa $503,542 $1,237,864 +145.8%

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 1999 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 2000

Ranked by prize money won that season

198 players

# Player Titles W-L Events From majors Prize money
001 Gustavo Kuerten Brazil 6 81-34 42 $641,070 $4,701,610$4.7m
002 Yevgeny Kafelnikov Russia 4 116-52 56 $449,039 $3,755,599$3.8m
003 Marat Safin Russia 7 94-42 51 $905,599 $3,524,959$3.5m
004 Thomas Enqvist Sweden 2 61-29 33 $137,135 $2,381,060$2.4m
005 Pete Sampras United States 2 44-14 15 $1,276,998 $2,254,598$2.3m
006 Andre Agassi United States 1 49-17 21 $715,393 $1,884,443$1.9m
007 Magnus Norman Sweden 5 79-35 40 $493,569 $1,846,269$1.8m
008 Lleyton Hewitt Australia 6 94-29 38 $488,532 $1,642,572$1.6m
009 Alex Corretja Spain 5 73-26 38 $125,005 $1,530,062$1.5m
010 Wayne Ferreira South Africa 2 79-41 45 $202,084 $1,237,864
011 Dominik Hrbaty Slovakia 3 88-54 57 $122,277 $1,195,760
012 Nicolas Lapentti Ecuador 64-41 46 $87,850 $1,126,305
013 Tim Henman Great Britain 2 70-31 35 $143,678 $1,057,823
014 Cedric Pioline France 2 36-24 27 $102,119 $888,789
015 Mark Philippoussis Australia 1 49-23 25 $189,387 $839,567
016 Patrick Rafter Australia 1 47-28 32 $387,886 $814,586
017 Juan Carlos Ferrero Spain 50-26 30 $222,331 $812,636
018 Jiri Novak Czechia 4 79-46 54 $110,068 $776,933
019 Max Mirnyi Belarus 3 78-50 57 $264,563 $760,368
020 Franco Squillari Argentina 2 40-25 29 $198,093 $754,458
021 Arnaud Clement France 2 47-38 44 $179,465 $671,815
022 Todd Woodbridge Australia 10 76-18 30 $331,219 $662,871
023 Sebastien Grosjean France 2 53-36 40 $92,515 $655,280
024 Fabrice Santoro France 2 55-48 51 $78,901 $652,131
025 Mark Woodforde Australia 8 66-20 31 $324,395 $649,410
026 David Prinosil Germany 3 52-34 42 $88,593 $625,811
027 Roger Federer Switzerland 62-50 54 $139,472 $623,782
028 Sjeng Schalken Netherlands 2 45-34 38 $84,788 $596,918
029 Nicolas Kiefer Germany 2 38-26 29 $193,619 $591,749
030 Marc Rosset Switzerland 2 38-33 36 $109,986 $583,636
031 Sandon Stolle Australia 3 72-27 32 $163,942 $559,942
032 Albert Costa Spain 39-29 32 $105,772 $557,589
033 Jan-Michael Gambill United States 1 66-51 52 $171,773 $553,778
034 Andrei Pavel Romania 1 39-34 40 $92,836 $550,061
035 Jonas Bjorkman Sweden 1 65-48 51 $122,165 $541,965
036 Mariano Puerta Argentina 2 52-30 35 $44,143 $529,893
037 Byron Black Zimbabwe 1 54-45 48 $153,374 $516,347
038 Thomas Johansson Sweden 1 28-32 35 $186,820 $497,170
039 Michael Chang United States 1 45-26 28 $69,488 $494,488
040 Marcelo Rios Chile 1 37-30 31 $43,781 $493,816
041 Younes El Aynaoui Morocco 42-28 29 $144,945 $491,615
042 Hicham Arazi Morocco 36-32 34 $152,314 $491,221
043 Karol Kucera Slovakia 1 32-29 30 $59,488 $487,608
044 Gaston Gaudio Argentina 1 32-26 28 $43,116 $484,576
045 Jerome Golmard France 1 44-31 34 $80,555 $483,495
046 Tommy Haas Germany 43-27 29 $85,190 $437,436
047 Alex O'Brien United States 2 49-30 40 $118,768 $437,063
048 Rainer Schuettler Germany 1 41-43 44 $84,788 $435,201
049 Paul Haarhuis Netherlands 2 52-17 20 $156,638 $434,668
050 Carlos Moya Spain 1 35-23 25 $74,543 $422,106
051 Fernando Vicente Spain 1 30-36 38 $82,164 $419,729
052 Richard Krajicek Netherlands 28-15 17 $163,721 $410,641
053 Karim Alami Morocco 31-33 34 $59,131 $407,346
054 Mikael Tillstrom Sweden 3 56-35 41 $106,557 $404,467
055 Martin Damm Czechia 4 56-36 42 $88,556 $400,811
056 Francisco Clavet Spain 30-30 32 $61,809 $400,202
057 Nicolas Escude France 37-31 35 $63,611 $393,359
058 Todd Martin United States 16-16 17 $258,319 $378,849
059 Daniel Nestor Canada 4 52-20 29 $95,107 $374,904
060 Stefan Koubek Austria 1 28-32 33 $71,809 $359,379
061 Wayne Arthurs Australia 2 59-42 50 $109,174 $341,729
062 Andrew Ilie Australia 2 29-33 35 $57,226 $336,021
063 Jeff Tarango United States 2 47-55 59 $66,225 $333,855
064 Albert Portas Spain 5 55-42 48 $90,228 $331,173
065 Sebastien Lareau Canada 4 60-37 46 $95,067 $325,199
066 Nicklas Kulti Sweden 4 37-20 31 $72,781 $324,218
067 Gianluca Pozzi Italy 41-31 33 $90,966 $320,931
068 Greg Rusedski Great Britain 24-24 24 $39,543 $320,358
069 Alberto Martin Spain 3 47-49 54 $59,725 $317,170
070 Chris Woodruff United States 30-38 38 $111,119 $311,129
071 Mariano Zabaleta Argentina 21-30 30 $44,985 $302,875
072 Felix Mantilla Spain 17-17 18 $27,262 $294,662
073 Juan Ignacio Chela Argentina 1 24-25 26 $35,397 $278,622
074 Andrei Medvedev Ukraine 25-19 22 $60,295 $272,385
075 Slava Dosedel Czechia 21-28 27 $86,483 $260,538
076 Paul Goldstein United States 1 45-47 48 $79,798 $258,563
077 Justin Gimelstob United States 2 41-31 33 $76,007 $251,092
078 Richard Fromberg Australia 24-26 27 $74,131 $247,876
079 Sargis Sargsian Armenia 21-29 32 $52,664 $238,289
080 Goran Ivanisevic Croatia 26-38 46 $48,126 $234,736
081 Davide Sanguinetti Italy 2 39-38 43 $37,262 $233,362
082 Ivan Ljubicic Croatia 37-32 40 $37,262 $228,057
083 Christophe Rochus Belgium 2 31-31 40 $70,629 $217,184
084 Andrea Gaudenzi Italy 2 48-41 49 $50,616 $215,886
085 Magnus Larsson Sweden 2 23-8 10 $0 $210,290
086 Nicolas Massu Chile 38-39 41 $35,397 $209,422
087 Fernando Meligeni Brazil 1 30-34 35 $45,357 $208,557
088 Magnus Gustafsson Sweden 1 18-16 19 $47,836 $201,781
089 Jan Siemerink Netherlands 5 50-40 48 $45,863 $194,790
090 Bohdan Ulihrach Czechia 1 28-24 28 $35,397 $187,707
091 Jason Stoltenberg Australia 25-17 17 $62,664 $185,314
092 Galo Blanco Spain 19-30 31 $47,262 $183,632
093 Juan Antonio Marin Costa Rica 23-32 36 $37,262 $176,422
094 Diego Nargiso Italy 3 55-32 41 $13,398 $171,905
095 Vincent Spadea United States 11-36 34 $44,086 $171,776
096 Adrian Voinea Romania 13-22 26 $59,131 $164,581
097 Agustin Calleri Argentina 2 46-25 28 $59,183 $157,693
098 Christian Ruud Norway 11-20 21 $29,543 $153,413
099 Hernan Gumy Argentina 20-27 29 $53,116 $152,896
100 Sergi Bruguera Spain 1 27-21 22 $8,781 $152,761
101 Leander Paes India 4 41-24 32 $21,925 $149,367
102 Michael Llodra France 4 43-33 41 $51,717 $146,617
103 Olivier Rochus Belgium 5 65-31 39 $39,055 $146,281
104 Daniel Vacek Czechia 12-26 26 $14,193 $142,623
105 Alberto Berasategui Spain 24-38 39 $29,503 $141,458
106 Tomas Carbonell Spain 2 31-30 33 $38,387 $138,027
107 Paradorn Srichaphan Thailand 27-28 31 $41,495 $135,075
108 Marc-Kevin Goellner Germany 23-33 41 $13,398 $134,173
109 Ronald Agenor Haiti 1 31-40 45 $33,116 $129,966
110 Antony Dupuis France 2 36-25 31 $20,733 $124,780
111 Hyung-Taik Lee South Korea 5 72-33 42 $55,000 $120,506
112 Raemon Sluiter Netherlands 35-25 30 $11,952 $117,671
113 Lars Burgsmuller Germany 31-44 51 $14,750 $112,223
114 Guillermo Coria Argentina 6 57-21 28 $14,635 $107,540
115 Mikhail Youzhny Russia 2 41-31 36 $0 $104,802
116 Fernando Gonzalez Chile 1 20-27 32 $20,000 $103,343
117 Guillermo Canas Argentina 1 10-23 24 $29,503 $98,878
118 Marcos Ondruska South Africa 3 46-40 50 $15,038 $92,198
119 Taylor Dent United States 2 28-21 27 $28,262 $91,397
120 Xavier Malisse Belgium 1 23-16 21 $20,000 $86,568
121 David Sanchez Spain 2 37-19 22 $10,000 $84,778
122 Andy Roddick United States 2 27-15 17 $17,500 $79,930
123 James Blake United States 2 42-45 52 $10,822 $75,303
124 Michael Russell United States 2 43-45 50 $20,762 $72,974
125 Jonathan Stark United States 1 19-26 31 $11,054 $68,065
126 Andrei Olhovskiy Russia 13-21 21 $14,400 $67,515
127 Bjorn Phau Germany 13-18 24 $8,781 $63,610
128 Andrei Cherkasov Russia 22-30 36 $0 $63,342
129 Grant Stafford South Africa 16-19 20 $41,758 $60,833
130 Tommy Robredo Spain 3 36-22 30 $0 $56,944
131 Olivier Delaitre France 12-15 16 $15,662 $56,452
132 Jim Courier United States 6-8 8 $7,719 $54,169
133 Renzo Furlan Italy 13-21 26 $0 $46,573
134 Mardy Fish United States 2 23-22 25 $10,000 $46,365
135 Luis Horna Peru 1 45-29 33 $0 $45,868
136 Scott Draper Australia 7-13 17 $11,703 $45,323
137 Filip Dewulf Belgium 2 27-18 21 $0 $43,834
138 Nikolay Davydenko Russia 2 39-24 28 $0 $42,518
139 Richey Reneberg United States 2 14-11 13 $0 $40,350
140 Jose Acasuso Argentina 1 40-28 31 $0 $38,083
141 Filippo Volandri Italy 1 31-30 33 $0 $36,012
142 Nicolas Mahut France 2 29-30 34 $13,171 $33,672
143 David Nalbandian Argentina 23-24 26 $0 $31,195
144 Paul-Henri Mathieu France 15-17 25 $0 $30,669
145 Albert Montanes Spain 3 35-19 23 $0 $30,147
146 Radek Stepanek Czechia 1 30-30 36 $0 $29,661
147 David Wheaton United States 7-9 10 $0 $28,636
148 Ramon Delgado Paraguay 8-6 7 $0 $27,812
149 Guillaume Raoux France 3-4 5 $13,171 $27,323
150 Julien Benneteau France 2 46-47 53 $4,390 $26,951
151 Feliciano Lopez Spain 15-19 20 $0 $26,662
152 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi Pakistan 5 70-40 48 $0 $25,930
153 Javier Sanchez Spain 4-8 8 $0 $23,605
154 Jarkko Nieminen Finland 3 54-27 32 $0 $23,514
155 Ivo Karlovic Croatia 4 49-26 37 $0 $23,235
156 Stefano Pescosolido Italy 20-14 18 $5,666 $23,224
157 Jurgen Melzer Austria 10-18 17 $10,762 $22,640
158 Igor Kunitsyn Russia 29-35 39 $0 $18,760
159 Jim Grabb United States 1 8-6 7 $0 $18,010
160 Bernd Karbacher Germany 0-4 5 $7,719 $16,554
161 Dmitry Tursunov Russia 4 42-26 30 $0 $13,239
162 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo Spain 1 45-26 29 $0 $12,037
163 Marcelo Filippini Uruguay 0-6 7 $0 $9,565
164 Robby Ginepri United States 2-5 6 $4,750 $8,890
165 David Ferrer Spain 3 27-14 17 $0 $6,020
166 Jordi Burillo Spain 1-12 13 $0 $5,597
167 Mario Ancic Croatia 2 24-12 17 $0 $5,259
168 Florent Serra France 19-21 22 $0 $4,844
169 Gilbert Schaller Austria 1 15-9 10 $0 $4,760
170 Omar Camporese Italy 1 20-27 28 $0 $4,586
171 Guy Forget France 1-1 1 $4,390 $4,390
172 Lukasz Kubot Poland 13-11 11 $0 $3,783
173 Michael Berrer Germany 9-18 19 $0 $3,561
174 Bruno Soares Brazil 1 11-12 13 $0 $3,451
175 Carlos Berlocq Argentina 16-24 24 $0 $2,438
176 Victor Hanescu Romania 15-14 14 $0 $2,367
177 Rohan Bopanna India 12-21 21 $0 $2,279
178 Kristof Vliegen Belgium 6-7 7 $0 $2,125
179 Benjamin Becker Germany 7-8 8 $0 $1,958
180 Potito Starace Italy 13-12 12 $0 $1,846
181 Andrei Chesnokov Russia 4-1 1 $0 $1,350
182 Jean-Julien Rojer Netherlands 1 9-8 9 $0 $1,169
183 Paolo Lorenzi Italy 2-6 6 $0 $921
184 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez Spain 1-4 4 $0 $899
185 Robin Soderling Sweden 0-2 3 $0 $749
186 Alejandro Falla Colombia 4-4 4 $0 $723
187 Marcelo Melo Brazil 2-7 7 $0 $721
188 Gilles Muller Luxembourg 8-4 7 $0 $680
189 Maximo Gonzalez Argentina 4-6 6 $0 $587
190 Petr Korda Czechia 1-2 2 $0 $420
191 Marc Gicquel France 1-3 3 $0 $417
192 Yen-Hsun Lu Chinese Taipei 0-2 2 $0 $352
193 Philipp Kohlschreiber Germany 0-2 2 $0 $350
194 Marcos Baghdatis Cyprus 2-2 2 $0 $290
195 Fernando Verdasco Spain 1-3 3 $0 $200
196 Nicolas Almagro Spain 1-1 1 $0 $200
197 Rajeev Ram United States 0-1 1 $0 $185
198 Andreas Seppi Italy 0-1 1 $0 $90

Where 2000 sits

Every season the tour has paid, in order

55 seasons

2000 is the 27th biggest season of the 55 on the chart.

Which countries won the 2000 money

The fifteen biggest flags on the 2000 list

44 countries paid

# Country Players Titles Share Prize money
01 United States 23 26 11.7% $7,913,908$7.9m
02 Russia 9 19 11.2% $7,592,084$7.6m
03 Sweden 9 19 9.4% $6,407,969$6.4m
04 Australia 11 33 9.3% $6,325,211$6.3m
05 Spain 24 30 8.8% $5,948,296$5.9m
06 Brazil 4 8 7.2% $4,914,339$4.9m
07 France 16 19 6.2% $4,200,984$4.2m
08 Argentina 13 16 4.3% $2,939,734$2.9m
09 Germany 11 6 3.6% $2,422,626$2.4m
10 Czechia 7 10 2.7% $1,798,693$1.8m
11 Netherlands 6 10 2.6% $1,755,857$1.8m
12 Slovakia 2 4 2.5% $1,683,368$1.7m
13 South Africa 3 5 2.1% $1,390,895$1.4m
14 Morocco 3 2.0% $1,390,182$1.4m
15 Great Britain 2 2 2.0% $1,378,181$1.4m

44 countries had a player paid in 2000, and the top three of them took 32.3% 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 2000?

Gustavo Kuerten, $4,701,610 from 42 events, with 6 titles and a 81-34 record.

How much prize money did tennis pay out in 2000?

$67,842,071 across the 198 players on this list, the 27th biggest season of the 55 the list covers. The season is down 0.4% on 1999, and is the 27th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

How many tennis players earned a million dollars in 2000?

13 of them. The top ten took 36.5% of everything paid out that season.

What share of 2000 prize money came from the grand slams?

22.2%. The four majors paid $15,044,941 of the $67,842,071 won that season.

Which country won the most tennis prize money in 2000?

United States, $7,913,908 across 23 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 2000. 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 2000

The 1999 money list · The 2001 money list

Every season

By era

The 2000 top sixty

Elsewhere in tennis