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TENNIS · PRIZE MONEY · AGE 18

Tennis prize money at 18

Carlos Alcaraz won $1,632,678 in 2021, the year he turned 18. That is the most any of the 696 men we hold won at 18, across 545 seasons. The median season at 18 paid $5,654.

MOST AT 18 $1.6m Carlos Alcaraz, 2021
MEDIAN SEASON $5,654 24th of 27 ages
SEASONS 545 1 at seven figures
MOST BEFORE 2010 $866,070 Michael Chang, 1990

The twenty biggest seasons at 18

Prize money won in the calendar year a player turned 18, singles and doubles together

Every season at 18

Ranked by prize money. Win-loss is singles.

545 seasons
Every season a tennis player we hold had in the year he turned 18, ranked by prize money won, with the year and his singles win-loss record.
# PLAYER YEAR PRIZE MONEY W-L
1 Carlos Alcaraz 2021 $1,632,678$1.6m 50-19
2 Michael Chang 1990 $866,070 47-21
3 Andre Agassi 1988 $812,062 67-11
4 Joao Fonseca 2024 $804,326 37-23
5 Denis Shapovalov 2017 $764,480 48-27
6 Jannik Sinner 2019 $643,360 67-24
7 Boris Becker 1985 $617,998 59-19
8 Rafael Nadal 2004 $447,758 32-18
9 Lleyton Hewitt 1999 $411,771 45-20
10 Juncheng Shang 2023 $408,502 31-23
11 Alexander Zverev 2015 $372,891 38-28
12 Holger Rune 2021 $362,201 73-29
13 Andrei Medvedev 1992 $335,840 32-12
14 Felix Auger-Aliassime 2018 $298,858 41-28
15 Jakub Mensik 2023 $242,766 37-23
16 Marat Safin 1998 $236,565 30-24
17 Borna Coric 2014 $230,364 38-22
18 Roger Federer 1999 $225,139 29-23
19 Andy Murray 2005 $219,490 40-18
20 Alex de Minaur 2017 $212,227 39-28
21 Novak Djokovic 2005 $202,416 23-14
22 Goran Ivanisevic 1989 $194,513 31-26
23 Guillermo Perez-Roldan 1987 $193,226 45-16
24 Andrey Rublev 2015 $191,781 30-24
25 Frances Tiafoe 2016 $189,773 47-28
26 Lorenzo Musetti 2020 $174,156 30-15
27 Sergi Bruguera 1989 $173,619 38-17
28 Richard Gasquet 2004 $170,505 19-22
29 Juan Martin del Potro 2006 $169,815 27-22
30 Martin Landaluce 2024 $162,726 42-24
31 Aaron Krickstein 1985 $159,960 32-22
32 Pete Sampras 1989 $157,615 18-19
33 Ryan Harrison 2010 $153,038 32-26
34 Thanasi Kokkinakis 2014 $149,270 44-24
35 Thomas Enqvist 1992 $132,859 27-17
36 Fabrice Santoro 1990 $127,027 24-21
37 Mats Wilander 1982 $125,000 67-18
38 Donald Young 2007 $114,467 52-23
39 Stefan Kozlov 2016 $114,452 59-31
40 Jim Courier 1988 $110,525 28-16
41 Nick Kyrgios 2013 $109,785 31-12
42 Learner Tien 2023 $107,709 30-10
43 Guillermo Coria 2000 $107,540 50-12
44 Mikhail Youzhny 2000 $104,802 30-22
45 Michael Mmoh 2016 $103,218 38-22
46 Mario Ancic 2002 $101,122 43-23
47 Harold Mayot 2020 $99,912 14-12
48 Bernard Tomic 2010 $99,606 30-17
49 Alex Corretja 1992 $99,168 23-23
50 Rudolf Molleker 2018 $99,159 30-22
51 Grigor Dimitrov 2009 $96,962 28-28
52 Mariano Zabaleta 1996 $94,224 29-19
53 Dino Prizmic 2023 $88,612 38-19
54 Marin Cilic 2006 $87,600 20-22
55 Luca Van Assche 2022 $86,208 55-31
56 Ernests Gulbis 2006 $82,074 39-20
57 Andy Roddick 2000 $79,930 21-8
58 Diego Nargiso 1988 $79,516 11-13
59 Yibing Wu 2017 $77,288 20-14
60 Filip Krajinovic 2010 $75,179 25-26
61 Arthur Fils 2022 $73,853 43-28
62 Corentin Moutet 2017 $70,810 53-20
63 Tomas Berdych 2003 $70,628 46-20
64 Dominik Hrbaty 1996 $70,090 37-17
65 Kyle Edmund 2013 $68,858 33-16
66 Tommy Paul 2015 $66,547 47-23
67 Ethan Quinn 2022 $66,366 26-14
68 Jason Stoltenberg 1988 $61,399 17-13
69 Tommy Haas 1996 $59,275 14-8
70 Jenson Brooksby 2018 $58,915 10-12
71 Tommy Robredo 2000 $56,944 23-12
72 Patrick Kypson 2017 $56,833 13-12
73 Robin Soderling 2002 $56,770 30-19
74 Xavier Malisse 1998 $56,760 8-8
75 Shintaro Mochizuki 2021 $55,976 35-30
76 Taylor Fritz 2015 $55,865 27-11
77 Chun-Hsin Tseng 2019 $54,615 39-29
78 Franco Davin 1988 $54,553 19-16
79 Nicklas Kulti 1989 $54,009 16-14
80 Kei Nishikori 2007 $53,623 22-16
81 Hendrik Dreekmann 1993 $48,725 14-16
82 Todd Woodbridge 1989 $46,968 20-11
83 Miomir Kecmanovic 2017 $46,863 45-21
84 Stan Wawrinka 2003 $45,998 24-12
85 Jack Draper 2019 $44,247 41-17
86 Elias Ymer 2014 $42,556 53-29
87 Sjeng Schalken 1994 $41,472 18-12
88 Gael Monfils 2004 $40,409 20-13
89 Sebastian Korda 2018 $40,247 23-25
90 Horst Skoff 1986 $39,941 31-13
91 Christian Harrison 2012 $39,057 24-19
92 Jaume Munar 2015 $38,734 21-21
93 Jose Acasuso 2000 $38,083 37-20
94 Mark Philippoussis 1994 $37,759 11-8
95 Arthur Cazaux 2020 $37,729 14-12
96 Jaime Yzaga 1985 $37,359 22-10
97 Nicolas Kiefer 1995 $37,126 14-9
98 Arthur Gea 2023 $36,984 31-17
99 Karen Khachanov 2014 $36,761 35-27
100 Thomas Muster 1985 $36,319 26-18
101 Cristian Garin 2014 $36,269 72-29
102 Casper Ruud 2016 $35,064 48-19
103 Alberto Martin 1996 $34,450 14-18
104 Nicolas Mahut 2000 $33,672 11-17
105 Stefanos Tsitsipas 2016 $33,270 50-18
106 Alexander Blockx 2023 $32,985 40-15
107 Mikael Ymer 2016 $31,406 12-6
108 David Nalbandian 2000 $31,195 18-16
109 Ricardas Berankis 2008 $30,681 34-24
110 Paul-Henri Mathieu 2000 $30,669 13-13
111 Dominic Thiem 2011 $30,599 7-10
112 Ivan Ljubicic 1997 $29,909 5-6
113 Nicolas Almagro 2003 $29,650 61-18
114 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 2021 $28,162 19-20
115 Yuki Bhambri 2010 $27,595 27-21
116 Hugo Gaston 2018 $26,381 5-12
117 Alexandr Dolgopolov 2006 $24,960 38-12
118 Martin Klizan 2007 $23,756 27-23
119 Jack Sock 2010 $23,527 9-13
120 Taylor Dent 1999 $22,725 18-12
121 Marcos Baghdatis 2003 $22,227 43-10
122 Evgeny Donskoy 2008 $22,156 14-12
123 Daniel Merida 2022 $22,103 26-25
124 Sergiy Stakhovsky 2004 $21,496 15-17
125 Hamad Medjedovic 2021 $21,107 13-13
126 Juan Manuel Cerundolo 2019 $21,088 46-22
127 Stefano Pescosolido 1989 $20,652 9-8
128 Reilly Opelka 2015 $20,242 7-12
129 Austin Krajicek 2008 $20,182 7-7
130 Richard Fromberg 1988 $20,129 17-9
131 Max Purcell 2016 $20,124 27-12
132 Janko Tipsarevic 2002 $20,055 41-17
133 Stefan Edberg 1984 $20,000 29-18
134 Alex Michelsen 2022 $19,563 23-10
135 Emilio Nava 2019 $19,437 6-10
136 Thiago Seyboth Wild 2018 $19,295 19-18
137 Justin Gimelstob 1995 $19,260 1-2
138 Rinky Hijikata 2019 $19,227 16-16
139 Jimmy Arias 1982 $19,000 30-17
140 Ernesto Escobedo 2014 $18,912 18-13
141 Karol Kucera 1992 $18,824 8-9
142 Luis Horna 1998 $18,619 29-11
143 Igor Kunitsyn 1999 $18,589 13-11
144 Dudi Sela 2003 $18,577 19-11
145 Fabio Fognini 2005 $17,668 25-19
146 Giulio Zeppieri 2019 $17,564 23-17
147 Jurgen Melzer 1999 $17,057 9-6
148 Andrea Gaudenzi 1991 $17,053 1-6
149 Marcos Ondruska 1990 $16,805 3-5
150 Geoffrey Blancaneaux 2016 $16,242 25-20
151 Adrian Andreev 2019 $16,207 20-19
152 Liam Broady 2012 $15,939 10-14
153 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 2003 $15,703 22-15
154 Martin Damm 2021 $15,597 24-21
155 Marc Polmans 2015 $15,383 12-17
156 Mackenzie McDonald 2013 $15,344 2-3
157 Denis Kudla 2010 $15,196 17-15
158 Laslo Djere 2013 $15,158 30-12
159 Teymuraz Gabashvili 2003 $14,988 33-12
160 Daniel Altmaier 2016 $14,880 57-25
161 Brandon Nakashima 2019 $14,870 18-9
162 Adrian Mannarino 2006 $14,797 26-19
163 Daniel Evans 2008 $14,600 30-17
164 Alberto Mancini 1987 $14,366 11-12
165 Leander Paes 1991 $13,924 9-8
166 Gastao Elias 2008 $13,799 30-26
167 Yevgeny Kafelnikov 1992 $13,785 1-4
168 Sebastien Lareau 1991 $13,760 1-2
169 Jeremy Chardy 2005 $13,728 11-5
170 Sam Querrey 2005 $13,595 8-7
171 Timofey Skatov 2019 $13,448 23-27
172 Mate Pavic 2011 $13,411 15-24
173 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 2017 $13,294 19-13
174 Marcel Granollers 2004 $13,278 35-17
175 Rajeev Ram 2002 $13,266 12-12
176 Dmitry Tursunov 2000 $13,239 32-13
177 Kamil Majchrzak 2014 $13,187 28-11
178 Lloyd Harris 2015 $13,001 48-13
179 Olivier Rochus 1999 $12,888 33-12
180 Thiago Monteiro 2012 $12,876 35-23
181 Diego Schwartzman 2010 $12,860 41-23
182 Paul Goldstein 1994 $12,447 0-1
183 Kevin Krawietz 2010 $12,403 9-15
184 Andrey Golubev 2005 $12,261 33-22
185 Quentin Halys 2014 $12,202 20-20
186 Sumit Nagal 2015 $12,199 37-16
187 Wayne Ferreira 1989 $11,987 9-7
188 Nicolas Pereira 1988 $11,822 4-7
189 Alexei Popyrin 2017 $11,727 22-17
190 Peter Gojowczyk 2007 $11,463 33-24
191 Andrea Collarini 2010 $11,460 27-21
192 Duje Ajdukovic 2019 $11,454 26-14
193 Jurij Rodionov 2017 $11,315 18-9
194 Santiago Giraldo 2005 $11,218 24-14
195 Albert Costa 1993 $10,920 7-5
196 Feliciano Lopez 1999 $10,898 16-8
197 David Prinosil 1991 $10,805 8-5
198 Adam Pavlasek 2012 $10,631 29-17
199 David Wheaton 1987 $10,549 3-3
200 Juan Carlos Ferrero 1998 $10,519 21-6
201 Mitchell Krueger 2012 $10,225 11-17
202 Thomas Johansson 1993 $10,140 2-2
203 Yoshihito Nishioka 2013 $10,106 29-12
204 Steven Diez 2009 $10,086 16-22
205 Taro Daniel 2011 $9,951 43-28
206 Jiri Lehecka 2019 $9,815 13-13
207 Roberto Carballes Baena 2011 $9,801 32-16
208 Raemon Sluiter 1996 $9,791 0-3
209 Nicolas Massu 1997 $9,700 3-6
210 Lukas Lacko 2005 $9,670 30-14
211 Frederico Ferreira Silva 2013 $9,620 26-22
212 Arnaud Boetsch 1987 $9,618 3-5
213 Santiago Rodriguez Taverna 2017 $9,556 23-22
214 Facundo Bagnis 2008 $9,518 30-26
215 Coleman Wong 2022 $9,426 15-16
216 Yosuke Watanuki 2016 $9,303 12-4
217 Hubert Hurkacz 2015 $9,293 16-13
218 Zsombor Piros 2017 $9,276 22-14
219 Calvin Hemery 2013 $9,265 17-21
220 Tomas Machac 2018 $9,200 21-7
221 Jiri Vesely 2011 $9,079 19-13
222 Adolfo Daniel Vallejo 2022 $9,077 23-17
223 Jay Clarke 2016 $9,063 35-19
224 Federico Gaio 2010 $9,060 14-18
225 Jiri Novak 1993 $8,960 3-2
226 Thomas Fabbiano 2007 $8,960 21-15
227 Dmitry Popko 2014 $8,942 23-23
228 Robby Ginepri 2000 $8,890 1-2
229 Andreas Seppi 2002 $8,850 7-11
230 Magnus Larsson 1988 $8,730 4-3
231 Filippo Volandri 1999 $8,701 16-14
232 J.J. Wolf 2016 $8,670 0-2
233 Bernabe Zapata Miralles 2015 $8,647 24-23
234 Andres Molteni 2006 $8,456 26-29
235 Mischa Zverev 2005 $8,274 15-17
236 Lucas Pouille 2012 $8,248 36-13
237 Lars Jonsson 1988 $8,226 3-5
238 Guido Pella 2008 $8,191 36-21
239 Vasek Pospisil 2008 $8,098 8-18
240 Pedro Cachin 2013 $7,965 29-16
241 Flavio Cobolli 2020 $7,945 4-8
242 Jordi Burillo 1990 $7,759 0-2
243 Aleksandr Nedovyesov 2005 $7,739 23-16
244 David Goffin 2008 $7,573 24-11
245 Pablo Carreno Busta 2009 $7,496 29-17
246 Yuichi Sugita 2006 $7,465 23-8
247 Greg Rusedski 1991 $7,445 7-3
248 Enzo Couacaud 2013 $7,097 26-9
249 Ramkumar Ramanathan 2012 $6,942 13-22
250 Luciano Darderi 2020 $6,887 4-7
251 Juan Monaco 2002 $6,855 17-12
252 Soonwoo Kwon 2015 $6,755 19-11
253 Pedro Martinez 2015 $6,657 23-16
254 Ignacio Buse 2022 $6,654 13-8
255 Andrew Ilie 1994 $6,604 2-6
256 Juan Ignacio Londero 2011 $6,595 18-27
257 Yen-Hsun Lu 2001 $6,480 19-12
258 Emilio Gomez 2009 $6,474 15-9
259 Gilles Muller 2001 $6,398 17-14
260 Milos Raonic 2008 $6,394 8-10
261 Martin Damm 1990 $6,275 0-1
262 Thiago Agustin Tirante 2019 $6,188 18-10
263 James Duckworth 2010 $6,181 12-11
264 Marco Trungelliti 2008 $6,132 22-17
265 Nikoloz Basilashvili 2010 $6,097 20-25
266 Tomas Barrios Vera 2015 $6,034 15-11
267 David Ferrer 2000 $6,020 19-8
268 Bjorn Borg 1974 $6,000 102-24
269 Borna Gojo 2016 $5,814 19-17
270 Tennys Sandgren 2009 $5,724 8-12
271 Renzo Olivo 2010 $5,719 20-12
272 Daniil Medvedev 2014 $5,660 20-9
273 Carlos Taberner 2015 $5,654 21-21
274 Nicolas Mejia 2018 $5,611 13-8
275 Andrei Cherkasov 1988 $5,608 8-6
276 Alexandre Muller 2015 $5,595 23-16
277 Tung-Lin Wu 2016 $5,570 9-9
278 Fernando Verdasco 2001 $5,512 12-9
279 Bohdan Ulihrach 1993 $5,440 1-2
280 Nicolas Jarry 2013 $5,438 10-14
281 Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 2008 $5,431 9-6
282 Bjorn Fratangelo 2011 $5,402 9-9
283 Javier Sanchez 1986 $5,400 3-3
284 Emil Ruusuvuori 2017 $5,366 11-4
285 Robin Haase 2005 $5,362 11-6
286 Jason Kubler 2011 $5,297 23-10
287 Leonardo Mayer 2005 $5,266 14-9
288 Robert Farah 2005 $5,201 11-13
289 John Isner 2003 $5,176 0-1
290 Jan Choinski 2014 $5,118 17-13
291 Vincent Spadea 1992 $5,070 2-2
292 Federico Delbonis 2008 $5,061 16-18
293 Jackson Withrow 2011 $5,000 -
294 Lars Burgsmuller 1993 $4,955 7-6
295 Maximilian Marterer 2013 $4,954 10-12
296 Yu Hsiou Hsu 2017 $4,954 4-9
297 Karim Alami 1991 $4,948 0-4
298 Tim van Rijthoven 2015 $4,860 19-4
299 Matteo Arnaldi 2019 $4,843 5-12
300 Rafael Jodar 2024 $4,750 6-5
301 Camilo Ugo Carabelli 2017 $4,729 15-16
302 Nicolas Escude 1994 $4,723 0-2
303 Daniel Elahi Galan 2014 $4,709 12-19
304 Kacper Zuk 2017 $4,704 3-12
305 Jarkko Nieminen 1999 $4,653 9-6
306 Fernando Gonzalez 1998 $4,615 12-6
307 Sebastien Grosjean 1996 $4,600 3-1
308 Marc Rosset 1988 $4,590 2-6
309 Mariano Navone 2019 $4,552 13-13
310 Alexander Bublik 2015 $4,550 11-11
311 Filip Horansky 2011 $4,506 8-9
312 Jan-Michael Gambill 1995 $4,400 0-1
313 Zizou Bergs 2017 $4,343 8-8
314 Stefano Napolitano 2013 $4,313 9-12
315 Grant Stafford 1989 $4,312 0-5
316 Cem Ilkel 2013 $4,311 9-15
317 Valentin Royer 2019 $4,201 12-7
318 Lorenzo Giustino 2009 $4,168 7-19
319 Paradorn Srichaphan 1997 $4,130 0-1
320 Andrea Pellegrino 2015 $4,123 4-13
321 Denis Istomin 2004 $4,105 5-12
322 Simone Bolelli 2003 $4,070 11-9
323 Marcos Giron 2011 $4,047 2-7
324 Andrei Pavel 1992 $3,985 0-4
325 Carlos Berlocq 2001 $3,920 10-6
326 Aleksandr Shevchenko 2018 $3,867 12-11
327 Lukasz Kubot 2000 $3,783 8-6
328 Albert Ramos-Vinolas 2006 $3,775 9-12
329 Alex Molcan 2015 $3,761 8-7
330 Michael Llodra 1998 $3,753 6-8
331 Mattia Bellucci 2019 $3,748 7-12
332 Nino Serdarusic 2014 $3,736 5-9
333 Ivo Karlovic 1997 $3,730 -
334 Aziz Dougaz 2015 $3,702 13-15
335 Nikolay Davydenko 1999 $3,672 15-11
336 Stefano Travaglia 2009 $3,660 8-17
337 Miguel Reyes-Varela 2005 $3,631 5-7
338 Omar Camporese 1986 $3,616 0-3
339 Joao Sousa 2007 $3,610 9-16
340 Guillaume Raoux 1988 $3,607 0-2
341 Jaime Faria 2021 $3,586 1-5
342 Philipp Kohlschreiber 2001 $3,577 1-5
343 Francesco Passaro 2019 $3,528 5-8
344 Gonzalo Oliveira 2013 $3,516 9-16
345 Pablo Cuevas 2004 $3,509 14-16
346 Juan Pablo Ficovich 2015 $3,486 6-19
347 Bruno Soares 2000 $3,451 4-7
348 Thomaz Bellucci 2005 $3,432 9-12
349 Guido Andreozzi 2009 $3,401 10-14
350 Mardy Fish 1999 $3,377 0-2
351 Marco Cecchinato 2010 $3,374 5-11
352 Tomas Carbonell 1986 $3,369 1-3
353 Alex Bolt 2011 $3,367 6-12
354 Daniel Michalski 2018 $3,304 6-7
355 Valentin Vacherot 2016 $3,276 13-11
356 Nicolas Lapentti 1994 $3,247 1-2
357 Benoit Paire 2007 $3,201 6-5
358 David Sanchez 1996 $3,175 0-2
359 Kevin Anderson 2004 $3,175 12-2
360 Nikola Milojevic 2013 $3,094 15-6
361 Pavel Kotov 2016 $3,051 8-8
362 Gregoire Barrere 2012 $3,049 6-12
363 Hugo Grenier 2014 $3,030 12-14
364 Altug Celikbilek 2014 $3,028 5-14
365 Sebastian Baez 2018 $3,014 8-7
366 Maximo Gonzalez 2001 $2,963 9-9
367 Joris De Loore 2011 $2,963 7-10
368 Zhizhen Zhang 2014 $2,953 5-13
369 Alberto Berasategui 1991 $2,939 1-2
370 Marcelo Melo 2001 $2,924 3-8
371 Bjorn Phau 1997 $2,920 0-4
372 Renzo Furlan 1988 $2,912 5-3
373 Yasutaka Uchiyama 2010 $2,893 11-3
374 Dimitar Kuzmanov 2011 $2,874 12-13
375 Kimmer Coppejans 2012 $2,813 9-8
376 Gustavo Kuerten 1994 $2,785 3-2
377 Terence Atmane 2020 $2,742 7-10
378 Jan Zielinski 2014 $2,724 3-7
379 Ugo Humbert 2016 $2,708 9-13
380 Andrea Arnaboldi 2005 $2,705 4-10
381 Dusan Lajovic 2008 $2,623 6-12
382 Felipe Meligeni Alves 2016 $2,615 2-9
383 Alexander Ritschard 2012 $2,604 10-14
384 Mohamed Safwat 2008 $2,602 6-10
385 Alejandro Tabilo 2015 $2,598 7-10
386 Marcelo Rios 1993 $2,575 3-3
387 Benjamin Bonzi 2014 $2,472 9-11
388 Tomas Martin Etcheverry 2017 $2,433 6-8
389 Viktor Troicki 2004 $2,411 7-4
390 Gilad Bloom 1985 $2,386 2-2
391 Roman Safiullin 2015 $2,385 11-7
392 Antoine Hoang 2013 $2,284 4-9
393 Alexander Erler 2015 $2,244 1-8
394 Federico Coria 2010 $2,227 7-9
395 Damir Dzumhur 2010 $2,213 7-4
396 Andrej Martin 2007 $2,146 3-6
397 Tallon Griekspoor 2014 $2,140 4-8
398 Kristof Vliegen 2000 $2,125 2-2
399 Sebastian Ofner 2014 $2,096 6-10
400 Roberto Bautista Agut 2006 $2,071 7-9
401 Florent Serra 1999 $2,029 7-7
402 James Blake 1997 $2,000 0-0
403 Cameron Norrie 2013 $1,985 7-6
404 Marton Fucsovics 2010 $1,961 2-6
405 Galo Blanco 1994 $1,950 0-1
406 Kaichi Uchida 2012 $1,939 3-6
407 Zdenek Kolar 2014 $1,909 3-4
408 Egor Gerasimov 2010 $1,899 2-6
409 Pedro Sousa 2006 $1,883 5-5
410 Pablo Andujar 2004 $1,869 5-5
411 Brett Steven 1987 $1,849 1-1
412 Roman Andres Burruchaga 2020 $1,830 4-5
413 Titouan Droguet 2019 $1,769 6-5
414 Hugo Dellien 2011 $1,766 5-5
415 Vit Kopriva 2015 $1,766 7-8
416 Roberto Quiroz 2010 $1,748 2-4
417 Otto Virtanen 2019 $1,746 4-4
418 Michael Berrer 1998 $1,741 3-5
419 Zachary Svajda 2020 $1,716 3-4
420 Genaro Alberto Olivieri 2016 $1,700 7-6
421 Lucas Miedler 2014 $1,682 3-7
422 Juan Sebastian Cabal 2004 $1,663 1-7
423 Radu Albot 2007 $1,663 6-5
424 Marcelo Arevalo 2008 $1,654 3-12
425 Nuno Borges 2015 $1,650 4-6
426 Matteo Berrettini 2014 $1,649 0-4
427 Filip Dewulf 1990 $1,647 2-1
428 Nikola Mektic 2006 $1,629 1-3
429 Tomislav Brkic 2008 $1,582 3-6
430 Nikola Cacic 2008 $1,579 3-7
431 John-Patrick Smith 2007 $1,576 1-2
432 Malek Jaziri 2002 $1,569 3-4
433 Dominic Stricker 2020 $1,568 4-3
434 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi 1998 $1,552 5-3
435 Christian Bergstrom 1985 $1,550 1-1
436 Antoine Bellier 2014 $1,519 5-5
437 Yannick Hanfmann 2009 $1,518 4-9
438 Juan Pablo Varillas 2013 $1,512 2-5
439 Alejandro Falla 2001 $1,482 2-2
440 Fernando Vicente 1995 $1,465 0-1
441 Daniel Gimeno-Traver 2003 $1,441 2-7
442 Jonathan Stark 1989 $1,437 1-1
443 Paolo Lorenzi 1999 $1,399 3-6
444 Juan Ignacio Chela 1997 $1,390 0-2
445 Blaz Rola 2008 $1,375 2-4
446 Aleksandar Vukic 2014 $1,354 6-6
447 Joao Domingues 2011 $1,346 2-5
448 Adrian Voinea 1992 $1,340 -
449 Fabian Marozsan 2017 $1,340 0-6
450 Sam Weissborn 2009 $1,301 2-5
451 Lukas Rosol 2003 $1,299 2-5
452 Nicolas Kicker 2010 $1,272 2-7
453 Daniel Vacek 1989 $1,242 0-1
454 Daniel Nestor 1990 $1,220 -
455 Victor Hanescu 1999 $1,211 2-3
456 Tim Henman 1992 $1,210 0-0
457 Arthur Fery 2020 $1,206 3-4
458 Fernando Meligeni 1989 $1,202 2-2
459 Roman Jebavy 2007 $1,193 3-4
460 Philipp Oswald 2004 $1,148 0-2
461 Matthew Ebden 2005 $1,147 2-4
462 Facundo Diaz Acosta 2018 $1,092 4-2
463 Slava Dosedel 1988 $1,077 1-1
464 Carlos Moya 1994 $1,060 -
465 Brandon Holt 2016 $1,054 0-3
466 Attila Balazs 2006 $1,053 1-3
467 Gilbert Schaller 1987 $1,021 0-3
468 Daniel Dutra da Silva 2006 $1,013 4-3
469 Filip Polasek 2003 $1,010 1-1
470 Albano Olivetti 2009 $1,006 1-7
471 Florian Mayer 2001 $996 1-4
472 Henrik Holm 1986 $973 -
473 Albert Montanes 1998 $956 4-3
474 Franco Squillari 1993 $950 1-2
475 Francisco Cerundolo 2016 $948 4-6
476 Oliver Crawford 2017 $906 2-4
477 Oscar Otte 2011 $888 1-5
478 Edouard Roger-Vasselin 2001 $886 1-5
479 Henri Laaksonen 2010 $884 3-4
480 Guillermo Canas 1995 $875 1-2
481 Ivan Dodig 2003 $838 3-3
482 Filip Misolic 2019 $828 2-4
483 Potito Starace 1999 $818 2-3
484 Horacio Zeballos 2003 $816 3-4
485 Franco Agamenone 2011 $790 1-6
486 Ariel Behar 2007 $783 0-5
487 Alessandro Giannessi 2008 $781 2-3
488 Arthur Rinderknech 2013 $722 1-4
489 Hyung-Taik Lee 1994 $705 0-1
490 Max Mirnyi 1995 $705 1-1
491 Stefan Koubek 1995 $700 0-0
492 Scott Draper 1992 $695 0-0
493 Shuzo Matsuoka 1985 $693 0-1
494 Paul Jubb 2017 $672 2-3
495 Jan-Lennard Struff 2008 $656 0-2
496 Gilles Simon 2002 $654 1-4
497 Prajnesh Gunneswaran 2007 $638 0-2
498 Jacco Eltingh 1988 $637 0-1
499 Julien Benneteau 1999 $607 3-3
500 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 2001 $590 2-2
501 Aslan Karatsev 2011 $584 1-3
502 Jamie Murray 2004 $561 0-1
503 Fabrice Martin 2004 $552 1-3
504 Igor Andreev 2001 $528 0-3
505 Patrick Rafter 1990 $520 1-1
506 Hicham Arazi 1991 $520 0-1
507 Kenneth Carlsen 1991 $520 0-1
508 John Millman 2007 $476 1-2
509 Gijs Brouwer 2014 $472 0-1
510 Raphael Collignon 2020 $468 0-3
511 Marc-Andrea Huesler 2014 $444 2-2
512 Steve Darcis 2002 $435 2-1
513 Mats Moraing 2010 $429 0-2
514 Lukas Neumayer 2020 $416 0-3
515 Hans Hach Verdugo 2007 $408 1-2
516 Jozef Kovalik 2010 $408 1-3
517 Matej Sabanov 2010 $401 0-1
518 Jonas Bjorkman 1990 $365 0-0
519 Dennis Novak 2011 $354 0-4
520 Lloyd Glasspool 2011 $318 2-3
521 Andre Goransson 2012 $318 1-2
522 Christopher O'Connell 2012 $318 1-3
523 Mariano Puerta 1996 $315 -
524 Salvatore Caruso 2010 $311 0-3
525 Pierre-Hugues Herbert 2009 $294 0-3
526 Mikhail Kukushkin 2005 $290 1-1
527 Nicolas Moreno De Alboran 2015 $273 1-1
528 Aleksandar Kovacevic 2016 $270 1-1
529 Rainer Schuettler 1994 $260 0-1
530 Hugo Nys 2009 $247 -
531 Illya Marchenko 2005 $208 0-1
532 Steve Johnson 2007 $200 1-1
533 Hernan Gumy 1990 $182 -
534 Ivan Sabanov 2010 $135 -
535 Alexander Volkov 1985 $130 -
536 Jean-Julien Rojer 1999 $130 -
537 Radek Stepanek 1996 $90 -
538 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 1996 $90 -
539 Dominik Koepfer 2012 $90 -
540 Gianluca Mager 2012 $90 -
541 Wayne Arthurs 1989 $86 -
542 Andrea Vavassori 2013 $64 -
543 Manuel Guinard 2013 $54 0-2
544 Michael Stich 1986 $43 -
545 Lorenzo Sonego 2013 $36 -

The biggest seasons at 18 before 2010

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

The five biggest seasons at 18 before 2010, by prize money won.
# PLAYER YEAR PRIZE MONEY
1 Michael Chang 1990 $866,070
2 Andre Agassi 1988 $812,062
3 Boris Becker 1985 $617,998
4 Rafael Nadal 2004 $447,758
5 Lleyton Hewitt 1999 $411,771

18 against the ages either side

The median season and the record at each age

0 players peaked at 18
The median season, the biggest season and the number of players whose best season came at that age, for the ages around 18.
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
21 $77,820 Carlos Alcaraz $10,958,626$11.0m 19

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 18 is higher than at 17 and lower than at 19.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most prize money a tennis player has won at 18?

Carlos Alcaraz won $1,632,678 in 2021, singles and doubles together. Before 2010 the most at 18 was Michael Chang's $866,070 in 1990.

How much prize money does a tennis player win at 18?

The median season at 18 among the 696 men we hold paid $5,654. 1 of the 545 seasons at 18 paid a million dollars or more.

Was 18 Carlos Alcaraz's best year?

No. His biggest season came in 2025, at 22, when he won $21,354,778.

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

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.