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TENNIS · 201 PLAYERS PAID

The 2002 tennis prize money list

$63,662,230 won on court in 2002, split between 201 players. Lleyton Hewitt took $4,619,386 of it.

Every player the tour paid in 2002, 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 4.1% on 2001, and is the 33th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

PAID OUT $63.7m
TOP EARNER $4.6m
PLAYERS PAID 201
OVER $1M 16
FROM THE MAJORS 24.9%

The twenty biggest earners of 2002

Prize money won in the 2002 season

Top ten hold 33.1%

Lleyton Hewitt $4.6m Juan Carlos Ferrero $2.8m Andre Agassi $2.2m Roger Federer $2.0m Yevgeny Kafelnikov $1.8m Carlos Moya $1.8m Marat Safin $1.7m Jiri Novak $1.5m Albert Costa $1.4m Sebastien Grosjean $1.3m Guillermo Canas $1.3m Pete Sampras $1.2m Tim Henman $1.2m Tommy Haas $1.2m Thomas Johansson $1.1m Andy Roddick $1.1m Max Mirnyi $969k David Nalbandian $915k Sjeng Schalken $889k Fabrice Santoro $811k

Ten players out of 201 took 33.1% 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

2002 against 2001, for the ten biggest earners of 2002

2001 to 2002

# Player 2001 2002 Change
01 Lleyton Hewitt Australia $4,045,618 $4,619,386 +14.2%
02 Juan Carlos Ferrero Spain $2,179,671 $2,761,498 +26.7%
03 Andre Agassi United States $2,341,766 $2,186,006 -6.7%
04 Roger Federer Switzerland $865,425 $1,995,027 +130.5%
05 Yevgeny Kafelnikov Russia $3,238,889 $1,778,810 -45.1%
06 Carlos Moya Spain $597,862 $1,772,314 +196.4%
07 Marat Safin Russia $2,207,702 $1,719,408 -22.1%
08 Jiri Novak Czechia $849,093 $1,454,130 +71.3%
09 Albert Costa Spain $518,805 $1,434,439 +176.5%
10 Sebastien Grosjean France $1,918,584 $1,331,157 -30.6%

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 2001 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 2002

Ranked by prize money won that season

201 players

# Player Titles W-L Events From majors Prize money
001 Lleyton Hewitt Australia 5 73-24 31 $1,094,554 $4,619,386$4.6m
002 Juan Carlos Ferrero Spain 2 57-34 36 $418,288 $2,761,498$2.8m
003 Andre Agassi United States 5 58-12 16 $564,061 $2,186,006$2.2m
004 Roger Federer Switzerland 5 88-33 42 $124,227 $1,995,027$2.0m
005 Yevgeny Kafelnikov Russia 3 75-50 54 $228,840 $1,778,810$1.8m
006 Carlos Moya Spain 4 64-26 31 $64,899 $1,772,314$1.8m
007 Marat Safin Russia 1 74-41 46 $479,741 $1,719,408$1.7m
008 Jiri Novak Czechia 90-50 53 $337,170 $1,454,130$1.5m
009 Albert Costa Spain 1 40-29 31 $775,484 $1,434,439$1.4m
010 Sebastien Grosjean France 2 60-33 38 $135,472 $1,331,157
011 Guillermo Canas Argentina 3 69-41 46 $141,452 $1,276,617
012 Pete Sampras United States 1 29-17 18 $962,434 $1,222,999
013 Tim Henman Great Britain 1 63-27 32 $283,299 $1,194,899
014 Tommy Haas Germany 50-29 32 $238,624 $1,163,569
015 Thomas Johansson Sweden 1 38-34 38 $549,564 $1,073,691
016 Andy Roddick United States 3 70-29 34 $179,680 $1,060,878
017 Max Mirnyi Belarus 3 85-48 53 $381,077 $968,672
018 David Nalbandian Argentina 2 42-33 36 $445,692 $914,882
019 Sjeng Schalken Netherlands 1 66-56 60 $418,336 $888,581
020 Fabrice Santoro France 2 60-48 55 $124,105 $810,555
021 Younes El Aynaoui Morocco 3 60-45 50 $174,532 $800,977
022 Jonas Bjorkman Sweden 5 75-41 49 $319,849 $786,909
023 Alex Corretja Spain 2 60-31 34 $226,051 $780,986
024 Fernando Gonzalez Chile 2 46-30 40 $206,211 $735,682
025 Daniel Nestor Canada 6 78-18 31 $266,889 $704,026
026 James Blake United States 3 68-43 50 $108,091 $678,026
027 Paradorn Srichaphan Thailand 2 56-32 41 $90,079 $651,089
028 Andrei Pavel Romania 63-42 47 $170,178 $646,098
029 Nicolas Escude France 3 52-30 34 $62,480 $617,075
030 Gaston Gaudio Argentina 2 45-20 26 $126,349 $610,684
031 Arnaud Clement France 1 54-42 44 $188,470 $606,035
032 Rainer Schuettler Germany 49-48 50 $96,504 $586,434
033 Nicolas Lapentti Ecuador 1 47-44 47 $156,375 $580,135
034 Xavier Malisse Belgium 35-31 34 $295,827 $570,952
035 Tommy Robredo Spain 37-45 46 $95,763 $552,493
036 Juan Ignacio Chela Argentina 1 54-33 36 $92,645 $548,780
037 Jan-Michael Gambill United States 2 60-46 50 $118,126 $546,618
038 Marcelo Rios Chile 37-28 28 $101,500 $506,160
039 Radek Stepanek Czechia 1 52-40 52 $146,668 $444,793
040 Gustavo Kuerten Brazil 1 36-19 22 $116,414 $441,974
041 Todd Woodbridge Australia 4 53-16 21 $221,372 $435,377
042 Ivan Ljubicic Croatia 37-39 42 $70,902 $434,942
043 Mikhail Youzhny Russia 1 34-35 40 $87,952 $434,142
044 Nicolas Kiefer Germany 1 39-45 50 $66,052 $418,187
045 Thomas Enqvist Sweden 1 36-24 29 $85,689 $417,962
046 Wayne Ferreira South Africa 39-33 34 $191,125 $409,125
047 Paul-Henri Mathieu France 2 37-30 36 $92,928 $406,768
048 Greg Rusedski Great Britain 2 35-18 20 $111,498 $405,233
049 Jose Acasuso Argentina 4 51-30 38 $45,645 $396,050
050 Felix Mantilla Spain 30-27 28 $18,790 $392,150
051 Todd Martin United States 1 33-19 24 $67,989 $388,299
052 Wayne Arthurs Australia 47-47 52 $125,542 $385,527
053 Dominik Hrbaty Slovakia 2 51-52 56 $104,741 $382,221
054 Stefan Koubek Austria 24-38 40 $105,934 $376,084
055 Jarkko Nieminen Finland 2 48-36 40 $67,501 $357,876
056 Davide Sanguinetti Italy 3 35-37 43 $48,354 $352,809
057 Fernando Vicente Spain 38-44 48 $89,922 $347,992
058 Mariano Zabaleta Argentina 25-32 36 $81,214 $332,569
059 Bohdan Ulihrach Czechia 24-33 36 $41,267 $327,937
060 Agustin Calleri Argentina 33-32 34 $41,267 $319,132
061 Alberto Martin Spain 32-34 37 $82,038 $311,768
062 Michael Llodra France 1 41-48 56 $119,561 $293,361
063 Albert Portas Spain 40-47 48 $75,706 $287,498
064 Martin Damm Czechia 3 50-27 30 $61,690 $273,530
065 Guillermo Coria Argentina 2 36-20 26 $65,954 $269,134
066 Fernando Meligeni Brazil 21-27 31 $58,354 $268,069
067 Kenneth Carlsen Denmark 1 31-22 28 $40,590 $267,643
068 Nicolas Massu Chile 1 31-24 28 $56,090 $261,595
069 Taylor Dent United States 1 27-24 32 $62,803 $259,486
070 David Sanchez Spain 1 32-28 33 $48,354 $253,479
071 Adrian Voinea Romania 19-23 32 $93,099 $250,434
072 Albert Montanes Spain 24-35 35 $60,044 $249,594
073 Lars Burgsmuller Germany 3 36-42 52 $41,267 $248,007
074 Olivier Rochus Belgium 36-32 39 $68,389 $243,310
075 Antony Dupuis France 1 34-34 41 $55,524 $242,519
076 Franco Squillari Argentina 1 22-25 27 $30,267 $240,057
077 Feliciano Lopez Spain 27-30 40 $93,794 $238,659
078 Magnus Norman Sweden 16-26 30 $21,677 $236,872
079 Nikolay Davydenko Russia 1 31-40 48 $58,354 $235,304
080 Hicham Arazi Morocco 17-30 32 $74,422 $233,497
081 Andrea Gaudenzi Italy 19-41 41 $64,422 $222,697
082 Vincent Spadea United States 1 35-25 39 $74,461 $221,008
083 Cedric Pioline France 23-29 36 $22,477 $220,122
084 Sandon Stolle Australia 1 47-27 28 $27,548 $217,108
085 Mark Philippoussis Australia 18-19 20 $95,962 $215,637
086 Karol Kucera Slovakia 19-19 24 $43,845 $202,920
087 Sargis Sargsian Armenia 18-26 31 $74,224 $200,034
088 Francisco Clavet Spain 14-26 31 $53,445 $193,050
089 Raemon Sluiter Netherlands 4 49-35 44 $58,724 $192,200
090 Paul Haarhuis Netherlands 1 21-7 10 $142,024 $188,554
091 Mardy Fish United States 4 57-31 43 $50,766 $181,887
092 Galo Blanco Spain 24-35 40 $30,267 $179,182
093 David Prinosil Germany 1 34-28 41 $53,819 $166,887
094 Ramon Delgado Paraguay 17-30 36 $71,145 $166,820
095 Michael Chang United States 1 22-30 31 $58,724 $165,564
096 Richard Krajicek Netherlands 8-7 7 $113,198 $161,403
097 Hyung-Taik Lee South Korea 1 29-25 34 $40,934 $153,861
098 Christophe Rochus Belgium 17-32 38 $34,645 $151,395
099 Marc Rosset Switzerland 30-30 38 $30,257 $149,992
100 Justin Gimelstob United States 1 62-44 50 $34,341 $141,630
101 David Ferrer Spain 5 49-26 35 $0 $137,051
102 Jerome Golmard France 18-15 16 $42,768 $133,868
103 Jurgen Melzer Austria 1 40-29 36 $32,800 $133,654
104 Robby Ginepri United States 3 32-28 38 $26,427 $126,476
105 Leander Paes India 2 30-25 31 $45,027 $124,447
106 Luis Horna Peru 5 68-29 46 $11,000 $122,515
107 Michael Russell United States 23-30 42 $30,267 $114,427
108 Jeff Tarango United States 19-37 40 $21,340 $105,230
109 Andrei Olhovskiy Russia 2 25-24 26 $18,687 $104,002
110 Mario Ancic Croatia 4 57-33 41 $30,257 $101,122
111 Daniel Vacek Czechia 1 18-23 30 $21,630 $100,075
112 Magnus Larsson Sweden 13-16 26 $11,800 $90,161
113 Scott Draper Australia 3 29-18 27 $40,001 $84,948
114 Bjorn Phau Germany 32-38 46 $0 $71,547
115 Juan Antonio Marin Costa Rica 31-30 42 $0 $67,388
116 Goran Ivanisevic Croatia 9-9 12 $12,168 $66,018
117 Byron Black Zimbabwe 13-13 18 $34,162 $63,100
118 Richard Gasquet France 3 22-9 16 $13,530 $62,085
119 Robin Soderling Sweden 34-25 31 $21,000 $56,770
120 Mariano Puerta Argentina 2 36-27 33 $17,764 $56,407
121 Paul Goldstein United States 2 30-31 40 $0 $56,380
122 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo Spain 3 42-36 49 $0 $51,075
123 Igor Kunitsyn Russia 2 56-33 39 $11,000 $50,572
124 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi Pakistan 4 54-26 39 $18,618 $48,106
125 Julien Benneteau France 1 27-33 40 $14,934 $43,291
126 Victor Hanescu Romania 3 37-33 45 $0 $42,728
127 Filippo Volandri Italy 33-29 36 $0 $41,921
128 Andrew Ilie Australia 1-15 14 $18,467 $41,347
129 Renzo Furlan Italy 28-27 38 $0 $40,631
130 Ivo Karlovic Croatia 1 36-40 50 $0 $39,557
131 Karim Alami Morocco 4-17 20 $0 $36,004
132 Fernando Verdasco Spain 3 42-21 30 $0 $33,195
133 Florent Serra France 1 30-24 33 $0 $31,904
134 Yen-Hsun Lu Chinese Taipei 9 81-37 48 $0 $30,014
135 Nicolas Mahut France 3 40-34 41 $2,853 $29,043
136 Jan Siemerink Netherlands 8-11 14 $0 $26,963
137 Gianluca Pozzi Italy 1 24-20 26 $0 $25,135
138 Philipp Kohlschreiber Germany 1 19-20 22 $0 $24,499
139 Rafael Nadal Spain 6 48-12 19 $0 $23,975
140 Marc Gicquel France 2 27-18 23 $0 $23,280
141 Kristof Vliegen Belgium 3 39-20 25 $0 $22,696
142 Sergi Bruguera Spain 1 12-6 9 $0 $21,440
143 Stefano Pescosolido Italy 2 26-20 29 $0 $21,265
144 Janko Tipsarevic Serbia 2 50-28 31 $0 $20,055
145 Potito Starace Italy 1 37-28 32 $0 $19,617
146 Marc-Kevin Goellner Germany 10-13 16 $3,564 $19,339
147 Gilles Muller Luxembourg 3 49-27 37 $0 $16,467
148 Dmitry Tursunov Russia 3 31-17 21 $0 $16,040
149 Hendrik Dreekmann Germany 1-7 7 $0 $14,540
150 Carlos Berlocq Argentina 6 57-25 32 $0 $13,674
151 Richard Fromberg Australia 0-3 3 $10,067 $13,267
152 Rajeev Ram United States 2 27-22 24 $4,750 $13,266
153 Jean-Julien Rojer Netherlands 8 63-16 28 $0 $12,371
154 Lukasz Kubot Poland 1 21-25 26 $0 $11,936
155 Rohan Bopanna India 6 62-29 35 $0 $11,755
156 Raven Klaasen South Africa 4 57-33 37 $0 $10,979
157 Chris Woodruff United States 4-4 8 $0 $9,151
158 Andreas Seppi Italy 11-19 22 $0 $8,850
159 Igor Andreev Russia 3 24-8 15 $0 $8,660
160 Bruno Soares Brazil 4 48-32 36 $0 $8,254
161 Tomas Berdych Czechia 2 22-15 18 $0 $8,246
162 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga France 25-18 18 $2,853 $8,088
163 Andrei Cherkasov Russia 28-21 23 $0 $8,038
164 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez Spain 35-20 21 $0 $7,861
165 Edouard Roger-Vasselin France 1 36-24 25 $0 $7,798
166 Michael Berrer Germany 11-14 20 $0 $6,891
167 Marcelo Melo Brazil 3 40-22 25 $0 $6,875
168 Juan Monaco Argentina 1 24-26 28 $0 $6,855
169 Florian Mayer Germany 20-17 17 $0 $6,672
170 Alejandro Falla Colombia 1 30-21 23 $0 $5,769
171 Sebastien Lareau Canada 2-3 5 $0 $5,145
172 Paolo Lorenzi Italy 11-12 12 $0 $3,324
173 Jonathan Stark United States 0-2 2 $2,277 $3,277
174 Teymuraz Gabashvili Russia 1 8-8 11 $0 $2,638
175 Nicolas Almagro Spain 11-8 8 $0 $2,274
176 Dudi Sela Israel 16-13 13 $0 $2,118
177 Ronald Agenor Haiti 1-6 7 $0 $1,736
178 Malek Jaziri Tunisia 5-12 12 $0 $1,569
179 Daniel Gimeno-Traver Spain 1 7-10 11 $0 $1,436
180 Benjamin Becker Germany 2-3 3 $0 $1,340
181 Maximo Gonzalez Argentina 4-10 10 $0 $1,263
182 Marcos Baghdatis Cyprus 5-6 6 $0 $1,159
183 Simone Bolelli Italy 1 4-4 5 $0 $1,004
184 Matwe Middelkoop Netherlands 3-12 12 $0 $902
185 Mischa Zverev Germany 0-4 4 $0 $788
186 Sergiy Stakhovsky Ukraine 1-6 6 $0 $786
187 Gilles Simon France 1-6 6 $0 $654
188 Stan Wawrinka Switzerland 3-4 5 $0 $565
189 Marcel Granollers Spain 0-1 2 $0 $476
190 Lukas Rosol Czechia 2-2 2 $0 $435
191 Steve Darcis Belgium 2-2 2 $0 $435
192 Marcos Ondruska South Africa 2-2 2 $0 $270
193 Nicolas Pereira Venezuela 2-2 2 $0 $195
194 Gilbert Schaller Austria 0-2 2 $0 $180
195 Fabio Fognini Italy 0-1 1 $0 $176
196 Juan Sebastian Cabal Colombia 0-1 1 $0 $176
197 Santiago Giraldo Colombia 0-1 1 $0 $176
198 Alex O'Brien United States 1-1 1 $0 $160
199 Pablo Andujar Spain 0-1 1 $0 $118
200 Pablo Cuevas Uruguay 0-3 3 $0 $118
201 Sam Querrey United States 0-1 1 $0 $118

Where 2002 sits

Every season the tour has paid, in order

55 seasons

2002 is the 33th biggest season of the 55 on the chart.

Which countries won the 2002 money

The fifteen biggest flags on the 2002 list

48 countries paid

# Country Players Titles Share Prize money
01 Spain 24 29 15.8% $10,034,003$10.0m
02 United States 20 30 11.8% $7,480,886$7.5m
03 Australia 8 13 9.4% $6,012,597$6.0m
04 Argentina 13 24 7.8% $4,986,104$5.0m
05 France 17 23 7.6% $4,867,603$4.9m
06 Russia 10 17 6.8% $4,357,614$4.4m
07 Germany 13 6 4.3% $2,728,700$2.7m
08 Sweden 6 7 4.2% $2,662,365$2.7m
09 Czechia 7 7 4.1% $2,609,146$2.6m
10 Switzerland 3 5 3.4% $2,145,584$2.1m
11 Great Britain 2 3 2.5% $1,600,132$1.6m
12 Chile 3 3 2.4% $1,503,437$1.5m
13 Netherlands 7 14 2.3% $1,470,974$1.5m
14 Morocco 3 3 1.7% $1,070,478
15 Belgium 5 3 1.6% $988,788

48 countries had a player paid in 2002, and the top three of them took 37.0% 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 2002?

Lleyton Hewitt, $4,619,386 from 31 events, with 5 titles and a 73-24 record.

How much prize money did tennis pay out in 2002?

$63,662,230 across the 201 players on this list, the 33th biggest season of the 55 the list covers. The season is down 4.1% on 2001, and is the 33th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

How many tennis players earned a million dollars in 2002?

16 of them. The top ten took 33.1% of everything paid out that season.

What share of 2002 prize money came from the grand slams?

24.9%. The four majors paid $15,834,900 of the $63,662,230 won that season.

Which country won the most tennis prize money in 2002?

Spain, $10,034,003 across 24 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 2002. 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 2002

The 2001 money list · The 2003 money list

Every season

By era

The 2002 top sixty

Elsewhere in tennis