Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek added to their already significant legacies in 2025, with both women tasting further Grand Slam success.<\/p>\n
And, their triumphs throughout 2025 saw both world No 1 Sabalenka<\/a> and world No 2 Swiatek<\/a> join an exclusive prize money club, becoming just the fourth and fifth women to earn over $10m in an individual season.<\/p>\n Here, we look at the six greatest prize money seasons in WTA Tour<\/a> history, and how Sabalenka and Swiatek\u2019s years compare to other leading seasons of the past.<\/p>\n Swiatek earned over $8.4m in 2024, and over $9.5m in both 2022 and 2023, though her 2025 prize money haul is now the biggest of her career.<\/p>\n The Pole earned $10,112,532 across 2025, her highest ever total in a season, and the sixth-highest season tally ever on the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n Swiatek\u2019s year was highlighted by the \u00a33,000,000 \u2014 close to $4,000,000 \u2014 she earned for her stunning Wimbledon triumph, with further Cincinnati Open and Korea Open triumphs to her name.<\/p>\n Kerber\u2019s 2016 was by far and away the greatest season of her career, with the German\u2019s stunning rise propelling her to the year-end world No 1 ranking.<\/p>\n Her season was highlighted by Australian Open and US Open triumphs, as well as success at the Stuttgart Open, alongside runner-up finishes at Wimbledon and the WTA Finals.<\/p>\n Why \u2018Battle of the Sexes\u2019 showdown between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios is missing the point<\/a><\/p>\n How much prize money Iga Swiatek earned in 2025 compared to her previous seasons<\/a><\/p>\n Kerber ended the year with $10,136,615 in winnings \u2014 close to one-third of her career prize money, and the fifth-highest ever won in a WTA season.<\/p>\n The first of two Williams appearances on this list, the legendary American earned over $10m for the second occasion during her historic 2015 campaign.<\/p>\n She won the Australian Open, French Open, and Wimbledon before a semi-final showing at the US Open, also winning the Miami Open and Cincinnati Open that season.<\/p>\n Williams\u2019 haul of $10,582,642 was the second-highest she ever won in a season, and the fourth-highest of all time on the WTA Tour.<\/p>\n 2019 was Barty\u2019s incredible breakout season, with the Australian rising to world No 1, and sealing her first Grand Slam title at the French Open.<\/p>\n Barty was also the Miami Open and Birmingham Classic champion that year, and banked a then-record $4,420,000 thanks to her triumph at the WTA Finals in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n That triumph propelled the Australian to a staggering $11,307,587 for the year, the third-highest WTA prize money season in women\u2019s tennis history.<\/p>\n The second Williams appearance on this list, the American\u2019s $12,385,572 won in 2013 was the record WTA prize money season up until now.<\/p>\n It was undoubtedly one of the most dominant seasons of the tennis icon\u2019s career, winning a staggering 11 WTA titles in total \u2014 including victories at the French Open and US Open.<\/p>\n With further WTA 1000 triumphs in Miami, Madrid, Rome, Toronto, and Beijing to her name, as well as victory at the WTA Finals, Williams was well-rewarded for one of modern tennis\u2019 greatest seasons.<\/p>\n Williams\u2019 record has now been broken by Sabalenka, who is now the first woman in history to earn over $15m in a single season of WTA Tour action.<\/p>\n The highlight of Sabalenka\u2019s season was undoubtedly her triumph at the US Open, which banked her a staggering $5,000,000 in winnings.<\/p>\n The Belarusian was also the Miami Open, Madrid Open, and Brisbane International champion in 2025, and attained five further runner-up finishes \u2014 including at Roland Garros, the Australian Open, and the WTA Finals.<\/p>\n Sabalenka ended 2025 with $15,008,519 in winnings, a stunning new prize money record.<\/p>\n Read Next<\/strong>: Emma Raducanu\u2019s prize money total for 2025 revealed as her net worth and assets soar<\/a><\/p>\n The post The historic prize money milestone hit by Aryna Sabalenka & Iga Swiatek in 2025<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek added to their already significant legacies in 2025, with both women tasting further Grand Slam success. And, their triumphs throughout 2025 saw both world No 1 Sabalenka and world No 2 Swiatek join an exclusive prize money club, becoming just the fourth and fifth women to earn over $10m in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}6) Iga Swiatek, 2025 \u2013 $10,112,532<\/h2>\n
5) Angelique Kerber, 2016 \u2013 $10,136,615<\/h2>\n
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4) Serena Williams, 2015 \u2013 $10,582,642<\/h2>\n
3) Ashleigh Barty, 2019 \u2013 $11,307,587<\/h2>\n
2) Serena Williams, 2013 \u2013 $12,385,572<\/h2>\n
1) Aryna Sabalenka, 2025 \u2013 $15,008,519<\/h2>\n