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TENNIS · 220 PLAYERS PAID

The 2006 tennis prize money list

$69,881,191 won on court in 2006, split between 220 players. Roger Federer took $8,343,885 of it.

Every player the tour paid in 2006, 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 3.7% on 2005, and is the 25th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

PAID OUT $69.9m
TOP EARNER $8.3m
PLAYERS PAID 220
OVER $1M 14
FROM THE MAJORS 35.0%

The twenty biggest earners of 2006

Prize money won in the 2006 season

Top ten hold 36.2%

Roger Federer $8.3m Rafael Nadal $3.7m Andy Roddick $2.2m Nikolay Davydenko $2.0m James Blake $1.9m Ivan Ljubicic $1.7m Tommy Robredo $1.5m David Nalbandian $1.4m Mario Ancic $1.3m Jonas Bjorkman $1.2m Marcos Baghdatis $1.2m Max Mirnyi $1.1m Fernando Gonzalez $1.1m Tomas Berdych $1.0m Tommy Haas $947k Jarkko Nieminen $895k David Ferrer $886k Radek Stepanek $820k Fabrice Santoro $792k Richard Gasquet $770k

Ten players out of 220 took 36.2% 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

2006 against 2005, for the ten biggest earners of 2006

2005 to 2006

# Player 2005 2006 Change
01 Roger Federer Switzerland $6,137,018 $8,343,885 +36.0%
02 Rafael Nadal Spain $3,874,751 $3,746,360 -3.3%
03 Andy Roddick United States $1,798,635 $2,214,890 +23.1%
04 Nikolay Davydenko Russia $1,628,299 $2,026,845 +24.5%
05 James Blake United States $617,989 $1,894,295 +206.5%
06 Ivan Ljubicic Croatia $1,491,474 $1,713,167 +14.9%
07 Tommy Robredo Spain $811,883 $1,454,675 +79.2%
08 David Nalbandian Argentina $2,273,486 $1,420,040 -37.5%
09 Mario Ancic Croatia $702,670 $1,276,265 +81.6%
10 Jonas Bjorkman Sweden $988,351 $1,221,485 +23.6%

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 2005 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 2006

Ranked by prize money won that season

220 players

# Player Titles W-L Events From majors Prize money
001 Roger Federer Switzerland 12 99-8 22 $3,911,635 $8,343,885$8.3m
002 Rafael Nadal Spain 5 70-18 24 $1,932,060 $3,746,360$3.7m
003 Andy Roddick United States 2 59-23 24 $1,223,680 $2,214,890$2.2m
004 Nikolay Davydenko Russia 5 84-37 43 $566,390 $2,026,845$2.0m
005 James Blake United States 5 77-35 39 $272,700 $1,894,295$1.9m
006 Ivan Ljubicic Croatia 4 74-33 38 $501,465 $1,713,167$1.7m
007 Tommy Robredo Spain 2 60-44 44 $247,725 $1,454,675$1.5m
008 David Nalbandian Argentina 1 52-27 31 $609,055 $1,420,040$1.4m
009 Mario Ancic Croatia 4 74-23 32 $339,750 $1,276,265
010 Jonas Bjorkman Sweden 8 83-33 44 $681,660 $1,221,485
011 Marcos Baghdatis Cyprus 1 44-25 29 $818,710 $1,155,495
012 Max Mirnyi Belarus 7 90-39 50 $490,670 $1,146,265
013 Fernando Gonzalez Chile 67-36 38 $161,180 $1,124,630
014 Tomas Berdych Czechia 67-46 51 $282,245 $1,023,135
015 Tommy Haas Germany 3 55-25 29 $295,000 $947,035
016 Jarkko Nieminen Finland 1 78-49 55 $252,200 $894,565
017 David Ferrer Spain 1 53-41 43 $254,870 $886,135
018 Radek Stepanek Czechia 2 47-23 26 $225,465 $820,460
019 Fabrice Santoro France 4 70-42 45 $320,150 $791,790
020 Richard Gasquet France 4 49-31 36 $136,960 $770,310
021 Dominik Hrbaty Slovakia 55-53 53 $169,865 $732,430
022 Dmitry Tursunov Russia 3 82-57 64 $209,815 $723,364
023 Mikhail Youzhny Russia 39-41 45 $413,955 $704,717
024 Andy Murray Great Britain 1 51-39 42 $219,485 $677,802
025 Lleyton Hewitt Australia 1 37-16 18 $404,920 $646,680
026 Novak Djokovic Serbia 2 45-30 38 $309,390 $644,940
027 Olivier Rochus Belgium 2 63-38 44 $200,260 $581,390
028 Juan Carlos Ferrero Spain 32-25 25 $164,200 $579,740
029 Marat Safin Russia 46-37 39 $119,000 $572,527
030 Jose Acasuso Argentina 2 55-36 43 $83,120 $567,940
031 Arnaud Clement France 4 49-34 41 $90,940 $554,555
032 Fernando Verdasco Spain 44-43 43 $192,190 $535,937
033 Gaston Gaudio Argentina 1 37-27 27 $201,555 $532,135
034 Juan Ignacio Chela Argentina 46-40 43 $128,025 $530,262
035 Julien Benneteau France 3 46-34 42 $266,065 $523,735
036 Nicolas Massu Chile 1 48-41 44 $114,850 $514,880
037 Sebastien Grosjean France 37-33 34 $228,270 $510,772
038 Paradorn Srichaphan Thailand 37-46 47 $80,285 $510,305
039 Stan Wawrinka Switzerland 1 44-37 39 $158,595 $504,720
040 Jurgen Melzer Austria 3 78-49 56 $102,580 $503,454
041 Xavier Malisse Belgium 43-35 35 $144,225 $491,300
042 Agustin Calleri Argentina 2 48-34 39 $68,130 $490,805
043 Kristof Vliegen Belgium 50-37 40 $131,890 $477,925
044 Robin Soderling Sweden 1 44-27 30 $66,445 $477,635
045 Gael Monfils France 26-28 28 $150,415 $475,407
046 Martin Damm Czechia 3 43-25 27 $339,685 $473,805
047 Filippo Volandri Italy 1 42-43 42 $87,105 $472,705
048 Nicolas Kiefer Germany 18-12 12 $279,780 $456,005
049 Leander Paes India 2 38-20 23 $339,685 $440,695
050 Tim Henman Great Britain 34-22 22 $99,160 $436,385
051 Daniel Nestor Canada 5 58-21 27 $73,875 $432,585
052 Robby Ginepri United States 32-42 41 $107,825 $428,217
053 Christophe Rochus Belgium 31-48 49 $103,425 $427,765
054 Paul-Henri Mathieu France 31-40 41 $155,425 $423,072
055 Nicolas Almagro Spain 1 35-35 42 $93,760 $414,890
056 Philipp Kohlschreiber Germany 1 34-28 32 $129,020 $412,755
057 Carlos Moya Spain 1 33-25 26 $108,590 $404,285
058 Feliciano Lopez Spain 30-49 48 $113,225 $401,937
059 Florent Serra France 1 31-44 45 $95,260 $400,040
060 Luis Horna Peru 2 36-36 40 $106,160 $392,847
061 Gilles Simon France 1 38-36 42 $111,350 $378,760
062 Alberto Martin Spain 1 36-34 36 $161,845 $365,540
063 Bjorn Phau Germany 2 44-42 46 $124,850 $348,695
064 Andreas Seppi Italy 32-46 51 $91,140 $336,020
065 Mardy Fish United States 3 52-30 36 $82,200 $334,572
066 Paul Goldstein United States 2 56-42 44 $116,870 $332,995
067 Thomas Johansson Sweden 1 19-25 25 $123,715 $329,440
068 Ivo Karlovic Croatia 2 36-30 33 $107,980 $329,387
069 Florian Mayer Germany 3 47-29 35 $110,680 $328,535
070 Andrei Pavel Romania 3 39-35 41 $133,195 $324,575
071 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo Spain 1 35-36 42 $128,255 $321,465
072 Nicolas Mahut France 5 55-41 52 $127,955 $317,915
073 Vincent Spadea United States 31-39 47 $115,225 $316,320
074 Rainer Schuettler Germany 1 38-50 53 $89,140 $313,699
075 Justin Gimelstob United States 1 44-47 52 $127,715 $304,792
076 Davide Sanguinetti Italy 2 32-45 47 $114,255 $304,245
077 Potito Starace Italy 1 39-39 44 $104,665 $291,860
078 Marc Gicquel France 1 46-34 42 $109,505 $291,660
079 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez Spain 2 38-33 43 $90,025 $280,457
080 Hyung-Taik Lee South Korea 4 66-35 46 $69,520 $278,572
081 Michael Llodra France 3 49-34 44 $75,810 $274,980
082 Juan Monaco Argentina 22-36 41 $90,775 $267,330
083 Albert Montanes Spain 1 32-46 48 $105,960 $259,625
084 Igor Andreev Russia 21-20 22 $38,970 $256,535
085 Jiri Novak Czechia 1 25-23 25 $116,490 $251,342
086 Igor Kunitsyn Russia 38-42 47 $45,680 $250,084
087 Janko Tipsarevic Serbia 4 48-42 53 $74,490 $248,920
088 Benjamin Becker Germany 1 50-41 50 $101,180 $238,049
089 Fernando Vicente Spain 3 60-59 65 $88,750 $237,845
090 Gilles Muller Luxembourg 33-41 45 $86,125 $234,410
091 Guillermo Coria Argentina 15-22 22 $51,860 $207,735
092 Raemon Sluiter Netherlands 23-34 35 $97,165 $202,780
093 Kenneth Carlsen Denmark 32-33 35 $31,660 $186,545
094 Nicolas Lapentti Ecuador 1 35-27 34 $29,640 $185,980
095 Stefan Koubek Austria 1 36-31 44 $16,500 $185,605
096 Carlos Berlocq Argentina 1 43-53 54 $53,140 $182,360
097 Wayne Arthurs Australia 28-32 47 $72,640 $176,677
098 Greg Rusedski Great Britain 10-20 21 $56,445 $174,450
099 Mark Philippoussis Australia 2 24-18 20 $59,520 $172,970
100 Lukasz Kubot Poland 1 51-43 56 $54,745 $172,137
101 Teymuraz Gabashvili Russia 1 29-32 43 $26,500 $170,860
102 Juan Martin del Potro Argentina 3 39-36 44 $38,575 $169,815
103 Albert Portas Spain 32-33 40 $46,600 $159,290
104 Alejandro Falla Colombia 1 25-19 37 $85,320 $158,425
105 Andre Agassi United States 12-8 8 $90,200 $156,700
106 Ramon Delgado Paraguay 1 34-28 39 $30,680 $137,110
107 Lars Burgsmuller Germany 41-47 59 $40,380 $132,115
108 Sam Querrey United States 3 36-33 36 $31,500 $129,379
109 Juan Antonio Marin Costa Rica 28-43 48 $31,660 $119,975
110 Michael Berrer Germany 1 30-26 37 $34,370 $118,285
111 Simone Bolelli Italy 3 49-31 47 $0 $109,645
112 Yen-Hsun Lu Chinese Taipei 2 71-49 55 $31,710 $107,915
113 Marin Cilic Croatia 1 23-32 42 $0 $87,600
114 Mariano Zabaleta Argentina 13-25 27 $33,950 $84,845
115 Ernests Gulbis Latvia 5 54-26 37 $0 $82,074
116 Michael Russell United States 3 38-21 31 $16,500 $73,985
117 Mischa Zverev Germany 10 100-34 53 $0 $72,543
118 Marcel Granollers Spain 9 93-42 56 $17,870 $68,558
119 Rajeev Ram United States 4 56-34 46 $8,610 $67,766
120 Jeremy Chardy France 1 38-39 45 $33,895 $66,147
121 Sergiy Stakhovsky Ukraine 1 27-37 47 $0 $64,650
122 Younes El Aynaoui Morocco 19-13 17 $0 $57,940
123 Rohan Bopanna India 1 44-35 41 $0 $55,504
124 Victor Hanescu Romania 0-10 10 $17,450 $52,170
125 Fabio Fognini Italy 1 25-30 41 $0 $52,110
126 Daniel Gimeno-Traver Spain 1 33-38 48 $0 $51,720
127 Paolo Lorenzi Italy 1 32-45 52 $0 $51,650
128 Denis Istomin Uzbekistan 6 77-42 52 $13,840 $51,340
129 Viktor Troicki Serbia 4 43-24 39 $0 $44,009
130 Maximo Gonzalez Argentina 5 49-27 36 $0 $43,838
131 Robin Haase Netherlands 4 79-36 41 $0 $43,421
132 Dudi Sela Israel 5 50-33 43 $0 $42,490
133 Guillermo Canas Argentina 4 31-4 8 $0 $42,015
134 Taylor Dent United States 2-5 5 $13,840 $40,195
135 Donald Young United States 19-24 24 $21,500 $39,741
136 Pablo Andujar Spain 5 64-38 46 $0 $35,813
137 Jamie Murray Great Britain 2 52-28 31 $4,545 $34,849
138 Antony Dupuis France 1 27-20 30 $0 $33,290
139 Bohdan Ulihrach Czechia 10-10 13 $0 $31,115
140 Santiago Giraldo Colombia 4 56-24 31 $0 $29,016
141 Lukas Lacko Slovakia 3 53-32 39 $0 $28,665
142 Pablo Cuevas Uruguay 4 73-43 49 $0 $27,454
143 Horacio Zeballos Argentina 8 92-41 49 $0 $25,982
144 Alexandr Dolgopolov Ukraine 7 57-20 31 $0 $24,960
145 Jean-Julien Rojer Netherlands 3 57-37 46 $0 $24,415
146 Steve Darcis Belgium 7-7 15 $0 $23,960
147 Edouard Roger-Vasselin France 2 43-28 32 $0 $22,231
148 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga France 4 29-4 10 $0 $21,760
149 Lukas Rosol Czechia 10 107-38 48 $0 $20,909
150 Albert Costa Spain 3-6 7 $0 $19,780
151 Marcelo Melo Brazil 9 79-47 56 $0 $19,767
152 Leonardo Mayer Argentina 2 45-32 35 $0 $18,120
153 Andrey Golubev Kazakhstan 2 67-40 42 $0 $16,900
154 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi Pakistan 2 36-26 34 $0 $15,330
155 Adrian Mannarino France 2 39-33 36 $0 $14,797
156 John McEnroe United States 1 5-1 2 $0 $12,510
157 Ivan Dodig Croatia 8 79-27 36 $0 $12,317
158 Matwe Middelkoop Netherlands 2 56-37 42 $0 $10,751
159 Philipp Oswald Austria 5 51-39 46 $0 $10,639
160 Jan-Michael Gambill United States 3-3 4 $0 $10,280
161 Filip Polasek Slovakia 6 65-27 33 $0 $9,893
162 Malek Jaziri Tunisia 1 23-29 31 $0 $9,824
163 Kevin Anderson South Africa 2 32-16 19 $0 $8,910
164 Aleksandr Nedovyesov Kazakhstan 5 54-38 44 $0 $8,860
165 Sargis Sargsian Armenia 0-2 5 $0 $8,550
166 Andres Molteni Argentina 1 51-55 56 $0 $8,456
167 Gustavo Kuerten Brazil 3-5 6 $0 $7,525
168 Yuichi Sugita Japan 1 28-15 17 $0 $7,465
169 Illya Marchenko Ukraine 1 26-19 20 $0 $7,439
170 Gastao Elias Portugal 8-8 9 $0 $7,379
171 Thomaz Bellucci Brazil 1 37-33 34 $0 $7,018
172 Mikhail Kukushkin Kazakhstan 21-19 21 $0 $6,897
173 Andrea Arnaboldi Italy 23-25 25 $0 $6,316
174 Galo Blanco Spain 1-1 3 $0 $6,180
175 Matthew Ebden Australia 1 25-32 33 $0 $5,341
176 Fabrice Martin France 24-27 27 $0 $5,237
177 Kei Nishikori Japan 1 19-12 13 $0 $5,226
178 Michael Venus New Zealand 3-10 10 $0 $4,129
179 Albert Ramos-Vinolas Spain 12-17 18 $0 $3,775
180 Peter Gojowczyk Germany 20-20 20 $0 $3,654
181 John Isner United States 12-7 7 $0 $3,570
182 Juan Sebastian Cabal Colombia 1 15-14 15 $0 $3,259
183 Robert Farah Colombia 2-14 14 $0 $2,847
184 Martin Klizan Slovakia 3-8 8 $0 $2,796
185 Hicham Arazi Morocco 9-5 5 $0 $2,530
186 Sjeng Schalken Netherlands 3-1 1 $0 $2,510
187 Roberto Bautista Agut Spain 7-9 9 $0 $2,071
188 Pedro Sousa Portugal 9-8 9 $0 $1,883
189 Bruno Soares Brazil 0-3 3 $0 $1,760
190 Nikola Mektic Croatia 2-7 7 $0 $1,629
191 Miguel Reyes-Varela Mexico 1 14-4 5 $0 $1,540
192 Daniel Evans Great Britain 4-8 8 $0 $1,522
193 Thomas Fabbiano Italy 0-1 2 $0 $1,426
194 Attila Balazs Hungary 1 6-5 6 $0 $1,053
195 Daniel Dutra da Silva Brazil 1 8-3 4 $0 $1,013
196 Anders Jarryd Sweden 0-1 1 $0 $1,000
197 Pat Cash Australia 0-2 2 $0 $975
198 Ronald Agenor Haiti 0-2 3 $0 $780
199 Andrej Martin Slovakia 0-5 5 $0 $686
200 Treat Huey Philippines 1-2 3 $0 $551
201 Radu Albot Moldova 3-5 5 $0 $546
202 Stefano Pescosolido Italy 1 5-1 2 $0 $515
203 Guido Pella Argentina 3-3 3 $0 $498
204 Marc-Kevin Goellner Germany 0-2 2 $0 $450
205 Ariel Behar Uruguay 1-5 5 $0 $436
206 Tim Puetz Germany 4-2 2 $0 $365
207 Ricardas Berankis Lithuania 1-2 2 $0 $318
208 Hendrik Dreekmann Germany 1 4-0 1 $0 $315
209 Emilio Gomez Ecuador 0-4 4 $0 $298
210 Roman Jebavy Czechia 2-2 2 $0 $248
211 Evgeny Donskoy Russia 0-1 1 $0 $180
212 Henri Laaksonen Switzerland 0-2 2 $0 $180
213 Roberto Quiroz Ecuador 0-1 1 $0 $180
214 Alessandro Giannessi Italy 0-1 1 $0 $176
215 Joao Sousa Portugal 1-1 1 $0 $135
216 Guillermo Perez-Roldan Argentina 0-2 2 $0 $118
217 Steve Johnson United States 0-1 1 $0 $118
218 Facundo Bagnis Argentina 1-1 1 $0 $90
219 Jordi Burillo Spain 1-1 1 $0 $90
220 Tomislav Brkic Bosnia and Herzegovina 0-1 1 $0 $90

Where 2006 sits

Every season the tour has paid, in order

55 seasons

2006 is the 25th biggest season of the 55 on the chart.

Which countries won the 2006 money

The fifteen biggest flags on the 2006 list

58 countries paid

# Country Players Titles Share Prize money
01 Spain 22 33 14.6% $10,236,168$10.2m
02 Switzerland 3 13 12.7% $8,848,785$8.8m
03 United States 17 24 9.1% $6,360,325$6.4m
04 France 18 36 8.4% $5,876,458$5.9m
05 Russia 8 9 6.7% $4,705,112$4.7m
06 Argentina 18 30 6.6% $4,592,384$4.6m
07 Croatia 6 19 4.9% $3,420,365$3.4m
08 Germany 14 23 4.8% $3,372,500$3.4m
09 Czechia 7 16 3.8% $2,621,014$2.6m
10 Sweden 4 10 2.9% $2,029,560$2.0m
11 Belgium 5 2 2.9% $2,002,340$2.0m
12 Chile 2 1 2.3% $1,639,510$1.6m
13 Italy 11 10 2.3% $1,626,668$1.6m
14 Great Britain 5 3 1.9% $1,325,008
15 Cyprus 1 1 1.7% $1,155,495

58 countries had a player paid in 2006, and the top three of them took 36.4% 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 2006?

Roger Federer, $8,343,885 from 22 events, with 12 titles and a 99-8 record.

How much prize money did tennis pay out in 2006?

$69,881,191 across the 220 players on this list, the 25th biggest season of the 55 the list covers. The season is up 3.7% on 2005, and is the 25th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

How many tennis players earned a million dollars in 2006?

14 of them. The top ten took 36.2% of everything paid out that season.

What share of 2006 prize money came from the grand slams?

35.0%. The four majors paid $24,431,145 of the $69,881,191 won that season.

Which country won the most tennis prize money in 2006?

Spain, $10,236,168 across 22 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 2006. 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 2006

The 2005 money list · The 2007 money list

Every season

By era

The 2006 top sixty

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