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TENNIS · 214 PLAYERS PAID

The 2005 tennis prize money list

$67,388,151 won on court in 2005, split between 214 players. Roger Federer took $6,137,018 of it.

Every player the tour paid in 2005, 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 2.6% on 2004, and is the 29th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

PAID OUT $67.4m
TOP EARNER $6.1m
PLAYERS PAID 214
OVER $1M 14
FROM THE MAJORS 33.9%

The twenty biggest earners of 2005

Prize money won in the 2005 season

Top ten hold 34.0%

Roger Federer $6.1m Rafael Nadal $3.9m David Nalbandian $2.3m Andy Roddick $1.8m Andre Agassi $1.6m Nikolay Davydenko $1.6m Ivan Ljubicic $1.5m Lleyton Hewitt $1.5m Gaston Gaudio $1.4m Marat Safin $1.3m Guillermo Coria $1.3m Fernando Gonzalez $1.2m Max Mirnyi $1.1m Thomas Johansson $1.1m Jonas Bjorkman $988k David Ferrer $953k Tomas Berdych $915k Dominik Hrbaty $832k Robby Ginepri $813k Tommy Robredo $812k

Ten players out of 214 took 34.0% 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

2005 against 2004, for the ten biggest earners of 2005

2004 to 2005

# Player 2004 2005 Change
01 Roger Federer Switzerland $6,357,547 $6,137,018 -3.5%
02 Rafael Nadal Spain $447,758 $3,874,751 +765.4%
03 David Nalbandian Argentina $1,045,985 $2,273,486 +117.4%
04 Andy Roddick United States $2,604,890 $1,798,635 -31.0%
05 Andre Agassi United States $1,177,254 $1,629,596 +38.4%
06 Nikolay Davydenko Russia $651,522 $1,628,299 +149.9%
07 Ivan Ljubicic Croatia $648,992 $1,491,474 +129.8%
08 Lleyton Hewitt Australia $2,766,621 $1,459,437 -47.2%
09 Gaston Gaudio Argentina $1,639,339 $1,358,024 -17.2%
10 Marat Safin Russia $2,277,783 $1,288,115 -43.4%

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 2004 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 2005

Ranked by prize money won that season

214 players

# Player Titles W-L Events From majors Prize money
001 Roger Federer Switzerland 12 89-6 20 $2,758,118 $6,137,018$6.1m
002 Rafael Nadal Spain 12 102-21 34 $1,258,951 $3,874,751$3.9m
003 David Nalbandian Argentina 2 53-25 31 $477,291 $2,273,486$2.3m
004 Andy Roddick United States 5 68-18 24 $863,020 $1,798,635$1.8m
005 Andre Agassi United States 1 40-14 15 $956,046 $1,629,596$1.6m
006 Nikolay Davydenko Russia 1 81-47 50 $470,019 $1,628,299$1.6m
007 Ivan Ljubicic Croatia 3 80-39 48 $110,744 $1,491,474$1.5m
008 Lleyton Hewitt Australia 1 41-13 15 $1,016,680 $1,459,437$1.5m
009 Gaston Gaudio Argentina 5 64-27 31 $127,949 $1,358,024$1.4m
010 Marat Safin Russia 1 35-17 20 $1,041,395 $1,288,115
011 Guillermo Coria Argentina 2 63-30 30 $350,816 $1,285,726
012 Fernando Gonzalez Chile 5 84-40 47 $333,703 $1,167,015
013 Max Mirnyi Belarus 5 97-42 48 $516,116 $1,140,131
014 Thomas Johansson Sweden 1 67-44 47 $410,379 $1,076,266
015 Jonas Bjorkman Sweden 6 87-43 49 $467,096 $988,351
016 David Ferrer Spain 2 65-44 47 $242,147 $953,272
017 Tomas Berdych Czechia 1 55-51 52 $167,389 $914,846
018 Dominik Hrbaty Slovakia 1 75-54 58 $271,136 $831,766
019 Robby Ginepri United States 1 45-37 39 $330,191 $812,626
020 Tommy Robredo Spain 66-38 38 $272,718 $811,883
021 Radek Stepanek Czechia 2 73-41 43 $138,738 $798,710
022 Nicolas Kiefer Germany 46-33 34 $208,238 $732,898
023 Juan Carlos Ferrero Spain 47-28 28 $179,773 $727,673
024 Mario Ancic Croatia 2 68-36 42 $197,273 $702,670
025 Igor Andreev Russia 3 56-50 53 $164,575 $678,645
026 Fabrice Santoro France 4 75-45 48 $115,334 $662,329
027 Richard Gasquet France 3 45-16 19 $200,156 $653,373
028 Feliciano Lopez Spain 49-46 45 $254,384 $630,354
029 Sebastien Grosjean France 40-35 34 $294,074 $622,809
030 James Blake United States 4 53-31 35 $221,779 $617,989
031 Olivier Rochus Belgium 2 62-46 48 $190,708 $603,668
032 Michael Llodra France 4 65-45 52 $121,001 $601,266
033 Fernando Verdasco Spain 46-43 43 $160,822 $570,107
034 Mikhail Youzhny Russia 1 46-35 37 $191,671 $527,096
035 Jurgen Melzer Austria 1 54-44 47 $227,050 $506,765
036 Taylor Dent United States 39-29 29 $155,845 $499,240
037 Tommy Haas Germany 2 43-28 29 $129,028 $495,823
038 Jose Acasuso Argentina 2 59-45 48 $149,473 $486,692
039 Paradorn Srichaphan Thailand 46-43 45 $112,405 $484,139
040 Jarkko Nieminen Finland 1 49-35 39 $226,163 $482,818
041 Jiri Novak Czechia 1 40-50 49 $112,670 $477,360
042 Gael Monfils France 3 41-37 40 $108,627 $474,072
043 Wayne Arthurs Australia 3 66-44 53 $118,610 $461,742
044 Filippo Volandri Italy 38-41 41 $115,942 $460,942
045 Juan Ignacio Chela Argentina 48-45 45 $95,012 $460,832
046 Greg Rusedski Great Britain 1 32-26 28 $81,084 $457,519
047 Carlos Moya Spain 1 35-20 21 $116,558 $449,483
048 Guillermo Canas Argentina 31-19 20 $203,060 $449,420
049 Victor Hanescu Romania 36-35 35 $229,738 $448,198
050 Nicolas Massu Chile 36-38 40 $199,429 $445,699
051 Paul-Henri Mathieu France 32-38 38 $99,095 $438,455
052 Rainer Schuettler Germany 1 46-52 55 $121,485 $434,645
053 Tim Henman Great Britain 27-19 19 $105,742 $434,472
054 Florian Mayer Germany 31-40 40 $108,708 $432,563
055 Andrei Pavel Romania 1 47-47 49 $118,671 $427,236
056 Christophe Rochus Belgium 1 39-50 51 $83,772 $419,327
057 Xavier Malisse Belgium 2 44-32 34 $172,150 $412,732
058 Alberto Martin Spain 37-45 45 $81,747 $407,612
059 Davide Sanguinetti Italy 1 45-45 48 $152,999 $402,389
060 Kenneth Carlsen Denmark 1 23-33 35 $74,101 $380,576
061 Ivo Karlovic Croatia 31-39 42 $94,328 $356,973
062 Vincent Spadea United States 32-36 35 $105,625 $356,090
063 Daniel Nestor Canada 4 48-19 23 $51,713 $351,958
064 Arnaud Clement France 46-41 44 $118,821 $343,331
065 Luis Horna Peru 1 41-42 45 $100,917 $316,027
066 Agustin Calleri Argentina 2 42-34 37 $39,985 $312,765
067 Gilles Muller Luxembourg 37-41 44 $115,516 $303,916
068 Dmitry Tursunov Russia 2 35-28 32 $133,042 $302,322
069 Robin Soderling Sweden 1 21-22 23 $113,613 $294,785
070 Leander Paes India 3 46-20 26 $53,383 $290,938
071 Philipp Kohlschreiber Germany 2 35-41 45 $114,631 $288,838
072 Juan Monaco Argentina 28-41 42 $74,721 $284,361
073 Stan Wawrinka Switzerland 27-24 28 $111,911 $280,371
074 Hyung-Taik Lee South Korea 1 38-36 40 $125,539 $275,309
075 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez Spain 21-30 34 $81,084 $265,729
076 Marcos Baghdatis Cyprus 1 28-27 30 $106,041 $264,181
077 Albert Montanes Spain 1 29-40 41 $83,391 $256,446
078 Andreas Seppi Italy 25-27 41 $45,713 $256,358
079 Julien Benneteau France 3 45-46 52 $95,512 $254,354
080 Florent Serra France 3 45-31 39 $70,214 $250,204
081 Albert Costa Spain 1 19-19 20 $56,890 $247,935
082 Paul Goldstein United States 3 50-30 35 $90,860 $242,475
083 Nicolas Almagro Spain 22-32 35 $87,509 $231,024
084 Lars Burgsmuller Germany 1 33-45 51 $89,533 $230,143
085 Andy Murray Great Britain 2 41-21 25 $76,210 $219,490
086 Mariano Zabaleta Argentina 20-25 25 $44,985 $216,770
087 Potito Starace Italy 1 38-37 40 $46,049 $214,224
088 Justin Gimelstob United States 3 60-41 48 $88,554 $210,029
089 Novak Djokovic Serbia 1 24-17 23 $127,776 $202,416
090 Bjorn Phau Germany 2 35-29 35 $80,124 $200,149
091 Felix Mantilla Spain 15-19 20 $91,387 $193,542
092 Mariano Puerta Argentina 1 56-44 44 $0 $188,880
093 Nicolas Lapentti Ecuador 36-37 45 $17,208 $179,638
094 Janko Tipsarevic Serbia 1 27-33 39 $110,417 $173,112
095 Martin Damm Czechia 2 36-28 30 $45,568 $171,528
096 Nicolas Mahut France 2 55-37 45 $58,360 $169,930
097 Antony Dupuis France 21-39 42 $61,627 $166,742
098 David Sanchez Spain 12-23 25 $59,092 $155,607
099 Kristof Vliegen Belgium 1 44-33 40 $35,230 $154,940
100 Raemon Sluiter Netherlands 2 37-35 38 $47,483 $149,123
101 Thomas Enqvist Sweden 18-16 18 $47,483 $148,523
102 Gilles Simon France 1 26-33 47 $45,123 $146,543
103 Stefan Koubek Austria 16-23 26 $48,729 $141,331
104 Mardy Fish United States 12-18 18 $73,576 $139,876
105 Jan-Michael Gambill United States 1 33-40 46 $43,324 $129,949
106 Mark Philippoussis Australia 14-14 15 $43,255 $122,717
107 Yen-Hsun Lu Chinese Taipei 3 40-31 36 $61,711 $121,381
108 Fernando Vicente Spain 3 50-36 41 $56,318 $116,093
109 Sargis Sargsian Armenia 7-15 17 $70,944 $110,549
110 Igor Kunitsyn Russia 4 47-24 34 $13,258 $110,355
111 Younes El Aynaoui Morocco 8-25 26 $20,000 $100,090
112 Marc Gicquel France 3 39-29 38 $24,447 $98,107
113 Juan Antonio Marin Costa Rica 3 43-32 43 $9,630 $92,552
114 Todd Woodbridge Australia 1 21-10 13 $32,587 $91,022
115 Gustavo Kuerten Brazil 7-10 12 $41,434 $89,389
116 Bohdan Ulihrach Czechia 5-12 18 $46,420 $89,050
117 Teymuraz Gabashvili Russia 2 47-35 47 $7,351 $87,551
118 Michael Berrer Germany 2 43-31 39 $17,630 $86,980
119 Sergiy Stakhovsky Ukraine 3 39-32 43 $18,813 $85,073
120 Carlos Berlocq Argentina 4 71-36 42 $4,140 $84,355
121 Ramon Delgado Paraguay 3 49-31 38 $23,925 $82,660
122 Rajeev Ram United States 2 60-50 54 $20,000 $82,445
123 Sjeng Schalken Netherlands 9-11 13 $13,754 $82,069
124 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo Spain 2 57-41 48 $4,953 $77,098
125 Karol Kucera Slovakia 6-10 11 $53,255 $73,235
126 Albert Portas Spain 3 47-32 41 $2,208 $72,840
127 Lukasz Kubot Poland 5 68-40 52 $14,653 $71,186
128 Dudi Sela Israel 4 42-25 32 $22,179 $59,450
129 Scott Draper Australia 0-5 5 $47,483 $52,448
130 Edouard Roger-Vasselin France 4 43-36 45 $20,187 $51,863
131 Daniel Gimeno-Traver Spain 1 36-31 43 $26,202 $50,472
132 Alejandro Falla Colombia 18-17 24 $16,188 $48,123
133 Donald Young United States 2-10 10 $20,000 $44,795
134 Steve Darcis Belgium 5 64-36 43 $7,698 $40,361
135 Juan Martin del Potro Argentina 5 73-36 42 $3,000 $38,348
136 Paolo Lorenzi Italy 1 29-26 33 $14,856 $31,474
137 Franco Squillari Argentina 14-10 14 $13,905 $29,215
138 Jean-Julien Rojer Netherlands 3 63-49 56 $3,000 $28,692
139 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga France 2 18-9 13 $16,434 $28,134
140 Maximo Gonzalez Argentina 8 84-26 34 $0 $27,002
141 Alex Corretja Spain 2-7 7 $0 $26,295
142 Galo Blanco Spain 13-13 19 $2,208 $23,838
143 Simone Bolelli Italy 23-21 23 $5,625 $23,800
144 Marcel Granollers Spain 6 82-38 48 $0 $22,996
145 Michael Russell United States 3 35-16 20 $0 $21,695
146 Marcelo Melo Brazil 8 91-42 51 $0 $20,911
147 Denis Istomin Uzbekistan 5 58-26 33 $0 $20,297
148 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi Pakistan 2 48-37 46 $4,888 $20,246
149 Fabio Fognini Italy 2 27-23 26 $0 $17,668
150 Bruno Soares Brazil 2 60-29 33 $0 $15,962
151 Pablo Cuevas Uruguay 7 98-43 53 $0 $14,925
152 Malek Jaziri Tunisia 2 55-39 42 $0 $14,903
153 Rohan Bopanna India 2 52-34 37 $0 $14,668
154 Pablo Andujar Spain 4 75-42 48 $0 $14,434
155 Jerome Golmard France 4-6 10 $9,841 $14,391
156 Jeremy Chardy France 1 13-10 12 $8,258 $13,728
157 Sam Querrey United States 8-10 12 $8,000 $13,595
158 Andrey Golubev Kazakhstan 3 48-38 41 $0 $12,261
159 Santiago Giraldo Colombia 1 30-24 26 $0 $11,218
160 Viktor Troicki Serbia 2 56-29 32 $0 $10,923
161 Horacio Zeballos Argentina 4 76-40 45 $0 $10,922
162 Matwe Middelkoop Netherlands 2 22-23 29 $2,143 $10,089
163 Hicham Arazi Morocco 1-4 5 $0 $10,000
164 Lukas Lacko Slovakia 2 34-22 24 $0 $9,670
165 Marin Cilic Croatia 2 23-12 15 $0 $9,131
166 Benjamin Becker Germany 6 40-9 15 $0 $8,722
167 Mischa Zverev Germany 2 36-25 31 $0 $8,274
168 Aleksandr Nedovyesov Kazakhstan 43-32 32 $0 $7,739
169 Lukas Rosol Czechia 2 43-28 30 $0 $5,851
170 Ernests Gulbis Latvia 1 20-22 24 $0 $5,504
171 Filip Polasek Slovakia 5 36-14 19 $0 $5,372
172 Robin Haase Netherlands 2 21-10 14 $0 $5,362
173 Leonardo Mayer Argentina 3 27-15 19 $0 $5,266
174 Robert Farah Colombia 16-24 24 $0 $5,201
175 Jamie Murray Great Britain 5 40-21 27 $0 $4,651
176 Philipp Oswald Austria 33-32 34 $0 $4,331
177 Raven Klaasen South Africa 3 21-13 16 $0 $4,289
178 Fabrice Martin France 22-25 25 $0 $4,109
179 Ivan Dodig Croatia 2 23-17 19 $0 $3,717
180 Miguel Reyes-Varela Mexico 14-15 16 $0 $3,631
181 Thomaz Bellucci Brazil 15-19 19 $0 $3,432
182 Marc Rosset Switzerland 0-4 5 $0 $3,080
183 Juan Sebastian Cabal Colombia 16-15 15 $0 $3,039
184 Andres Molteni Argentina 20-18 18 $0 $2,957
185 Adrian Mannarino France 12-21 21 $0 $2,953
186 Roberto Bautista Agut Spain 11-11 11 $0 $2,930
187 Kevin Anderson South Africa 11-12 12 $0 $2,846
188 Andrea Arnaboldi Italy 5-13 13 $0 $2,705
189 John Isner United States 1 9-5 6 $0 $2,393
190 Thomas Muster Austria 0-1 1 $0 $1,500
191 Albert Ramos-Vinolas Spain 5-13 13 $0 $1,460
192 Matthew Ebden Australia 4-8 8 $0 $1,147
193 Jim Courier United States 0-1 1 $0 $1,000
194 Marcos Ondruska South Africa 1 8-3 4 $0 $937
195 Richard Fromberg Australia 1 4-0 1 $0 $775
196 Yuichi Sugita Japan 1-4 5 $0 $757
197 Treat Huey Philippines 1 7-2 4 $0 $645
198 Marc-Kevin Goellner Germany 2-4 4 $0 $643
199 Alexandr Dolgopolov Ukraine 2-5 5 $0 $588
200 Daniel Dutra da Silva Brazil 0-5 5 $0 $530
201 Andrej Martin Slovakia 1-2 2 $0 $520
202 Andrei Olhovskiy Russia 1 4-0 1 $0 $472
203 Petr Korda Czechia 0-1 1 $0 $450
204 Roman Jebavy Czechia 3-3 3 $0 $373
205 Martin Klizan Slovakia 0-1 1 $0 $360
206 Mikhail Kukushkin Kazakhstan 1-2 2 $0 $290
207 Attila Balazs Hungary 0-5 5 $0 $270
208 Illya Marchenko Ukraine 1-3 3 $0 $208
209 Ariel Behar Uruguay 0-1 1 $0 $180
210 Paolo Cane Italy 0-1 1 $0 $180
211 Nikola Mektic Croatia 0-2 2 $0 $176
212 Lars Jonsson Sweden 2-1 1 $0 $130
213 Daniel Evans Great Britain 0-1 1 $0 $118
214 Guido Pella Argentina 0-2 2 $0 $118

Where 2005 sits

Every season the tour has paid, in order

55 seasons

2005 is the 29th biggest season of the 55 on the chart.

Which countries won the 2005 money

The fifteen biggest flags on the 2005 list

52 countries paid

# Country Players Titles Share Prize money
01 Spain 24 36 15.1% $10,183,874$10.2m
02 Argentina 18 38 11.2% $7,515,139$7.5m
03 United States 16 24 9.8% $6,602,428$6.6m
04 Switzerland 3 12 9.5% $6,420,469$6.4m
05 France 19 33 7.4% $4,996,693$5.0m
06 Russia 8 15 6.9% $4,622,855$4.6m
07 Germany 11 18 4.3% $2,919,678$2.9m
08 Croatia 6 9 3.8% $2,564,141$2.6m
09 Sweden 5 8 3.7% $2,508,055$2.5m
10 Czechia 8 8 3.6% $2,458,168$2.5m
11 Australia 7 6 3.2% $2,189,288$2.2m
12 Belgium 5 11 2.4% $1,631,028$1.6m
13 Chile 2 5 2.4% $1,612,714$1.6m
14 Italy 9 5 2.1% $1,409,740$1.4m
15 Belarus 1 5 1.7% $1,140,131

52 countries had a player paid in 2005, and the top three of them took 36.1% 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 2005?

Roger Federer, $6,137,018 from 20 events, with 12 titles and a 89-6 record.

How much prize money did tennis pay out in 2005?

$67,388,151 across the 214 players on this list, the 29th biggest season of the 55 the list covers. The season is up 2.6% on 2004, and is the 29th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

How many tennis players earned a million dollars in 2005?

14 of them. The top ten took 34.0% of everything paid out that season.

What share of 2005 prize money came from the grand slams?

33.9%. The four majors paid $22,841,172 of the $67,388,151 won that season.

Which country won the most tennis prize money in 2005?

Spain, $10,183,874 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 2005. 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 2005

The 2004 money list · The 2006 money list

Every season

By era

The 2005 top sixty

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