The prize money for the Indian Wells tournament has been revealed, with the women\u2019s champion taking home more cash than their male rivals.<\/p>\n
For the first time since 2009, the prize money at the 2025 BNP Paribas Open is not being distributed equally between the ATP and WTA tours, with a 2.13% difference between the two.<\/p>\n
The total combined prize money was $19,387,080, with the ATP tour receiving $9,693,540 and the WTA tour receiving $9,489,532. This represented a rise of 6.63% from 2024.<\/p>\n
Yet the WTA Tour have confirmed that they have opted to give their champion more than the ATP Tour Masters 1000 winner at the same venue.<\/p>\n
So while the men\u2019s champion in Indian Wells will collect\u00a0$1,201,125, the women\u2019s champion will get a little more at $1,127,500.<\/p>\n
The difference in cash distribution is also reflected across the draw, with losing finalists in the men\u2019s tournament getting $638,750 and the women\u2019s runner-up getting $599,625.<\/p>\n
Losing semi-finals in the men\u2019s event get $354,850 in prize money, which is a little more than the $333,125 female last four players collect.<\/p>\n
The WTA Tour opted to give more money to players who go out in the earlier rounds of the competition, with players knocked out in the first round getting $30,801 and second round losers collecting $43,050. Those figures are more than male players who were knocked out early in the California desert.<\/p>\n
This variable prize money distribution will not be reflected at the Miami Open that gets underway imminently, with prize money in the second part of the \u2018Sunshine Double\u2019 equal for the ATP Tour and WTA Tour events:<\/p>\n
Miami ranking points and prize money
\nFirst round: 10 points | $23,760
\nSecond round: 35 points | $35,260
\nThird round: 65 points | $60,400
\nRound of 16: 120 points | $103,225
\nQuarterfinals: 215 points | $189,075
\nSemifinals: 390 points | $332,160
\nFinalist: 650 points | $597,890
\nChampion: 1000 points | $1,124,380<\/p>\n
With the WTA Tour generating a lot less revenue than the ATP Tour in television revenue, it is tough for many tournaments to pay equal prize money when they are hosting men\u2019s and women\u2019s events.<\/p>\n
All four Grand Slam tournaments pay men and women the same money, even though one plays best-of-five-set matches and the other only competes over three sets.<\/p>\n
It means that male players need to stay on court for longer to earn the same amount of money, with 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal offering his comments on the equal pay debate last year.<\/p>\n
Five-time Grand Slam winner makes bold Jack Draper prediction after Carlos Alcaraz upset<\/a><\/p>\n Who tops the tennis rich list? Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic battle it out<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to be hypocritical and say things that are easy to say and that I don\u2019t feel. What do you want me to say? For me, the investment for women should be the same as for men,\u201d said Nadal.<\/p>\n \u201cThe opportunities, the same. The salaries, the same? No, for what? It\u2019s not unfair, what\u2019s unfair is that there isn\u2019t equal opportunity.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a mother and a sister. If you tell me that men and women deserve the same opportunities, I\u2019m a feminist. This term is taken to the extreme. If we\u2019re talking about logical and normal things in this conversation, of course I want equality.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, equality isn\u2019t about giving away gifts, but if Serena Williams earns more than me, I want her to earn more than me. I want equality, I want women to earn more than men if they generate more than men.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat bothers me is when people tell me that income and earnings should be equal. In tennis, for some reason, the payouts are almost equal in most events because at the time there was an opportunity for women\u2019s tennis to be seen.<\/p>\n \u201cWomen\u2019s tennis is very popular around the world. I don\u2019t want to get into a fight about this, the problem for me is the discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Did Carlos Alcaraz make a \u2018big mistake\u2019 with his comments after Jack Draper defeat?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Indian Wells prize money: Why the women\u2019s champion gets more than the men\u2019s winner<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The prize money for the Indian Wells tournament has been revealed, with the women\u2019s champion taking home more cash than their male rivals. For the first time since 2009, the prize money at the 2025 BNP Paribas Open is not being distributed equally between the ATP and WTA tours, with a 2.13% difference between the […]<\/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-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}