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TENNIS · PRIZE MONEY · AGE 17

Tennis prize money at 17

Michael Chang won $682,130 in 1989, the year he turned 17. That is the most any of the 696 men we hold won at 17, across 418 seasons. The median season at 17 paid $1,944.

MOST AT 17 $682,130 Michael Chang, 1989
MEDIAN SEASON $1,944 25th of 27 ages
SEASONS 418 none at seven figures

The twenty biggest seasons at 17

Prize money won in the calendar year a player turned 17, singles and doubles together

Michael Chang (1989) $682k Rafael Nadal (2003) $243k Andre Agassi (1987) $206k Alexander Zverev (2014) $177k Lleyton Hewitt (1998) $136k Frances Tiafoe (2015) $117k Richard Gasquet (2003) $113k Juncheng Shang (2022) $98k Learner Tien (2022) $85k Carlos Alcaraz (2020) $82k Bernard Tomic (2009) $71k Martin Landaluce (2023) $68k Felix Auger-Aliassime (2017) $66k Zachary Svajda (2019) $64k Denis Shapovalov (2016) $60k Pete Sampras (1988) $46k Arthur Fils (2021) $42k Novak Djokovic (2004) $41k Donald Young (2006) $40k Franco Davin (1987) $39k

Every season at 17

Ranked by prize money. Win-loss is singles.

418 seasons
Every season a tennis player we hold had in the year he turned 17, ranked by prize money won, with the year and his singles win-loss record.
# PLAYER YEAR PRIZE MONEY W-L
1 Michael Chang 1989 $682,130 50-17
2 Rafael Nadal 2003 $243,238 43-18
3 Andre Agassi 1987 $205,555 26-17
4 Alexander Zverev 2014 $176,759 34-29
5 Lleyton Hewitt 1998 $135,535 23-14
6 Frances Tiafoe 2015 $117,353 49-26
7 Richard Gasquet 2003 $112,721 36-21
8 Juncheng Shang 2022 $97,654 40-24
9 Learner Tien 2022 $85,206 12-11
10 Carlos Alcaraz 2020 $81,932 39-7
11 Bernard Tomic 2009 $71,037 15-9
12 Martin Landaluce 2023 $67,543 27-27
13 Felix Auger-Aliassime 2017 $66,108 48-20
14 Zachary Svajda 2019 $63,721 6-14
15 Denis Shapovalov 2016 $60,232 34-17
16 Pete Sampras 1988 $46,053 11-13
17 Arthur Fils 2021 $42,002 24-26
18 Novak Djokovic 2004 $40,790 34-12
19 Donald Young 2006 $39,741 13-16
20 Franco Davin 1987 $39,163 16-18
21 Andrei Medvedev 1991 $38,440 5-9
22 Juan Martin del Potro 2005 $38,348 56-20
23 Stefan Kozlov 2015 $37,242 41-27
24 Todd Woodbridge 1988 $36,095 8-9
25 Thomas Enqvist 1991 $35,786 12-10
26 Marat Safin 1997 $34,775 11-6
27 Luca Van Assche 2021 $34,585 21-22
28 Karen Khachanov 2013 $32,526 6-4
29 Taylor Dent 1998 $32,100 5-10
30 Ryan Harrison 2009 $28,120 28-17
31 Fabrice Santoro 1989 $27,867 10-10
32 Tommy Robredo 1999 $27,682 14-9
33 Jason Kubler 2010 $27,616 19-13
34 Joao Fonseca 2023 $27,364 11-6
35 Roger Federer 1998 $27,305 2-4
36 Andrey Rublev 2014 $25,882 27-11
37 Chun-Hsin Tseng 2018 $25,178 23-7
38 Aaron Krickstein 1984 $25,000 38-17
39 Guillermo Perez-Roldan 1986 $24,850 14-11
40 Lorenzo Musetti 2019 $23,700 32-25
41 Mikhail Youzhny 1999 $23,262 26-9
42 Filip Krajinovic 2009 $22,813 35-25
43 Jakub Mensik 2022 $22,694 38-16
44 Rudolf Molleker 2017 $21,795 22-22
45 Mario Ancic 2001 $20,871 30-22
46 Alex de Minaur 2016 $20,832 40-20
47 Brandon Nakashima 2018 $20,800 6-4
48 Borna Coric 2013 $20,742 41-13
49 Grigor Dimitrov 2008 $19,967 22-18
50 Nicklas Kulti 1988 $19,898 12-8
51 Dino Prizmic 2022 $19,689 28-9
52 Mariano Zabaleta 1995 $19,020 5-7
53 Jack Draper 2018 $18,744 22-9
54 Michael Mmoh 2015 $18,719 24-15
55 Yuki Bhambri 2009 $18,497 29-6
56 Robin Soderling 2001 $18,127 10-4
57 Holger Rune 2020 $18,013 32-16
58 Cristian Garin 2013 $17,950 25-16
59 Thanasi Kokkinakis 2013 $17,607 13-9
60 Goran Ivanisevic 1988 $17,164 3-6
61 Diego Nargiso 1987 $15,995 11-9
62 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 2020 $12,775 1-3
63 Mikael Ymer 2015 $12,545 25-12
64 Kyle Edmund 2012 $12,540 20-13
65 Roman Safiullin 2014 $11,952 42-4
66 Nicolas Escude 1993 $11,525 0-1
67 Corentin Moutet 2016 $10,118 27-16
68 Liam Broady 2011 $10,065 16-18
69 Jannik Sinner 2018 $9,956 16-18
70 Rajeev Ram 2001 $9,770 0-4
71 Quentin Halys 2013 $9,767 13-12
72 Elias Ymer 2013 $9,491 20-16
73 Marin Cilic 2005 $9,131 15-9
74 Jason Stoltenberg 1987 $8,928 4-5
75 Kevin Krawietz 2009 $8,875 3-5
76 Shintaro Mochizuki 2020 $8,713 17-14
77 Stefanos Tsitsipas 2015 $8,672 34-18
78 Nikoloz Basilashvili 2009 $8,334 24-25
79 Harold Mayot 2019 $8,314 13-5
80 Tomas Berdych 2002 $8,246 18-8
81 Jonathan Stark 1988 $8,207 5-2
82 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2002 $8,088 19-11
83 Andrea Gaudenzi 1990 $8,047 0-4
84 Jose Acasuso 1999 $8,027 19-8
85 Paul Goldstein 1993 $8,000 0-1
86 Andy Murray 2004 $7,980 27-7
87 Igor Kunitsyn 1998 $7,940 22-14
88 Gastao Elias 2007 $7,882 17-12
89 Ivan Ljubicic 1996 $7,505 1-2
90 Thiago Seyboth Wild 2017 $7,370 17-8
91 Andy Roddick 1999 $7,337 0-3
92 Wayne Ferreira 1988 $7,323 7-3
93 Mischa Zverev 2004 $7,084 9-8
94 Marc Polmans 2014 $6,806 7-13
95 Juan Pablo Ficovich 2014 $6,763 21-22
96 Taylor Fritz 2014 $6,719 6-9
97 Duje Ajdukovic 2018 $6,656 17-16
98 Karol Kucera 1991 $6,565 1-4
99 Marcos Ondruska 1989 $6,498 6-3
100 Guido Pella 2007 $6,490 25-19
101 David Nalbandian 1999 $6,474 16-7
102 Adrian Andreev 2018 $6,319 0-1
103 Marcel Granollers 2003 $6,262 17-11
104 Otto Virtanen 2018 $6,262 12-9
105 Federico Gaio 2009 $5,946 7-11
106 Daniel Altmaier 2015 $5,892 16-26
107 Sergiy Stakhovsky 2003 $5,808 8-8
108 Yibing Wu 2016 $5,632 7-8
109 Feliciano Lopez 1998 $5,542 5-7
110 Ernests Gulbis 2005 $5,504 16-13
111 Henri Laaksonen 2009 $5,352 6-6
112 Alexander Blockx 2022 $5,325 4-7
113 Nick Kyrgios 2012 $5,319 9-8
114 Sebastian Korda 2017 $5,238 9-9
115 Kei Nishikori 2006 $5,226 17-9
116 Thiago Monteiro 2011 $5,206 11-14
117 Daniel Merida 2021 $5,190 11-11
118 Guillermo Coria 1999 $4,899 9-7
119 Camilo Ugo Carabelli 2016 $4,824 14-15
120 Horst Skoff 1985 $4,732 5-6
121 Stefan Koubek 1994 $4,590 0-1
122 Alberto Martin 1995 $4,585 5-4
123 Ramkumar Ramanathan 2011 $4,350 8-16
124 Dmitry Popko 2013 $4,256 7-14
125 Stefano Napolitano 2012 $4,253 9-13
126 Dmitry Tursunov 1999 $4,157 22-19
127 Facundo Bagnis 2007 $4,146 10-16
128 Santiago Rodriguez Taverna 2016 $4,128 13-23
129 Olivier Rochus 1998 $4,045 11-3
130 Steven Diez 2008 $4,045 5-17
131 Evgeny Donskoy 2007 $3,968 6-7
132 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 2016 $3,963 15-11
133 Nicolas Lapentti 1993 $3,930 3-2
134 Karim Alami 1990 $3,853 1-3
135 Andrey Golubev 2004 $3,844 13-9
136 Daniel Nestor 1989 $3,782 0-3
137 Fabio Fognini 2004 $3,773 10-9
138 Martin Damm 2020 $3,751 5-11
139 Janko Tipsarevic 2001 $3,740 12-3
140 Paul-Henri Mathieu 1999 $3,711 15-11
141 Peter Gojowczyk 2006 $3,654 15-14
142 Alexei Popyrin 2016 $3,642 7-10
143 Jim Courier 1987 $3,563 1-5
144 Nicolas Kiefer 1994 $3,520 0-2
145 Santiago Giraldo 2004 $3,481 7-9
146 Kamil Majchrzak 2013 $3,454 3-4
147 Alexander Bublik 2014 $3,428 8-10
148 Sergi Bruguera 1988 $3,418 2-4
149 Ernesto Escobedo 2013 $3,403 15-7
150 Daniel Elahi Galan 2013 $3,398 11-16
151 Bernabe Zapata Miralles 2014 $3,368 13-15
152 Miomir Kecmanovic 2016 $3,334 16-9
153 Ricardas Berankis 2007 $3,196 15-8
154 Kacper Zuk 2016 $3,127 10-7
155 Christian Harrison 2011 $3,124 7-11
156 Grant Stafford 1988 $3,108 3-4
157 Flavio Cobolli 2019 $3,070 4-4
158 Juan Ignacio Londero 2010 $3,008 12-13
159 Yoshihito Nishioka 2012 $3,008 13-11
160 Andres Molteni 2005 $2,957 10-10
161 Adrian Mannarino 2005 $2,953 7-10
162 Roberto Bautista Agut 2005 $2,930 11-11
163 Juan Monaco 2001 $2,866 8-8
164 Daniel Evans 2007 $2,836 3-9
165 Hendrik Dreekmann 1992 $2,810 3-3
166 Jaume Munar 2014 $2,805 8-8
167 Martin Klizan 2006 $2,796 2-6
168 Andrei Pavel 1991 $2,790 1-1
169 Andrea Collarini 2009 $2,786 10-10
170 Geoffrey Blancaneaux 2015 $2,756 9-10
171 Titouan Droguet 2018 $2,740 4-8
172 Javier Sanchez 1985 $2,711 1-3
173 Coleman Wong 2021 $2,711 6-6
174 Thiago Agustin Tirante 2018 $2,680 6-4
175 Bruno Soares 1999 $2,657 9-9
176 Teymuraz Gabashvili 2002 $2,638 2-3
177 Lukas Lacko 2004 $2,603 4-7
178 Nicolas Pereira 1987 $2,573 3-4
179 Roberto Carballes Baena 2010 $2,568 5-1
180 Jack Sock 2009 $2,548 8-4
181 Diego Schwartzman 2009 $2,536 7-12
182 Vasek Pospisil 2007 $2,531 1-4
183 Roberto Quiroz 2009 $2,522 7-10
184 Mark Philippoussis 1993 $2,484 0-3
185 Jiri Vesely 2010 $2,458 6-7
186 Carlos Berlocq 2000 $2,438 4-10
187 Luis Horna 1997 $2,425 0-4
188 Tommy Paul 2014 $2,410 12-10
189 Gilbert Schaller 1986 $2,386 3-4
190 Giulio Zeppieri 2018 $2,383 6-5
191 Jiri Lehecka 2018 $2,382 5-4
192 Nicolas Almagro 2002 $2,274 11-7
193 Stefano Pescosolido 1988 $2,248 1-3
194 Denis Kudla 2009 $2,166 4-6
195 Dudi Sela 2002 $2,118 10-7
196 Arthur Cazaux 2019 $2,102 5-5
197 Arthur Gea 2022 $2,076 3-7
198 Jenson Brooksby 2017 $2,054 4-8
199 Pedro Martinez 2014 $2,046 6-7
200 Austin Krajicek 2007 $2,040 7-6
201 Alexandre Muller 2014 $2,038 6-12
202 Raemon Sluiter 1995 $2,035 3-2
203 Tim van Rijthoven 2014 $2,027 4-5
204 Timofey Skatov 2018 $2,020 3-5
205 Yu Hsiou Hsu 2016 $2,014 6-6
206 Hugo Gaston 2017 $1,990 3-5
207 Federico Delbonis 2007 $1,985 3-6
208 Ignacio Buse 2021 $1,960 0-4
209 Gael Monfils 2003 $1,953 4-9
210 Alexander Ritschard 2011 $1,934 3-13
211 Jurij Rodionov 2016 $1,930 12-11
212 Arthur Fery 2019 $1,927 3-4
213 Andrea Arnaboldi 2004 $1,853 5-10
214 Carlos Taberner 2014 $1,850 6-12
215 Adam Walton 2016 $1,800 2-4
216 Marcos Giron 2010 $1,766 4-8
217 Zizou Bergs 2016 $1,755 2-4
218 Dominik Hrbaty 1995 $1,750 0-1
219 Renzo Olivo 2009 $1,676 5-7
220 Hugo Dellien 2010 $1,674 4-5
221 Dominic Thiem 2010 $1,635 2-4
222 Thomaz Bellucci 2004 $1,632 2-6
223 Casper Ruud 2015 $1,612 7-7
224 Patrick Kypson 2016 $1,604 4-7
225 Ugo Humbert 2015 $1,578 5-5
226 Greg Rusedski 1990 $1,572 1-2
227 Lorenzo Giustino 2008 $1,572 3-6
228 Reilly Opelka 2014 $1,572 6-6
229 David Prinosil 1990 $1,562 1-2
230 Tung-Lin Wu 2015 $1,536 2-4
231 Taro Daniel 2010 $1,518 4-7
232 Robin Haase 2004 $1,515 1-2
233 Sebastien Lareau 1990 $1,502 -
234 Luciano Darderi 2019 $1,490 2-2
235 Lars Jonsson 1987 $1,487 0-1
236 David Wheaton 1986 $1,461 0-1
237 Albert Ramos-Vinolas 2005 $1,460 4-7
238 Laslo Djere 2012 $1,454 5-5
239 Alex Corretja 1991 $1,445 3-1
240 Daniel Gimeno-Traver 2002 $1,436 0-3
241 Thomas Fabbiano 2006 $1,426 0-1
242 Frederico Ferreira Silva 2012 $1,400 7-8
243 Mitchell Krueger 2011 $1,370 2-5
244 Roman Andres Burruchaga 2019 $1,364 1-5
245 Robert Farah 2004 $1,360 0-6
246 Emilio Gomez 2008 $1,356 1-4
247 Adam Pavlasek 2011 $1,353 5-4
248 Alejandro Tabilo 2014 $1,350 3-4
249 Juan Manuel Cerundolo 2018 $1,350 2-5
250 Milos Raonic 2007 $1,348 2-4
251 Alex Bolt 2010 $1,346 3-4
252 Aleksandr Nedovyesov 2004 $1,322 0-3
253 Nicolas Mahut 1999 $1,311 4-4
254 Marcelo Arevalo 2007 $1,308 1-7
255 Maximilian Marterer 2012 $1,302 5-5
256 Zsombor Piros 2016 $1,288 2-5
257 Ivo Karlovic 1996 $1,285 -
258 Martin Damm 1989 $1,276 0-1
259 Sebastian Baez 2017 $1,273 3-2
260 Emilio Nava 2018 $1,236 5-3
261 Filippo Volandri 1998 $1,235 2-6
262 Andreas Seppi 2001 $1,224 3-5
263 Andrea Pellegrino 2014 $1,210 2-6
264 Jeremy Chardy 2004 $1,175 2-4
265 Marcos Baghdatis 2002 $1,159 3-4
266 Max Purcell 2015 $1,140 5-4
267 Richard Fromberg 1987 $1,136 4-1
268 Dimitar Kuzmanov 2010 $1,126 4-6
269 Enzo Couacaud 2012 $1,125 3-5
270 Rinky Hijikata 2018 $1,120 2-3
271 Justin Gimelstob 1994 $1,100 0-0
272 Guido Andreozzi 2008 $1,072 3-7
273 Xavier Malisse 1997 $1,055 0-1
274 Miguel Reyes-Varela 2004 $1,051 2-4
275 Aziz Dougaz 2014 $1,050 1-2
276 Brett Steven 1986 $1,015 0-1
277 Simone Bolelli 2002 $1,004 0-2
278 Cem Ilkel 2012 $990 2-7
279 Juan Sebastian Cabal 2003 $974 0-4
280 Jurgen Melzer 1998 $954 2-4
281 Pavel Kotov 2015 $948 3-3
282 Alessandro Giannessi 2007 $940 0-2
283 Pedro Cachin 2012 $926 5-7
284 Daniel Michalski 2017 $924 3-3
285 Viktor Troicki 2003 $918 4-5
286 Felipe Meligeni Alves 2015 $912 1-3
287 Leonardo Mayer 2004 $900 1-2
288 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 2000 $899 1-3
289 Soonwoo Kwon 2014 $896 2-5
290 Christian Ruud 1989 $895 0-1
291 Bjorn Fratangelo 2010 $880 1-6
292 Emil Ruusuvuori 2016 $872 2-3
293 Altug Celikbilek 2013 $868 1-5
294 Nicolas Jarry 2012 $853 1-2
295 Gonzalo Oliveira 2012 $851 1-3
296 Zhizhen Zhang 2013 $840 3-2
297 James Duckworth 2009 $828 1-4
298 Facundo Diaz Acosta 2017 $774 1-3
299 Dominic Stricker 2019 $770 1-2
300 Genaro Alberto Olivieri 2015 $762 0-5
301 Yuichi Sugita 2005 $757 0-2
302 Jan Zielinski 2013 $748 1-2
303 Sebastian Ofner 2013 $736 2-3
304 Alejandro Falla 2000 $723 1-2
305 Marcelo Melo 2000 $721 0-2
306 Rafael Jodar 2023 $715 1-3
307 Jan Choinski 2013 $708 2-5
308 Gregoire Barrere 2011 $706 3-5
309 Potito Starace 1998 $700 3-3
310 Yasutaka Uchiyama 2009 $695 3-3
311 Andrew Ilie 1993 $690 1-2
312 Andrej Martin 2006 $686 0-2
313 Sumit Nagal 2014 $684 2-4
314 Petr Korda 1985 $680 0-1
315 Gilles Muller 2000 $680 7-2
316 Adolfo Daniel Vallejo 2021 $678 1-4
317 Pablo Cuevas 2003 $672 1-5
318 Kimmer Coppejans 2011 $672 1-5
319 Christopher O'Connell 2011 $652 1-3
320 Franco Agamenone 2010 $649 0-3
321 Tennys Sandgren 2008 $638 1-3
322 Hubert Hurkacz 2014 $638 2-2
323 Hamad Medjedovic 2020 $619 2-2
324 Yosuke Watanuki 2015 $615 4-3
325 Joris De Loore 2010 $608 3-4
326 Daniel Masur 2011 $589 0-1
327 Alexandr Dolgopolov 2005 $588 1-2
328 Maximo Gonzalez 2000 $587 1-2
329 Damir Dzumhur 2009 $584 2-4
330 Tomislav Brkic 2007 $577 0-2
331 Jozef Kovalik 2009 $574 1-1
332 Hugo Grenier 2013 $572 1-3
333 Stan Wawrinka 2002 $565 2-1
334 Radu Albot 2006 $546 0-2
335 Daniel Dutra da Silva 2005 $530 0-4
336 Jarkko Nieminen 1998 $524 1-3
337 Lars Burgsmuller 1992 $520 0-1
338 Magnus Norman 1993 $520 0-1
339 Radek Stepanek 1995 $520 0-2
340 Federico Coria 2009 $518 2-3
341 Gustavo Kuerten 1993 $510 0-1
342 Yannick Hanfmann 2008 $498 2-2
343 Mohamed Safwat 2007 $495 1-1
344 Mattia Bellucci 2018 $492 2-1
345 Nuno Borges 2014 $488 1-3
346 Jay Clarke 2015 $480 1-3
347 Matteo Arnaldi 2018 $468 1-2
348 Illya Marchenko 2004 $450 -
349 Terence Atmane 2019 $438 2-1
350 Ariel Behar 2006 $436 1-3
351 Lukas Rosol 2002 $435 1-1
352 Valentin Royer 2018 $430 1-1
353 Brandon Holt 2015 $418 -
354 Nino Serdarusic 2013 $416 0-3
355 Fernando Gonzalez 1997 $400 0-0
356 Juan Carlos Ferrero 1997 $400 0-0
357 Oliver Crawford 2016 $380 1-3
358 Lucas Pouille 2011 $376 1-3
359 Albano Olivetti 2008 $371 0-1
360 Joao Domingues 2010 $371 0-2
361 Yen-Hsun Lu 2000 $352 0-2
362 Philipp Kohlschreiber 2000 $350 0-1
363 Tomas Barrios Vera 2014 $340 1-2
364 Marco Trungelliti 2007 $326 0-2
365 Jamie Murray 2003 $325 -
366 Dusan Lajovic 2007 $318 1-2
367 Nikola Cacic 2007 $318 1-2
368 Stefano Travaglia 2008 $318 1-2
369 Alexander Erler 2014 $312 0-4
370 Egor Gerasimov 2009 $311 0-1
371 Mate Pavic 2010 $300 1-1
372 Pablo Carreno Busta 2008 $294 0-2
373 Valentin Vacherot 2015 $276 1-3
374 Tomas Martin Etcheverry 2016 $276 1-2
375 Attila Balazs 2005 $270 -
376 Guillermo Canas 1994 $260 0-1
377 Alex Molcan 2014 $260 1-3
378 Ethan Quinn 2021 $260 0-1
379 Nicolas Mejia 2017 $258 1-1
380 Benjamin Bonzi 2013 $252 0-2
381 Fabian Marozsan 2016 $250 -
382 Roman Jebavy 2006 $248 0-1
383 Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 2014 $210 0-1
384 Nicolas Kicker 2009 $208 0-1
385 Juan Pablo Varillas 2012 $208 0-1
386 Mackenzie McDonald 2012 $208 1-3
387 Lloyd Harris 2014 $208 1-1
388 Fernando Verdasco 2000 $200 1-1
389 Kristof Vliegen 1999 $195 -
390 David Ferrer 1999 $176 0-1
391 Sam Querrey 2004 $176 0-1
392 Nikola Mektic 2005 $176 0-1
393 Lloyd Glasspool 2010 $176 0-1
394 Calvin Hemery 2012 $176 0-2
395 Matteo Berrettini 2013 $156 0-1
396 Zdenek Kolar 2013 $156 0-1
397 Aleksandr Shevchenko 2017 $156 0-1
398 Tomas Machac 2017 $156 0-1
399 Mariano Navone 2018 $156 0-1
400 Alberto Berasategui 1990 $140 0-0
401 Joao Sousa 2006 $135 -
402 Ivan Sabanov 2009 $135 -
403 Matej Sabanov 2009 $135 -
404 Jordan Thompson 2011 $135 -
405 Steve Johnson 2006 $118 0-1
406 Pierre-Hugues Herbert 2008 $118 0-2
407 Constant Lestienne 2009 $118 0-1
408 Marton Fucsovics 2009 $118 0-1
409 Mats Moraing 2009 $118 0-2
410 Filip Horansky 2010 $118 1-3
411 Hunter Reese 2010 $118 0-1
412 Oscar Otte 2010 $118 0-1
413 Julien Benneteau 1998 $117 0-1
414 Marcelo Rios 1992 $90 -
415 Andre Goransson 2011 $90 -
416 Antoine Bellier 2013 $72 -
417 Mardy Fish 1998 $49 -
418 Gijs Brouwer 2013 $36 -

The biggest seasons at 17 before 2010

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

The five biggest seasons at 17 before 2010, by prize money won.
# PLAYER YEAR PRIZE MONEY
1 Michael Chang 1989 $682,130
2 Rafael Nadal 2003 $243,238
3 Andre Agassi 1987 $205,555
4 Lleyton Hewitt 1998 $135,535
5 Richard Gasquet 2003 $112,721

17 against the ages either side

The median season and the record at each age

0 players peaked at 17
The median season, the biggest season and the number of players whose best season came at that age, for the ages around 17.
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
20 $35,495 Carlos Alcaraz $15,666,904$15.7m 11

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 17 is higher than at 16 and lower than at 18.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most prize money a tennis player has won at 17?

Michael Chang won $682,130 in 1989, singles and doubles together.

How much prize money does a tennis player win at 17?

The median season at 17 among the 696 men we hold paid $1,944. 0 of the 418 seasons at 17 paid a million dollars or more.

Was 17 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.