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TENNIS · PRIZE MONEY · AGE 41

Tennis prize money at 41

Jean-Julien Rojer won $815,215 in 2022, the year he turned 41. That is the most any of the 696 men we hold won at 41, across 35 seasons. The median season at 41 paid $36,423.

MOST AT 41 $815,215 Jean-Julien Rojer, 2022
MEDIAN SEASON $36,423 21st of 27 ages
SEASONS 35 none at seven figures
MOST BEFORE 2010 $27,385 Jimmy Connors, 1993

The twenty biggest seasons at 41

Prize money won in the calendar year a player turned 41, singles and doubles together

Every season at 41

Ranked by prize money. Win-loss is singles.

35 seasons
Every season a tennis player we hold had in the year he turned 41, ranked by prize money won, with the year and his singles win-loss record.
# PLAYER YEAR PRIZE MONEY W-L
1 Jean-Julien Rojer 2022 $815,215 -
2 Horacio Zeballos 2026 $804,103 -
3 Stan Wawrinka 2026 $779,767 8-18
4 Simone Bolelli 2026 $778,627 -
5 Rajeev Ram 2025 $501,583 -
6 Maximo Gonzalez 2024 $499,813 -
7 Edouard Roger-Vasselin 2024 $402,603 -
8 Feliciano Lopez 2022 $395,871 1-16
9 Marcelo Melo 2024 $355,364 -
10 Nicolas Mahut 2023 $349,078 -
11 Daniel Nestor 2013 $270,556 -
12 Leander Paes 2014 $236,571 -
13 Rohan Bopanna 2021 $190,263 0-1
14 Ivo Karlovic 2020 $186,886 4-8
15 Max Mirnyi 2018 $164,556 -
16 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi 2021 $154,734 0-1
17 Matwe Middelkoop 2024 $123,744 -
18 Raven Klaasen 2023 $36,423 -
19 Jimmy Connors 1993 $27,385 3-5
20 Jonas Bjorkman 2013 $10,348 -
21 Xavier Malisse 2021 $5,089 -
22 Jacco Eltingh 2011 $2,952 -
23 Michael Stich 2009 $2,645 -
24 Lukasz Kubot 2023 $2,334 -
25 Mikael Tillstrom 2013 $1,456 -
26 Ilie Nastase 1987 $1,293 -
27 Nicolas Lapentti 2017 $1,245 -
28 Pat Cash 2006 $975 -
29 Johan Kriek 1999 $750 -
30 Francisco Clavet 2009 $549 -
31 Jeff Tarango 2009 $300 1-1
32 Davide Sanguinetti 2013 $261 -
33 Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 2019 $252 0-1
34 Albert Portas 2014 $192 0-1
35 Andrei Medvedev 2015 $38 -

The biggest seasons at 41 before 2010

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

The five biggest seasons at 41 before 2010, by prize money won.
# PLAYER YEAR PRIZE MONEY
1 Jimmy Connors 1993 $27,385
2 Michael Stich 2009 $2,645
3 Ilie Nastase 1987 $1,293
4 Pat Cash 2006 $975
5 Johan Kriek 1999 $750

41 against the ages either side

The median season and the record at each age

0 players peaked at 41
The median season, the biggest season and the number of players whose best season came at that age, for the ages around 41.
AGE MEDIAN MOST PRIZE MONEY PEAKED
38 $249,679 Roger Federer $8,716,976$8.7m 1
39 $176,127 Novak Djokovic $3,000,801$3.0m 4
40 $171,094 Horacio Zeballos $1,527,732$1.5m 2
41 $36,423 Jean-Julien Rojer $815,215 0

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.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most prize money a tennis player has won at 41?

Jean-Julien Rojer won $815,215 in 2022, singles and doubles together. Before 2010 the most at 41 was Jimmy Connors's $27,385 in 1993.

How much prize money does a tennis player win at 41?

The median season at 41 among the 696 men we hold paid $36,423. 0 of the 35 seasons at 41 paid a million dollars or more.

Was 41 Jean-Julien Rojer's best year?

No. His biggest season came in 2015, at 34, when he won $890,346.

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.