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TENNIS · 208 PLAYERS PAID

The 2001 tennis prize money list

$66,387,530 won on court in 2001, split between 208 players. Gustavo Kuerten took $4,091,004 of it.

Every player the tour paid in 2001, 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 2.1% on 2000, and is the 30th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

PAID OUT $66.4m
TOP EARNER $4.1m
PLAYERS PAID 208
OVER $1M 11
FROM THE MAJORS 21.4%

The twenty biggest earners of 2001

Prize money won in the 2001 season

Top ten hold 36.9%

Gustavo Kuerten $4.1m Lleyton Hewitt $4.0m Yevgeny Kafelnikov $3.2m Andre Agassi $2.3m Marat Safin $2.2m Juan Carlos Ferrero $2.2m Sebastien Grosjean $1.9m Patrick Rafter $1.7m Tommy Haas $1.5m Goran Ivanisevic $1.2m Tim Henman $1.1m Pete Sampras $994k Max Mirnyi $914k Alex Corretja $898k Roger Federer $865k Jiri Novak $849k Arnaud Clement $849k Albert Portas $842k Jonas Bjorkman $813k Sjeng Schalken $812k

Ten players out of 208 took 36.9% 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

2001 against 2000, for the ten biggest earners of 2001

2000 to 2001

# Player 2000 2001 Change
01 Gustavo Kuerten Brazil $4,701,610 $4,091,004 -13.0%
02 Lleyton Hewitt Australia $1,642,572 $4,045,618 +146.3%
03 Yevgeny Kafelnikov Russia $3,755,599 $3,238,889 -13.8%
04 Andre Agassi United States $1,884,443 $2,341,766 +24.3%
05 Marat Safin Russia $3,524,959 $2,207,702 -37.4%
06 Juan Carlos Ferrero Spain $812,636 $2,179,671 +168.2%
07 Sebastien Grosjean France $655,280 $1,918,584 +192.8%
08 Patrick Rafter Australia $814,586 $1,670,592 +105.1%
09 Tommy Haas Germany $437,436 $1,544,640 +253.1%
10 Goran Ivanisevic Croatia $234,736 $1,245,040 +430.4%

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 2000 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 2001

Ranked by prize money won that season

208 players

# Player Titles W-L Events From majors Prize money
001 Gustavo Kuerten Brazil 7 72-23 30 $722,719 $4,091,004$4.1m
002 Lleyton Hewitt Australia 7 98-25 36 $996,138 $4,045,618$4.0m
003 Yevgeny Kafelnikov Russia 6 105-47 54 $408,264 $3,238,889$3.2m
004 Andre Agassi United States 4 52-17 21 $833,056 $2,341,766$2.3m
005 Marat Safin Russia 3 66-42 44 $385,692 $2,207,702$2.2m
006 Juan Carlos Ferrero Spain 4 62-24 30 $223,291 $2,179,671$2.2m
007 Sebastien Grosjean France 1 65-35 36 $310,374 $1,918,584$1.9m
008 Patrick Rafter Australia 1 62-24 28 $533,822 $1,670,592$1.7m
009 Tommy Haas Germany 4 74-33 40 $92,370 $1,544,640$1.5m
010 Goran Ivanisevic Croatia 1 40-31 37 $741,205 $1,245,040
011 Tim Henman Great Britain 2 59-23 30 $267,559 $1,118,699
012 Pete Sampras United States 39-16 18 $520,811 $994,331
013 Max Mirnyi Belarus 2 73-48 53 $165,699 $913,769
014 Alex Corretja Spain 2 54-30 36 $332,307 $897,819
015 Roger Federer Switzerland 3 69-31 38 $256,820 $865,425
016 Jiri Novak Czechia 4 78-41 49 $168,073 $849,093
017 Arnaud Clement France 64-47 48 $390,079 $848,999
018 Albert Portas Spain 1 48-50 52 $77,144 $841,804
019 Jonas Bjorkman Sweden 4 75-42 49 $195,981 $813,476
020 Sjeng Schalken Netherlands 4 76-48 56 $153,580 $812,380
021 Andrei Pavel Romania 1 38-35 38 $50,474 $800,714
022 Andy Roddick United States 6 67-29 39 $173,894 $766,504
023 Jan-Michael Gambill United States 2 59-45 46 $56,166 $765,976
024 Thomas Johansson Sweden 2 52-32 36 $102,302 $742,792
025 Nicolas Lapentti Ecuador 1 55-42 44 $81,347 $739,107
026 Thomas Enqvist Sweden 41-28 29 $144,368 $686,363
027 Fabrice Santoro France 1 55-44 50 $117,961 $684,551
028 Nicolas Escude France 1 42-34 39 $171,369 $663,479
029 Hicham Arazi Morocco 33-33 35 $88,108 $655,818
030 Guillermo Canas Argentina 2 62-31 38 $122,531 $636,341
031 Dominik Hrbaty Slovakia 2 61-59 65 $119,988 $635,003
032 Wayne Ferreira South Africa 2 41-34 39 $75,145 $629,625
033 Carlos Moya Spain 1 42-30 32 $138,162 $597,862
034 Nicolas Kiefer Germany 34-44 44 $82,452 $597,507
035 Magnus Norman Sweden 31-28 27 $40,481 $563,743
036 Todd Woodbridge Australia 3 64-25 36 $155,837 $526,480
037 Albert Costa Spain 31-28 29 $64,845 $518,805
038 Bohdan Ulihrach Czechia 1 42-27 30 $56,501 $504,871
039 Franco Squillari Argentina 34-33 35 $63,690 $497,140
040 Alberto Martin Spain 1 42-40 43 $57,697 $484,672
041 Marcelo Rios Chile 3 42-25 30 $56,870 $474,358
042 Rainer Schuettler Germany 2 44-44 47 $77,783 $474,098
043 David Prinosil Germany 1 41-46 50 $138,752 $473,662
044 Wayne Arthurs Australia 1 54-48 53 $124,616 $468,741
045 Ivan Ljubicic Croatia 1 42-32 40 $50,245 $465,395
046 Greg Rusedski Great Britain 1 42-24 30 $130,811 $459,201
047 Younes El Aynaoui Morocco 1 37-26 29 $60,971 $412,261
048 Tommy Robredo Spain 1 53-33 39 $122,492 $411,982
049 Sandon Stolle Australia 5 52-20 27 $70,297 $399,872
050 Leander Paes India 4 53-24 33 $135,242 $396,457
051 Gaston Gaudio Argentina 30-24 29 $37,067 $392,107
052 Xavier Malisse Belgium 38-23 27 $97,674 $380,894
053 Daniel Nestor Canada 4 46-22 34 $71,935 $374,660
054 Fernando Vicente Spain 2 37-35 40 $46,567 $374,412
055 Francisco Clavet Spain 1 27-29 33 $40,974 $363,804
056 Felix Mantilla Spain 3 39-22 31 $53,276 $321,096
057 Jerome Golmard France 30-24 25 $31,482 $313,522
058 Jeff Tarango United States 1 55-38 45 $55,691 $313,099
059 Galo Blanco Spain 23-27 30 $70,283 $307,298
060 Cedric Pioline France 23-28 32 $60,629 $305,334
061 Guillermo Coria Argentina 1 32-18 20 $19,881 $290,196
062 Andrea Gaudenzi Italy 4 35-34 44 $33,948 $288,833
063 Stefan Koubek Austria 24-28 32 $40,974 $285,144
064 Davide Sanguinetti Italy 17-35 36 $53,276 $271,806
065 Marc Rosset Switzerland 1 23-38 42 $60,670 $271,495
066 Mariano Zabaleta Argentina 24-25 29 $145,474 $268,094
067 Andrew Ilie Australia 21-34 34 $73,143 $267,573
068 Mikhail Youzhny Russia 25-29 33 $111,365 $258,285
069 Michael Chang United States 19-22 24 $49,672 $253,562
070 Byron Black Zimbabwe 2 36-28 32 $94,825 $247,508
071 Nicolas Massu Chile 24-35 41 $64,575 $245,150
072 Todd Martin United States 15-15 16 $137,443 $231,153
073 Michael Llodra France 5 61-40 54 $50,157 $222,482
074 Lars Burgsmuller Germany 18-36 44 $65,620 $219,185
075 Christophe Rochus Belgium 1 26-29 34 $57,524 $216,699
076 Magnus Gustafsson Sweden 21-21 23 $29,938 $208,848
077 Martin Damm Czechia 2 29-26 30 $47,109 $207,879
078 Mark Philippoussis Australia 1 12-9 11 $0 $207,640
079 Gianluca Pozzi Italy 1 20-32 36 $40,974 $204,884
080 Antony Dupuis France 17-25 34 $52,174 $204,409
081 David Sanchez Spain 1 35-28 32 $52,594 $197,034
082 David Nalbandian Argentina 3 54-26 31 $35,000 $196,873
083 Agustin Calleri Argentina 4 51-27 37 $46,870 $196,645
084 Fernando Meligeni Brazil 30-29 31 $61,674 $196,244
085 Sargis Sargsian Armenia 33-29 38 $54,378 $195,393
086 Jan Siemerink Netherlands 32-40 44 $65,509 $192,154
087 James Blake United States 2 48-32 45 $30,784 $191,571
088 Sergi Bruguera Spain 16-23 23 $42,963 $189,713
089 Chris Woodruff United States 1 24-34 36 $71,052 $178,557
090 Juan Ignacio Chela Argentina 6 50-18 26 $18,086 $173,241
091 Michael Russell United States 2 38-33 40 $64,440 $173,048
092 Jose Acasuso Argentina 1 37-29 30 $35,834 $162,649
093 Hyung-Taik Lee South Korea 1 31-34 40 $28,222 $158,887
094 Olivier Rochus Belgium 1 21-29 32 $59,303 $157,578
095 Nikolay Davydenko Russia 2 33-26 35 $36,277 $156,937
096 Karol Kucera Slovakia 1 22-19 23 $7,129 $155,014
097 Justin Gimelstob United States 1 38-46 53 $55,789 $154,804
098 Taylor Dent United States 1 24-22 27 $42,052 $146,602
099 Andrei Medvedev Ukraine 11-18 19 $30,474 $141,424
100 Mariano Puerta Argentina 11-22 27 $25,334 $138,337
101 Paradorn Srichaphan Thailand 1 27-31 41 $28,222 $136,898
102 Albert Montanes Spain 1 43-28 29 $24,372 $135,597
103 Jarkko Nieminen Finland 5 60-22 31 $0 $133,976
104 Adrian Voinea Romania 1 23-20 30 $7,129 $129,692
105 Raemon Sluiter Netherlands 1 24-28 31 $55,075 $127,370
106 Radek Stepanek Czechia 6 49-27 38 $11,899 $124,369
107 Magnus Larsson Sweden 10-13 16 $63,473 $123,253
108 Karim Alami Morocco 8-30 31 $42,001 $122,786
109 Sebastien Lareau Canada 16-22 28 $17,528 $117,344
110 Paul Goldstein United States 4 43-35 44 $29,337 $117,327
111 Slava Dosedel Czechia 1 12-18 21 $47,683 $116,533
112 Mardy Fish United States 4 66-39 48 $32,343 $115,493
113 Marc-Kevin Goellner Germany 35-36 48 $21,811 $114,708
114 Ramon Delgado Paraguay 2 42-24 33 $35,000 $112,532
115 Paul Haarhuis Netherlands 3 24-8 13 $45,000 $111,065
116 Daniel Vacek Czechia 18-27 31 $25,843 $105,050
117 Andrei Olhovskiy Russia 25-26 26 $14,194 $99,614
118 Tomas Carbonell Spain 3 22-18 21 $14,194 $92,529
119 Alex O'Brien United States 16-22 28 $24,544 $90,713
120 Fernando Gonzalez Chile 26-32 40 $21,870 $86,366
121 Kenneth Carlsen Denmark 13-9 9 $27,802 $81,497
122 Scott Draper Australia 2 17-15 20 $30,245 $80,240
123 Juan Antonio Marin Costa Rica 1 22-26 31 $8,845 $77,895
124 Jason Stoltenberg Australia 9-8 8 $28,109 $77,219
125 Feliciano Lopez Spain 1 35-38 43 $8,845 $75,916
126 Jonathan Stark United States 1 17-20 22 $19,394 $71,019
127 Robby Ginepri United States 1 32-35 38 $27,500 $69,789
128 Paul-Henri Mathieu France 3 39-20 35 $11,482 $64,452
129 Luis Horna Peru 1 44-41 47 $0 $63,953
130 Marcos Ondruska South Africa 20-25 32 $31,326 $59,194
131 Nicolas Mahut France 4 53-38 45 $18,611 $58,453
132 Bjorn Phau Germany 1 16-17 22 $20,000 $58,101
133 Grant Stafford South Africa 1 17-18 19 $15,490 $57,045
134 Vincent Spadea United States 1 40-27 34 $0 $56,993
135 Ronald Agenor Haiti 25-24 32 $0 $52,848
136 Ivo Karlovic Croatia 3 60-36 45 $0 $52,052
137 Richard Fromberg Australia 4-11 18 $7,129 $51,618
138 Dmitry Tursunov Russia 2 32-22 28 $0 $47,002
139 Filippo Volandri Italy 27-28 35 $0 $41,811
140 Nicklas Kulti Sweden 7-6 6 $17,338 $38,013
141 Christian Ruud Norway 3-6 7 $8,845 $35,850
142 Renzo Furlan Italy 1 24-19 29 $0 $33,323
143 Julien Benneteau France 2 38-30 36 $2,637 $31,903
144 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi Pakistan 4 60-36 47 $0 $31,599
145 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo Spain 3 60-33 37 $0 $31,351
146 Jurgen Melzer Austria 1 28-18 22 $0 $25,291
147 Mario Ancic Croatia 45-37 39 $0 $20,871
148 David Wheaton United States 9-10 16 $0 $20,736
149 Stefano Pescosolido Italy 2 29-21 28 $0 $19,714
150 Victor Hanescu Romania 5 54-27 32 $0 $19,638
151 David Ferrer Spain 1 29-26 27 $0 $18,560
152 Robin Soderling Sweden 1 13-7 9 $0 $18,127
153 Lukasz Kubot Poland 25-25 26 $0 $15,428
154 Hernan Gumy Argentina 2-5 6 $0 $14,108
155 Andrei Cherkasov Russia 1 12-18 26 $0 $13,638
156 Florent Serra France 1 35-25 28 $0 $11,867
157 Igor Kunitsyn Russia 2 28-33 40 $0 $11,092
158 Rajeev Ram United States 1-7 9 $4,750 $9,770
159 Raven Klaasen South Africa 1 42-27 28 $0 $6,572
160 Potito Starace Italy 1 33-24 25 $0 $6,514
161 Yen-Hsun Lu Chinese Taipei 2 39-22 26 $0 $6,480
162 Diego Nargiso Italy 0-4 4 $3,284 $6,404
163 Gilles Muller Luxembourg 2 28-23 27 $0 $6,398
164 Bruno Soares Brazil 3 26-28 31 $0 $6,261
165 Michael Berrer Germany 10-12 18 $0 $6,250
166 Fernando Verdasco Spain 2 25-12 14 $0 $5,512
167 Kristof Vliegen Belgium 3 34-21 24 $0 $5,368
168 Marc Gicquel France 19-16 16 $0 $4,570
169 Rohan Bopanna India 26-17 17 $0 $4,363
170 Alberto Berasategui Spain 2-5 5 $0 $4,190
171 Carlos Berlocq Argentina 1 26-14 15 $0 $3,920
172 Janko Tipsarevic Serbia 1 13-6 10 $0 $3,740
173 Philipp Kohlschreiber Germany 5-9 10 $0 $3,577
174 Maximo Gonzalez Argentina 13-20 20 $0 $2,963
175 Marcelo Melo Brazil 4-15 16 $0 $2,924
176 Juan Monaco Argentina 16-15 15 $0 $2,866
177 Paolo Lorenzi Italy 8-13 13 $0 $1,770
178 Nicolas Almagro Spain 7-5 5 $0 $1,643
179 Boris Becker Germany 0-1 1 $0 $1,500
180 Richard Krajicek Netherlands 0-1 2 $0 $1,500
181 Alejandro Falla Colombia 1 6-5 8 $0 $1,482
182 Andreas Seppi Italy 6-9 9 $0 $1,224
183 Omar Camporese Italy 2-6 6 $0 $1,193
184 Teymuraz Gabashvili Russia 5-3 3 $0 $1,170
185 Florian Mayer Germany 1-4 4 $0 $996
186 Filip Dewulf Belgium 1-3 4 $0 $910
187 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga France 3-2 2 $0 $896
188 Richard Gasquet France 2-4 5 $0 $893
189 Edouard Roger-Vasselin France 1-9 9 $0 $886
190 Rafael Nadal Spain 2-3 3 $0 $857
191 Nicolas Pereira Venezuela 1 6-2 3 $0 $742
192 Gilbert Schaller Austria 3-6 6 $0 $700
193 Stan Wawrinka Switzerland 1 5-2 3 $0 $700
194 Dudi Sela Israel 1 $0 $640
195 Denis Istomin Uzbekistan 1-5 5 $0 $596
196 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez Spain 3-4 4 $0 $590
197 Igor Andreev Russia 0-4 4 $0 $528
198 Tomas Berdych Czechia 2-5 5 $0 $497
199 Paolo Cane Italy 3-2 2 $0 $495
200 Jean-Julien Rojer Netherlands 5-3 5 $0 $435
201 Marcos Baghdatis Cyprus 2-4 4 $0 $407
202 Karel Novacek Czechia 0-1 1 $0 $365
203 Petr Korda Czechia 0-1 1 $0 $365
204 Juan Sebastian Cabal Colombia 0-4 4 $0 $352
205 Jordi Burillo Spain 0-1 1 $0 $275
206 Benjamin Becker Germany 0-3 3 $0 $176
207 Sergiy Stakhovsky Ukraine 2-1 1 $0 $130
208 Daniel Gimeno-Traver Spain 0-1 1 $0 $117

Where 2001 sits

Every season the tour has paid, in order

55 seasons

2001 is the 30th biggest season of the 55 on the chart.

Which countries won the 2001 money

The fifteen biggest flags on the 2001 list

48 countries paid

# Country Players Titles Share Prize money
01 Spain 25 28 12.1% $8,053,109$8.1m
02 Australia 10 20 11.7% $7,795,593$7.8m
03 United States 20 31 10.6% $7,062,813$7.1m
04 Russia 10 16 9.1% $6,034,857$6.0m
05 France 16 18 8.0% $5,335,280$5.3m
06 Brazil 4 10 6.5% $4,296,433$4.3m
07 Germany 12 8 5.3% $3,494,400$3.5m
08 Sweden 8 7 4.8% $3,194,615$3.2m
09 Argentina 14 18 4.5% $2,975,480$3.0m
10 Czechia 9 14 2.9% $1,909,022$1.9m
11 Croatia 4 5 2.7% $1,783,358$1.8m
12 Great Britain 2 3 2.4% $1,577,900$1.6m
13 Netherlands 6 8 1.9% $1,244,904
14 Morocco 3 1 1.8% $1,190,865
15 Switzerland 3 5 1.7% $1,137,620

48 countries had a player paid in 2001, and the top three of them took 34.5% 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 2001?

Gustavo Kuerten, $4,091,004 from 30 events, with 7 titles and a 72-23 record.

How much prize money did tennis pay out in 2001?

$66,387,530 across the 208 players on this list, the 30th biggest season of the 55 the list covers. The season is down 2.1% on 2000, and is the 30th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

How many tennis players earned a million dollars in 2001?

11 of them. The top ten took 36.9% of everything paid out that season.

What share of 2001 prize money came from the grand slams?

21.4%. The four majors paid $14,217,615 of the $66,387,530 won that season.

Which country won the most tennis prize money in 2001?

Spain, $8,053,109 across 25 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 2001. 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 2001

The 2000 money list · The 2002 money list

Every season

By era

The 2001 top sixty

Elsewhere in tennis