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TENNIS · 268 PLAYERS PAID

The 2009 tennis prize money list

$95,295,361 won on court in 2009, split between 268 players. Roger Federer took $8,768,112 of it.

Every player the tour paid in 2009, 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 11.8% on 2008, and is the 18th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

PAID OUT $95.3m
TOP EARNER $8.8m
PLAYERS PAID 268
OVER $1M 19
FROM THE MAJORS 29.2%

The twenty biggest earners of 2009

Prize money won in the 2009 season

Top ten hold 44.1%

Roger Federer $8.8m Rafael Nadal $6.5m Novak Djokovic $5.5m Juan Martin del Potro $4.8m Andy Murray $4.4m Nikolay Davydenko $3.7m Andy Roddick $2.5m Robin Soderling $2.3m Fernando Verdasco $1.9m Jo-Wilfried Tsonga $1.8m Fernando Gonzalez $1.5m Gael Monfils $1.3m Radek Stepanek $1.3m Tommy Robredo $1.3m Marin Cilic $1.2m Gilles Simon $1.1m Daniel Nestor $1.1m David Ferrer $1.0m Mikhail Youzhny $1.0m Tommy Haas $946k

Ten players out of 268 took 44.1% 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

2009 against 2008, for the ten biggest earners of 2009

2008 to 2009

# Player 2008 2009 Change
01 Roger Federer Switzerland $5,886,880 $8,768,112 +48.9%
02 Rafael Nadal Spain $6,773,776 $6,466,515 -4.5%
03 Novak Djokovic Serbia $5,689,078 $5,476,472 -3.7%
04 Juan Martin del Potro Argentina $1,322,499 $4,753,088 +259.4%
05 Andy Murray Great Britain $3,705,650 $4,421,058 +19.3%
06 Nikolay Davydenko Russia $2,317,085 $3,659,161 +57.9%
07 Andy Roddick United States $1,337,890 $2,478,720 +85.3%
08 Robin Soderling Sweden $1,059,969 $2,313,786 +118.3%
09 Fernando Verdasco Spain $977,959 $1,916,630 +96.0%
10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga France $1,695,139 $1,818,551 +7.3%

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 2008 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 2009

Ranked by prize money won that season

268 players

# Player Titles W-L Events From majors Prize money
001 Roger Federer Switzerland 4 69-14 19 $4,360,909 $8,768,112$8.8m
002 Rafael Nadal Spain 6 85-19 26 $1,793,587 $6,466,515$6.5m
003 Novak Djokovic Serbia 5 95-24 29 $705,166 $5,476,472$5.5m
004 Juan Martin del Potro Argentina 3 72-21 26 $2,373,382 $4,753,088$4.8m
005 Andy Murray Great Britain 6 78-19 27 $715,502 $4,421,058$4.4m
006 Nikolay Davydenko Russia 5 70-25 29 $318,818 $3,659,161$3.7m
007 Andy Roddick United States 2 65-17 21 $1,091,054 $2,478,720$2.5m
008 Robin Soderling Sweden 2 71-30 34 $1,025,971 $2,313,786$2.3m
009 Fernando Verdasco Spain 1 75-37 39 $628,267 $1,916,630$1.9m
010 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga France 5 83-32 42 $357,010 $1,818,551$1.8m
011 Fernando Gonzalez Chile 1 55-27 29 $684,211 $1,485,472$1.5m
012 Gael Monfils France 1 48-23 24 $329,856 $1,290,794
013 Radek Stepanek Czechia 3 61-30 39 $264,093 $1,288,156
014 Tommy Robredo Spain 3 87-44 48 $423,457 $1,273,807
015 Marin Cilic Croatia 2 57-26 31 $378,355 $1,210,376
016 Gilles Simon France 1 59-44 41 $318,940 $1,128,734
017 Daniel Nestor Canada 9 68-17 27 $275,118 $1,111,825
018 David Ferrer Spain 62-37 40 $185,473 $1,032,799
019 Mikhail Youzhny Russia 2 60-41 44 $99,352 $1,026,149
020 Tommy Haas Germany 2 44-22 24 $528,802 $946,095
021 Jurgen Melzer Austria 3 75-54 57 $197,973 $866,530
022 Ivan Ljubicic Croatia 1 42-30 32 $91,637 $865,339
023 Philipp Kohlschreiber Germany 1 59-40 44 $212,943 $834,733
024 Nicolas Almagro Spain 1 42-39 40 $203,190 $834,306
025 Viktor Troicki Serbia 2 55-42 45 $150,896 $772,781
026 Stan Wawrinka Switzerland 1 48-28 30 $198,093 $768,844
027 Tomas Berdych Czechia 1 55-39 45 $216,177 $765,509
028 Julien Benneteau France 2 51-41 42 $122,892 $749,269
029 Juan Carlos Ferrero Spain 1 38-21 24 $307,707 $689,963
030 Sam Querrey United States 1 51-37 38 $174,494 $689,661
031 Juan Monaco Argentina 48-45 46 $106,483 $689,639
032 Lleyton Hewitt Australia 1 36-22 23 $293,253 $682,947
033 Jeremy Chardy France 1 50-54 54 $127,686 $676,892
034 Mardy Fish United States 3 55-28 31 $169,747 $662,937
035 Janko Tipsarevic Serbia 1 46-36 39 $141,765 $661,032
036 Albert Montanes Spain 2 46-44 46 $121,377 $655,954
037 Paul-Henri Mathieu France 33-40 40 $134,265 $646,721
038 Igor Andreev Russia 38-44 44 $213,718 $643,208
039 Victor Hanescu Romania 37-46 45 $199,597 $627,945
040 Leander Paes India 2 33-17 18 $470,532 $592,774
041 Andreas Seppi Italy 1 42-49 48 $157,570 $591,455
042 James Blake United States 40-30 29 $193,488 $567,875
043 Ivo Karlovic Croatia 32-31 33 $246,931 $566,891
044 Feliciano Lopez Spain 1 38-42 46 $107,761 $563,054
045 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez Spain 1 36-39 39 $129,669 $550,859
046 Marcel Granollers Spain 4 76-55 59 $124,669 $539,840
047 Lukasz Kubot Poland 3 87-47 49 $112,907 $495,196
048 Igor Kunitsyn Russia 33-55 55 $124,749 $482,888
049 Jose Acasuso Argentina 31-35 35 $136,689 $468,897
050 Pablo Cuevas Uruguay 6 103-53 60 $102,562 $467,827
051 Rainer Schuettler Germany 31-43 41 $89,930 $465,369
052 Mischa Zverev Germany 1 41-47 48 $104,852 $464,008
053 Dmitry Tursunov Russia 3 35-30 34 $113,199 $457,040
054 Michael Llodra France 1 45-36 38 $112,340 $456,058
055 John Isner United States 1 51-34 35 $124,241 $452,989
056 Marat Safin Russia 25-34 35 $108,647 $450,802
057 Florent Serra France 31-44 43 $96,019 $449,133
058 Marc Gicquel France 2 42-47 48 $153,344 $446,865
059 Simone Bolelli Italy 32-43 45 $146,411 $437,030
060 Richard Gasquet France 31-19 19 $53,369 $430,936
061 Benjamin Becker Germany 5 63-44 49 $57,621 $430,897
062 Arnaud Clement France 3 58-50 52 $91,565 $424,468
063 Christophe Rochus Belgium 25-52 53 $126,652 $410,566
064 Thomaz Bellucci Brazil 3 52-37 41 $70,080 $406,778
065 Fabio Fognini Italy 1 45-35 38 $112,680 $395,682
066 Dudi Sela Israel 39-36 36 $192,379 $393,991
067 Marcos Baghdatis Cyprus 4 43-24 33 $80,309 $392,971
068 Max Mirnyi Belarus 1 31-19 20 $76,412 $389,573
069 Fabrice Santoro France 1 32-38 39 $123,696 $384,041
070 Potito Starace Italy 2 57-49 52 $108,234 $381,218
071 Sergiy Stakhovsky Ukraine 1 66-50 54 $85,346 $380,583
072 Ernests Gulbis Latvia 1 32-34 38 $103,490 $352,289
073 Teymuraz Gabashvili Russia 1 48-51 53 $96,545 $337,836
074 Robby Ginepri United States 1 18-28 27 $96,019 $331,991
075 Leonardo Mayer Argentina 2 39-37 39 $103,931 $323,545
076 Nicolas Kiefer Germany 1 28-26 29 $83,049 $321,327
077 Yen-Hsun Lu Chinese Taipei 3 37-37 40 $117,146 $301,863
078 Rajeev Ram United States 8 83-51 58 $71,415 $301,799
079 Olivier Rochus Belgium 1 55-38 40 $57,408 $300,611
080 Daniel Gimeno-Traver Spain 2 51-47 49 $106,324 $296,687
081 Denis Istomin Uzbekistan 2 58-49 55 $125,940 $296,628
082 David Nalbandian Argentina 1 21-10 11 $20,891 $286,285
083 Alberto Martin Spain 2 40-43 45 $70,819 $282,071
084 Maximo Gonzalez Argentina 3 59-36 40 $117,427 $268,664
085 Jarkko Nieminen Finland 1 47-33 37 $57,314 $261,515
086 Horacio Zeballos Argentina 11 105-41 52 $47,924 $253,637
087 Andrey Golubev Kazakhstan 1 35-43 44 $89,123 $253,447
088 Nicolas Lapentti Ecuador 1 44-34 39 $98,318 $245,507
089 Juan Ignacio Chela Argentina 1 54-31 33 $69,477 $241,337
090 Steve Darcis Belgium 33-38 40 $85,598 $240,734
091 Bjorn Phau Germany 40-37 36 $54,145 $238,272
092 Taylor Dent United States 2 38-23 25 $78,813 $226,642
093 Bruno Soares Brazil 1 36-29 30 $70,088 $225,563
094 Kristof Vliegen Belgium 2 30-20 22 $66,598 $200,742
095 Mario Ancic Croatia 15-9 11 $34,369 $197,819
096 Nicolas Massu Chile 1 41-46 48 $66,384 $194,562
097 Michael Berrer Germany 3 54-34 36 $42,699 $187,358
098 Stefan Koubek Austria 28-35 35 $83,518 $177,958
099 Martin Damm Czechia 3 29-22 25 $36,412 $174,262
100 Filip Polasek Slovakia 1 38-32 35 $25,587 $171,623
101 Pablo Andujar Spain 39-51 51 $65,123 $171,305
102 Marcelo Melo Brazil 1 36-32 34 $25,636 $167,844
103 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo Spain 7 79-54 61 $26,500 $163,530
104 Alejandro Falla Colombia 4 73-37 42 $39,547 $156,903
105 Florian Mayer Germany 2 63-27 29 $20,891 $148,208
106 Mikhail Kukushkin Kazakhstan 1 44-30 32 $15,345 $146,935
107 Guillermo Canas Argentina 13-21 21 $56,217 $144,951
108 Nicolas Mahut France 2 48-35 36 $45,915 $144,292
109 Dominik Hrbaty Slovakia 1 65-44 45 $41,109 $138,398
110 Andrei Pavel Romania 12-17 17 $109,470 $134,317
111 Illya Marchenko Ukraine 1 56-38 39 $13,324 $125,303
112 Xavier Malisse Belgium 2 57-26 29 $41,630 $124,353
113 Lukas Lacko Slovakia 8 91-35 42 $25,739 $123,187
114 Gilles Muller Luxembourg 13-17 17 $73,114 $119,760
115 Edouard Roger-Vasselin France 2 54-42 45 $33,055 $117,553
116 Kevin Anderson South Africa 3 57-45 48 $34,314 $116,903
117 Agustin Calleri Argentina 9-21 21 $55,048 $115,887
118 Jean-Julien Rojer Netherlands 4 57-35 39 $19,847 $115,592
119 Lukas Rosol Czechia 3 67-56 59 $21,908 $113,369
120 Vincent Spadea United States 16-33 33 $48,592 $104,573
121 Adrian Mannarino France 29-31 31 $57,444 $104,514
122 Paolo Lorenzi Italy 5 68-45 50 $18,921 $98,918
123 Gaston Gaudio Argentina 1 25-23 24 $24,006 $98,254
124 Grigor Dimitrov Bulgaria 2 44-38 40 $23,364 $96,962
125 Santiago Giraldo Colombia 3 57-40 44 $29,942 $96,414
126 Michael Russell United States 4 57-23 27 $8,433 $92,020
127 Rohan Bopanna India 3 62-39 42 $10,711 $82,169
128 Donald Young United States 1 40-34 34 $27,311 $79,441
129 Alexandr Dolgopolov Ukraine 3 44-21 24 $4,019 $79,431
130 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi Pakistan 4 64-39 45 $20,701 $71,730
131 Bernard Tomic Australia 1 15-11 12 $55,140 $71,037
132 Raemon Sluiter Netherlands 1 34-16 17 $0 $70,601
133 Ivan Dodig Croatia 2 55-39 41 $11,643 $65,610
134 Sebastien Grosjean France 8-11 11 $4,971 $64,843
135 Filippo Volandri Italy 33-24 24 $5,332 $58,142
136 Jamie Murray Great Britain 4 30-30 34 $12,532 $57,413
137 Kei Nishikori Japan 4-6 7 $13,074 $51,139
138 Fernando Vicente Spain 38-46 46 $6,119 $45,941
139 Daniel Evans Great Britain 2 43-34 35 $20,739 $45,422
140 Philipp Oswald Austria 7 97-50 56 $0 $42,193
141 Carlos Moya Spain 2-6 6 $13,074 $39,134
142 Federico Delbonis Argentina 2 66-33 34 $0 $39,069
143 Martin Klizan Slovakia 5 76-39 45 $0 $38,931
144 Albert Ramos-Vinolas Spain 3 86-42 45 $0 $38,003
145 Roberto Bautista Agut Spain 2 56-34 36 $0 $37,495
146 Ramon Delgado Paraguay 2 37-27 30 $0 $36,300
147 Luis Horna Peru 17-16 17 $20,176 $33,265
148 Benoit Paire France 1 57-33 34 $15,568 $31,019
149 Andrea Arnaboldi Italy 2 57-46 48 $0 $30,672
150 Raven Klaasen South Africa 52-38 39 $5,625 $28,709
151 Ryan Harrison United States 3 37-29 32 $10,500 $28,120
152 Matwe Middelkoop Netherlands 40-37 37 $4,019 $28,039
153 Carlos Berlocq Argentina 1 32-18 19 $0 $27,943
154 Mariano Zabaleta Argentina 24-26 26 $2,808 $27,014
155 Yuichi Sugita Japan 2 49-38 40 $3,000 $26,418
156 Evgeny Donskoy Russia 1 40-29 30 $0 $25,465
157 Matthew Ebden Australia 7 62-22 29 $7,248 $24,648
158 Nikola Mektic Croatia 6 84-46 52 $0 $23,916
159 Filip Krajinovic Serbia 36-29 29 $0 $22,813
160 Mariano Puerta Argentina 22-24 24 $0 $20,720
161 Milos Raonic Canada 6 67-33 38 $0 $20,247
162 Daniel Dutra da Silva Brazil 1 37-23 24 $5,625 $19,832
163 Vasek Pospisil Canada 11 113-39 50 $0 $19,551
164 Thomas Fabbiano Italy 1 48-51 49 $0 $19,369
165 John Millman Australia 3 62-34 37 $4,019 $18,700
166 Yuki Bhambri India 5 35-11 17 $0 $18,497
167 Malek Jaziri Tunisia 3 59-34 37 $0 $18,429
168 David Goffin Belgium 43-29 29 $0 $18,167
169 Juan Sebastian Cabal Colombia 3 66-33 39 $0 $18,044
170 Guido Pella Argentina 7 86-37 44 $0 $17,225
171 Andrej Martin Slovakia 5 71-46 51 $0 $16,270
172 Andres Molteni Argentina 8 95-46 54 $0 $15,699
173 Facundo Bagnis Argentina 6 83-46 52 $0 $15,363
174 Attila Balazs Hungary 6 73-29 35 $0 $15,221
175 Aljaz Bedene Slovenia 7 74-30 37 $0 $15,065
176 Treat Huey Philippines 4 71-38 45 $0 $14,695
177 Ricardas Berankis Lithuania 63-34 34 $0 $13,578
178 Peter Gojowczyk Germany 1 49-39 40 $0 $13,370
179 Joao Sousa Portugal 3 55-39 44 $0 $13,010
180 Michael Venus New Zealand 2 36-26 28 $5,625 $11,818
181 Roman Jebavy Czechia 6 73-49 55 $0 $11,465
182 Pedro Sousa Portugal 1 52-38 38 $0 $11,319
183 Robin Haase Netherlands 12-2 2 $0 $11,152
184 Steven Diez Canada 1 30-32 33 $0 $10,086
185 Hyung-Taik Lee South Korea 5-11 12 $2,013 $9,678
186 Marco Trungelliti Argentina 2 51-43 45 $0 $9,523
187 Marcelo Arevalo El Salvador 3 58-34 37 $0 $9,475
188 Fabrice Martin France 1 50-45 46 $0 $9,045
189 Kevin Krawietz Germany 4-9 9 $0 $8,875
190 Antony Dupuis France 1 23-16 17 $0 $8,536
191 Nikoloz Basilashvili Georgia 1 28-40 41 $0 $8,334
192 Cedrik-Marcel Stebe Germany 32-34 33 $0 $8,239
193 Alessandro Giannessi Italy 2 52-37 39 $0 $7,690
194 Pablo Carreno Busta Spain 1 38-24 25 $0 $7,496
195 Dusan Lajovic Serbia 1 37-31 32 $0 $7,057
196 Radu Albot Moldova 2 48-42 44 $0 $6,594
197 Emilio Gomez Ecuador 3 33-17 20 $0 $6,474
198 Federico Gaio Italy 1 21-19 20 $0 $5,946
199 Tennys Sandgren United States 12-19 19 $3,000 $5,724
200 Henri Laaksonen Switzerland 1 16-11 13 $0 $5,352
201 Gastao Elias Portugal 23-24 24 $0 $4,758
202 Lorenzo Giustino Italy 1 20-34 35 $0 $4,168
203 Jan-Lennard Struff Germany 22-20 20 $0 $4,073
204 Nikola Cacic Serbia 14-27 27 $0 $3,725
205 Mohamed Safwat Egypt 12-34 34 $0 $3,677
206 Stefano Travaglia Italy 12-26 26 $0 $3,660
207 Ariel Behar Uruguay 26-39 39 $0 $3,499
208 Blaz Rola Slovenia 1 18-18 19 $0 $3,474
209 Austin Krajicek United States 1 20-16 17 $0 $3,441
210 Guido Andreozzi Argentina 23-25 25 $0 $3,401
211 Tomislav Brkic Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 17-22 23 $0 $3,093
212 Andrea Collarini Argentina 12-16 16 $0 $2,786
213 Michael Stich Germany 0-1 1 $0 $2,645
214 Jack Sock United States 1 8-8 9 $0 $2,548
215 Diego Schwartzman Argentina 14-19 19 $0 $2,536
216 Roberto Quiroz Ecuador 1 15-18 19 $0 $2,522
217 Thomas Johansson Sweden 1-3 3 $0 $2,375
218 Filip Horansky Slovakia 0-4 4 $0 $2,347
219 Jan-Michael Gambill United States 7-6 6 $0 $2,310
220 Denis Kudla United States 10-10 10 $0 $2,166
221 Renzo Olivo Argentina 11-13 13 $0 $1,676
222 Steve Johnson United States 5-8 8 $0 $1,668
223 Yannick Hanfmann Germany 4-11 11 $0 $1,518
224 Paradorn Srichaphan Thailand 0-1 1 $0 $1,325
225 Sam Weissborn Austria 1 11-10 11 $0 $1,301
226 Norbert Gombos Slovakia 4-13 13 $0 $1,266
227 Davide Sanguinetti Italy 2-5 5 $0 $1,103
228 Justin Gimelstob United States 1-1 1 $0 $1,100
229 Wesley Koolhof Netherlands 6-7 7 $0 $1,012
230 Albano Olivetti France 1-7 7 $0 $1,006
231 Bohdan Ulihrach Czechia 3-3 3 $0 $971
232 James Duckworth Australia 1-7 7 $0 $828
233 Jason Kubler Australia 2-5 5 $0 $798
234 Yasutaka Uchiyama Japan 4-5 5 $0 $695
235 Dimitar Kuzmanov Bulgaria 5-4 4 $0 $683
236 Damir Dzumhur Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-6 6 $0 $584
237 Jozef Kovalik Slovakia 1-2 2 $0 $574
238 Liam Broady Great Britain 3-7 7 $0 $566
239 Francisco Clavet Spain 0-1 1 $0 $549
240 Alex Bolt Australia 2-5 5 $0 $547
241 Aleksandr Nedovyesov Kazakhstan 3-1 1 $0 $520
242 Guillermo Coria Argentina 0-1 1 $0 $520
243 Federico Coria Argentina 2-6 6 $0 $518
244 Jiri Vesely Czechia 1-6 6 $0 $442
245 Albert Portas Spain 1-1 1 $0 $394
246 Nicolas Barrientos Colombia 2-4 4 $0 $366
247 Thiago Monteiro Brazil 2-3 3 $0 $366
248 Hugo Dellien Bolivia 1-3 3 $0 $326
249 John-Patrick Smith Australia 1-1 1 $0 $320
250 Franco Agamenone Italy 1-4 4 $0 $318
251 Egor Gerasimov Belarus 1-3 3 $0 $311
252 Jeff Tarango United States 1-1 1 $0 $300
253 Miguel Reyes-Varela Mexico 1-2 2 $0 $300
254 Pierre-Hugues Herbert France 0-3 3 $0 $294
255 Hugo Nys Monaco 3-1 1 $0 $247
256 Nicolas Kicker Argentina 1-4 4 $0 $208
257 Mate Pavic Croatia 1-1 1 $0 $200
258 Joao Domingues Portugal 0-2 2 $0 $176
259 Mackenzie McDonald United States 0-1 1 $0 $176
260 Mitchell Krueger United States 0-2 2 $0 $176
261 Neal Skupski Great Britain 1-3 2 $0 $139
262 Ivan Sabanov Serbia 1-1 1 $0 $135
263 Matej Sabanov Serbia 1-2 2 $0 $135
264 Marc-Kevin Goellner Germany 2-2 2 $0 $130
265 Aslan Karatsev Russia 0-2 2 $0 $118
266 Constant Lestienne France 0-1 1 $0 $118
267 Marton Fucsovics Hungary 0-1 1 $0 $118
268 Mats Moraing Germany 0-2 2 $0 $118

Where 2009 sits

Every season the tour has paid, in order

55 seasons

2009 is the 18th biggest season of the 55 on the chart.

Which countries won the 2009 money

The fifteen biggest flags on the 2009 list

60 countries paid

# Country Players Titles Share Prize money
01 Spain 21 37 16.4% $15,606,332$15.6m
02 Switzerland 3 6 10.0% $9,542,308$9.5m
03 France 22 24 9.8% $9,383,682$9.4m
04 Argentina 26 48 8.2% $7,828,385$7.8m
05 Russia 9 12 7.4% $7,082,667$7.1m
06 Serbia 8 9 7.3% $6,944,150$6.9m
07 United States 22 28 6.3% $6,036,377$6.0m
08 Great Britain 5 12 4.7% $4,524,598$4.5m
09 Germany 17 16 4.3% $4,075,235$4.1m
10 Croatia 7 11 3.1% $2,930,151$2.9m
11 Czechia 7 16 2.5% $2,354,174$2.4m
12 Sweden 2 2 2.4% $2,316,161$2.3m
13 Italy 14 16 2.1% $2,035,371$2.0m
14 Chile 2 2 1.8% $1,680,034$1.7m
15 Belgium 6 5 1.4% $1,295,173

60 countries had a player paid in 2009, and the top three of them took 36.2% 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 2009?

Roger Federer, $8,768,112 from 19 events, with 4 titles and a 69-14 record.

How much prize money did tennis pay out in 2009?

$95,295,361 across the 268 players on this list, the 18th biggest season of the 55 the list covers. The season is up 11.8% on 2008, and is the 18th biggest of the 55 seasons we hold.

How many tennis players earned a million dollars in 2009?

19 of them. The top ten took 44.1% of everything paid out that season.

What share of 2009 prize money came from the grand slams?

29.2%. The four majors paid $27,821,866 of the $95,295,361 won that season.

Which country won the most tennis prize money in 2009?

Spain, $15,606,332 across 21 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 2009. 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 2009

The 2008 money list · The 2010 money list

Every season

By era

The 2009 top sixty

Elsewhere in tennis