Carlos Alcaraz, who lost the final of the Six Kings Slam to Sinner 2-6, 4-6, stopped earning six million dollars and that means he is no longer the tennis player who has earned the most money for his results this year.
This competition is not included in the ATP calendar, but it has the biggest prize money ever given in a tournament and the winner was once again the same as in the first, Sinner, who was superior to Alcaraz on the hard court of the Kingdom Arena in the capital of Saudi Arabia.
With this triumph, the Italian overtakes the Spaniard in terms of on-court earnings, as Sinner took home seven and a half million dollars this week – one and a half for participating, like each of the six players present – and six more for the title.
Before this appointment, he had achieved, according to official ATP figures, more than 12 million, specifically 12,346,528. In just a few days playing three matches in an exhibition in the Arab lands, he pocketed more than half of what he obtained having played 49 matches on the circuit and won three trophies – the Grand Slams of Australia and Wimbledon and the ATP 500 in Beijing. With his hefty prize money in the Six Kings Slam, he reaches $19,846,528.
Alcaraz, who at 22 years of age is the number one in the world just ahead of Sinner, arrived in Riyadh with earnings from his triumphs in 2025 of $16,048,017, to which he now adds the million and a half for playing two matches in the Saudi capital, where he beat American Taylor Fritz 6-4, 6-2 in the semifinals before losing in the final.
The battle between the two best tennis players today, and who are likely to be so for the next few years, is also on the financial front. The Spaniard, since his debut as a professional in 2020, has pocketed $53,902,993 for what he has done on the court in tournaments on the circuit – exhibitions and, obviously, advertising are in other separate items – while Sinner, who turned professional in 2018, is on $49,591,462.
Of the active players, the record is held by Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, winner of 100 titles and 24 majors, and who, at 38 years of age, is approaching 200 million – he has accumulated 190,526,213 – throughout a career at the highest level that began in 2003.
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