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TENNIS · PRIZE MONEY · AGE 16

Tennis prize money at 16

Michael Chang won $153,553 in 1988, the year he turned 16. That is the most any of the 696 men we hold won at 16, across 236 seasons. The median season at 16 paid $497.

MOST AT 16 $153,553 Michael Chang, 1988
MEDIAN SEASON $497 26th of 27 ages
SEASONS 236 none at seven figures

The twenty biggest seasons at 16

Prize money won in the calendar year a player turned 16, singles and doubles together

Michael Chang (1988) $154k Richard Gasquet (2002) $62k Stefan Kozlov (2014) $46k Donald Young (2005) $45k Franco Davin (1986) $26k Rafael Nadal (2002) $24k Andre Agassi (1986) $23k Frances Tiafoe (2014) $22k Ryan Harrison (2008) $20k Martin Damm (2019) $18k Felix Auger-Aliassime (2016) $17k Michael Mmoh (2014) $14k Carlos Alcaraz (2019) $12k Juncheng Shang (2021) $11k Alexander Zverev (2013) $9,215 Bernard Tomic (2008) $8,926 Martin Landaluce (2022) $8,458 Lleyton Hewitt (1997) $7,919 Andy Murray (2003) $7,609 Gastao Elias (2006) $7,379

Every season at 16

Ranked by prize money. Win-loss is singles.

236 seasons
Every season a tennis player we hold had in the year he turned 16, ranked by prize money won, with the year and his singles win-loss record.
# PLAYER YEAR PRIZE MONEY W-L
1 Michael Chang 1988 $153,553 23-13
2 Richard Gasquet 2002 $62,085 22-8
3 Stefan Kozlov 2014 $45,638 13-15
4 Donald Young 2005 $44,795 2-9
5 Franco Davin 1986 $25,541 14-10
6 Rafael Nadal 2002 $23,975 42-6
7 Andre Agassi 1986 $22,977 11-9
8 Frances Tiafoe 2014 $21,853 8-8
9 Ryan Harrison 2008 $20,262 5-10
10 Martin Damm 2019 $18,022 4-4
11 Felix Auger-Aliassime 2016 $16,879 21-13
12 Michael Mmoh 2014 $13,810 11-6
13 Carlos Alcaraz 2019 $12,212 18-10
14 Juncheng Shang 2021 $10,854 17-4
15 Alexander Zverev 2013 $9,215 13-13
16 Bernard Tomic 2008 $8,926 14-13
17 Martin Landaluce 2022 $8,458 0-2
18 Lleyton Hewitt 1997 $7,919 1-2
19 Andy Murray 2003 $7,609 12-7
20 Gastao Elias 2006 $7,379 4-5
21 Corentin Moutet 2015 $7,075 11-10
22 Filip Krajinovic 2008 $6,095 24-19
23 Thomas Enqvist 1990 $5,270 2-2
24 Mario Ancic 2000 $5,259 17-6
25 Thanasi Kokkinakis 2012 $4,996 12-15
26 Andrey Rublev 2013 $4,946 14-6
27 Tommy Robredo 1998 $4,777 10-4
28 Magnus Norman 1992 $4,230 0-1
29 Shintaro Mochizuki 2019 $4,130 13-8
30 Yuki Bhambri 2008 $3,970 6-7
31 Joao Fonseca 2022 $3,960 5-4
32 Denis Shapovalov 2015 $3,643 5-6
33 Sebastien Lareau 1989 $3,614 0-2
34 Santiago Rodriguez Taverna 2015 $3,300 15-11
35 Andrei Medvedev 1990 $3,090 0-1
36 Holger Rune 2019 $2,973 6-10
37 Ivan Ljubicic 1995 $2,935 -
38 Ivo Karlovic 1995 $2,935 -
39 Novak Djokovic 2003 $2,704 11-5
40 Taylor Dent 1997 $2,520 0-1
41 Mischa Zverev 2003 $2,356 7-8
42 Filip Horansky 2009 $2,347 0-2
43 Xavier Malisse 1996 $2,260 1-1
44 Guillermo Coria 1998 $2,174 4-4
45 Zhizhen Zhang 2012 $2,162 1-5
46 Daniel Altmaier 2014 $2,130 9-10
47 Cristian Garin 2012 $2,113 8-8
48 Juan Martin del Potro 2004 $1,962 6-9
49 Stefanos Tsitsipas 2014 $1,794 5-9
50 Dmitry Popko 2012 $1,790 3-8
51 Denis Kudla 2008 $1,774 3-3
52 Henri Laaksonen 2008 $1,710 2-3
53 Nicolas Almagro 2001 $1,643 7-5
54 Nikoloz Basilashvili 2008 $1,570 4-5
55 Nicolas Mejia 2016 $1,568 1-5
56 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 2019 $1,526 2-5
57 Daniel Evans 2006 $1,522 0-6
58 David Nalbandian 1998 $1,411 0-2
59 Feliciano Lopez 1997 $1,410 1-1
60 Mikael Ymer 2014 $1,370 5-5
61 Santiago Giraldo 2003 $1,347 1-6
62 Federico Gaio 2008 $1,336 2-5
63 Rudolf Molleker 2016 $1,310 6-6
64 Mikhail Youzhny 1998 $1,293 2-4
65 Yoshihito Nishioka 2011 $1,276 5-3
66 Quentin Halys 2012 $1,244 4-4
67 Hendrik Dreekmann 1991 $1,225 0-2
68 Thiago Monteiro 2010 $1,209 5-7
69 Adrian Andreev 2017 $1,186 0-1
70 Teymuraz Gabashvili 2001 $1,170 5-3
71 Marc Polmans 2013 $1,136 2-5
72 Alexandre Muller 2013 $1,108 4-6
73 Tung-Lin Wu 2014 $1,106 0-1
74 Nicolas Escude 1992 $1,095 -
75 Grigor Dimitrov 2007 $1,061 3-4
76 Miomir Kecmanovic 2015 $1,058 4-5
77 Goran Ivanisevic 1987 $1,040 -
78 Andrea Arnaboldi 2003 $999 0-3
79 Jakub Mensik 2021 $985 0-2
80 Ernests Gulbis 2004 $962 1-5
81 Liam Broady 2010 $950 4-5
82 Karim Alami 1989 $947 1-1
83 Luca Van Assche 2020 $936 2-4
84 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2001 $896 3-2
85 Christian Ruud 1988 $895 0-1
86 Todd Woodbridge 1987 $860 1-1
87 Coleman Wong 2020 $838 2-4
88 Otto Virtanen 2017 $826 1-2
89 Robert Farah 2003 $819 2-3
90 Stefano Napolitano 2011 $817 1-3
91 Borna Coric 2012 $800 3-3
92 Fabrice Santoro 1988 $798 2-1
93 Jason Kubler 2009 $798 0-3
94 Roberto Bautista Agut 2004 $787 2-3
95 Sergiy Stakhovsky 2002 $786 0-2
96 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 2015 $770 3-5
97 Zachary Svajda 2018 $770 1-3
98 Daniel Dutra da Silva 2004 $762 1-5
99 Dino Prizmic 2021 $756 0-3
100 Robin Soderling 2000 $749 0-2
101 Stan Wawrinka 2001 $700 1-1
102 Bernabe Zapata Miralles 2013 $688 0-5
103 Dimitar Kuzmanov 2009 $683 2-3
104 Casper Ruud 2014 $680 0-4
105 Frederico Ferreira Silva 2011 $670 1-5
106 Roger Federer 1997 $650 0-0
107 Marin Cilic 2004 $645 1-1
108 Dudi Sela 2001 $640 0-0
109 James Duckworth 2008 $611 2-2
110 Adrian Mannarino 2004 $570 2-1
111 Philipp Kohlschreiber 1999 $566 1-2
112 Alex Bolt 2009 $547 0-2
113 Marcelo Melo 1999 $526 0-2
114 Andrej Martin 2005 $520 -
115 Yu Hsiou Hsu 2015 $510 1-2
116 Thiago Agustin Tirante 2017 $510 1-4
117 Guido Pella 2006 $498 2-2
118 Tomas Berdych 2001 $497 1-2
119 Alex de Minaur 2015 $496 2-2
120 Marcel Granollers 2002 $476 0-1
121 Alejandro Tabilo 2013 $452 1-2
122 Kyle Edmund 2011 $444 2-4
123 Sebastian Korda 2016 $444 1-3
124 Jiri Vesely 2009 $442 0-3
125 Marton Fucsovics 2008 $436 1-3
126 Alberto Martin 1994 $430 1-1
127 Mariano Zabaleta 1994 $430 1-1
128 Arthur Gea 2021 $430 1-1
129 Juan Pablo Ficovich 2013 $424 0-2
130 Adam Walton 2015 $420 0-2
131 Chun-Hsin Tseng 2017 $420 1-3
132 Duje Ajdukovic 2017 $420 0-2
133 Jason Stoltenberg 1986 $419 2-1
134 Fabio Fognini 2003 $416 0-2
135 Emilio Gomez 2007 $416 0-2
136 Roberto Quiroz 2008 $416 1-3
137 Thiago Seyboth Wild 2016 $415 0-2
138 Andrea Collarini 2008 $408 1-3
139 Lucas Miedler 2012 $408 1-3
140 Hugo Gaston 2016 $408 2-2
141 Marcos Baghdatis 2001 $407 1-2
142 Elias Ymer 2012 $401 0-2
143 Roman Jebavy 2005 $373 0-1
144 Andrea Pellegrino 2013 $366 0-2
145 Martin Klizan 2005 $360 -
146 Tomas Martin Etcheverry 2015 $356 0-2
147 Guido Andreozzi 2007 $354 0-3
148 Hamad Medjedovic 2019 $354 1-1
149 Daniel Elahi Galan 2012 $352 1-4
150 Sebastian Ofner 2012 $352 0-2
151 Nicolas Massu 1995 $350 0-1
152 Fernando Gonzalez 1996 $350 0-1
153 Jurij Rodionov 2015 $344 2-2
154 Hugo Dellien 2009 $326 0-2
155 Albert Ramos-Vinolas 2004 $318 1-2
156 Ricardas Berankis 2006 $318 1-2
157 Franco Agamenone 2009 $318 1-2
158 Pedro Cachin 2011 $318 1-2
159 Jan Choinski 2012 $318 1-2
160 Patrick Kypson 2015 $312 1-2
161 Harold Mayot 2018 $312 0-2
162 William Blumberg 2014 $284 0-1
163 Tomas Barrios Vera 2013 $280 0-2
164 Reilly Opelka 2013 $276 1-2
165 Sebastian Baez 2016 $276 1-2
166 Rinky Hijikata 2017 $270 -
167 Christophe Rochus 1994 $260 0-1
168 Jenson Brooksby 2016 $260 1-2
169 Lorenzo Musetti 2018 $260 0-1
170 Kenneth Carlsen 1989 $258 -
171 Alex Corretja 1990 $255 0-0
172 Timofey Skatov 2017 $252 0-1
173 Ignacio Buse 2020 $250 -
174 Carlos Taberner 2013 $244 0-2
175 Richard Fromberg 1986 $243 1-1
176 Lorenzo Giustino 2007 $236 0-2
177 Stefano Travaglia 2007 $236 0-2
178 Steven Diez 2007 $236 0-2
179 Renzo Olivo 2008 $236 0-2
180 Sumit Nagal 2013 $236 1-1
181 Genaro Alberto Olivieri 2014 $236 1-1
182 Camilo Ugo Carabelli 2015 $232 0-1
183 Greg Rusedski 1989 $212 0-1
184 Altug Celikbilek 2012 $208 0-1
185 Pedro Martinez 2013 $208 1-1
186 Kacper Zuk 2015 $208 1-1
187 Zizou Bergs 2015 $208 0-3
188 Leonardo Mayer 2003 $200 1-1
189 Sam Querrey 2003 $200 1-1
190 Mate Pavic 2009 $200 1-1
191 Alexander Ritschard 2010 $200 1-1
192 Ernesto Escobedo 2012 $200 1-1
193 Antoine Hoang 2011 $195 -
194 Max Purcell 2014 $192 -
195 Rajeev Ram 2000 $185 -
196 Ariel Behar 2005 $180 -
197 Evgeny Donskoy 2006 $180 -
198 Fernando Verdasco 1999 $176 0-1
199 Juan Sebastian Cabal 2002 $176 0-1
200 Yuichi Sugita 2004 $176 0-1
201 Alessandro Giannessi 2006 $176 0-1
202 Joao Domingues 2009 $176 0-1
203 Lucas Pouille 2010 $176 1-2
204 Botic van de Zandschulp 2011 $176 0-1
205 Karen Khachanov 2012 $176 0-1
206 Geoffrey Blancaneaux 2014 $172 1-1
207 Zsombor Piros 2015 $172 1-1
208 Alexander Bublik 2013 $168 0-1
209 Emil Ruusuvuori 2015 $168 0-1
210 Tim van Rijthoven 2013 $156 0-1
211 Yibing Wu 2015 $156 0-1
212 Jack Draper 2017 $156 0-1
213 Juan Manuel Cerundolo 2017 $156 0-2
214 Dmitry Tursunov 1998 $150 1-1
215 Ilya Ivashka 2010 $135 -
216 Pablo Andujar 2002 $118 0-1
217 Pablo Cuevas 2002 $118 0-1
218 Miguel Reyes-Varela 2003 $118 0-1
219 Andres Molteni 2004 $118 0-1
220 Kevin Krawietz 2008 $118 0-2
221 Aslan Karatsev 2009 $118 0-1
222 Cem Ilkel 2011 $118 0-1
223 Laslo Djere 2011 $118 0-1
224 Daniel Gimeno-Traver 2001 $117 0-1
225 Soonwoo Kwon 2013 $108 0-1
226 Alexander Erler 2013 $104 0-1
227 Yosuke Watanuki 2014 $104 0-1
228 Flavio Cobolli 2018 $96 -
229 Mark Philippoussis 1992 $90 -
230 Andreas Seppi 2000 $90 -
231 Facundo Bagnis 2006 $90 -
232 Tomislav Brkic 2006 $90 -
233 Valentin Vacherot 2014 $54 -
234 Emilio Nava 2017 $54 -
235 Roman Andres Burruchaga 2018 $54 -
236 Rafael Jodar 2022 $54 -

The biggest seasons at 16 before 2010

Prize money has grown every decade, so the older seasons are ranked on their own

The five biggest seasons at 16 before 2010, by prize money won.
# PLAYER YEAR PRIZE MONEY
1 Michael Chang 1988 $153,553
2 Richard Gasquet 2002 $62,085
3 Donald Young 2005 $44,795
4 Franco Davin 1986 $25,541
5 Rafael Nadal 2002 $23,975

16 against the ages either side

The median season and the record at each age

0 players peaked at 16
The median season, the biggest season and the number of players whose best season came at that age, for the ages around 16.
AGE MEDIAN MOST PRIZE MONEY PEAKED
15 $290 Michael Chang $25,681 0
16 $497 Michael Chang $153,553 0
17 $1,944 Michael Chang $682,130 0
18 $5,654 Carlos Alcaraz $1,632,678$1.6m 0
19 $16,613 Carlos Alcaraz $10,924,622$10.9m 4

Peaked counts the players whose biggest season in prize money came at that age. Across all 696, the most common age for a best season is 27. The median at 16 is higher than at 15 and lower than at 17.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most prize money a tennis player has won at 16?

Michael Chang won $153,553 in 1988, singles and doubles together.

How much prize money does a tennis player win at 16?

The median season at 16 among the 696 men we hold paid $497. 0 of the 236 seasons at 16 paid a million dollars or more.

Was 16 Michael Chang's best year?

No. His biggest season came in 1995, at 23, when he won $2,655,870.

At what age do tennis players win the most prize money?

The median season is highest at 27. The single biggest season at any age is Carlos Alcaraz's $21,354,778 at 22, in 2025. More of the players we hold had their best season at 27 than at any other age: 72 of them.

Where to next

Every age from 15 to 41

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Tennis prize money by age sets all 27 side by side. Tennis prize money has every event's ladder, and men's vs women's tennis prize money sets the two tours against each other.