Not only will the 2016 French Open be another Grand Slam tournament for the ages, it will also mark the event’s highest-prized installment to date. As such, you can expect all of the ATP’s greats to give it their all at Roland Garros beginning this Sunday for a shot at hoisting the Coupe des Mousquetaires, as well as a hefty paycheck at that.
Let’s break down the total purse at stake this week from lovely Paris below. Afterwards, check out our complete preview for the tournament itself to know which exact players can net you some sweet winnings from all the intense tennis betting action ahead.
2016 is the final year of the French Open committee’s four-year plan of raising the tournament’s total prize money. And with that, a whopping total of €12 million is at stake – €12,032,000 to be exact or about $13.6 million – for each of Roland Garros’ singles competitions both from the ATP and the WTA this year.
The €12 million prize pool is made even more attractive for tennis players looking to simply cash in from the event when you consider that the total prize pool in 2015 was just at €10.45 million. That’s a whopping 15-percent increase year-on-year, which is almost unheard of in other sports using a similar pay structure.
Having said that, perhaps the biggest winners of this new prize-money distribution scheme are the ones that make it as far as merely the third round of the tournament, who will take home no less than 100,000 Euros beginning at that leg of the event as compared to just €85,000 in 2015.
Then again, who wants to settle for just a hundred grand when you can take home a cool €2 million all on your own as this year’s French Open champion, right?
The Complete Breakdown
*per singles tournament
Tournament Finish
No. of Players
Payout Amount per Player
Winner
1
€2,000,000
Runner-up
1
€1,000,000
Semi-finalists
2
€500,000
Quarter-finalists
4
€294,000
Round of 16 losers
8
€173,000
Round of 32 losers
16
€102,000
Round of 64 losers
32
€60,000
Round of 128 losers
64
€30,000
TOTAL
128
€12,032,000
Create a betting account now to cash in from all the intense tennis action set to take place at Roland Garros before it’s too late.
