{"id":9109,"date":"2014-07-11T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T23:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=9109"},"modified":"2014-07-11T07:54:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T23:54:37","slug":"us-open-boasts-record-prize-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2014\/07\/11\/us-open-boasts-record-prize-money","title":{"rendered":"US Open Boasts Record Prize Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9110\" alt=\"Arthur-Ashe-Stadium-700x450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/07\/Arthur-Ashe-Stadium-700x450.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s and women\u2019s champions at this year\u2019s US Open will each receive $US3 million ($A3.25 million) of a record $US38.3 million ($A41.4 million) total purse, the United States Tennis Association announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The payout for the singles champions is the largest in US Open history as tournament organisers also increased the payout for winners of each round of the singles competition.<\/p>\n<p>The total purse is an 11.7 per cent increase over last year\u2019s tournament and in the last three years the main draw prizemoney is up by 64 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year to recognise the importance of the players and the key role they have in building our sport, the USTA shared our vision to reach $US50 million ($A54.10 million) in prizemoney at the US Open by 2017,\u201d said Dave Haggerty, USTA chairman of the board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s prizemoney increase continues the commitment to make the US Open one of the most lucrative purses in all of sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 US Open is scheduled for 25 August until 8 September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men\u2019s and women\u2019s champions at this year\u2019s US Open will each receive $US3 million ($A3.25 million) of a record $US38.3 million ($A41.4 million) total purse, the United States Tennis Association announced on Wednesday. The payout for the singles champions is the largest in US Open history as tournament organisers also increased the payout for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}