Elena Rybakina has successfully captured her first Australian Open title, battling past Aryna Sabalenka in a thrilling three-set battle to lift the title in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
A 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 victory for fifth seed Rybakina<\/a> sees her capture her second Grand Slam title, following her Wimbledon triumph in 2022, while two-time Australian Open<\/a> champion Sabalenka<\/a> has now lost in the final for the past two years.<\/p>\n Here, we look at the prize money and ranking points that both women will take home after their women\u2019s singles final on Saturday night.<\/p>\n As one of the four Grand Slam events, a significant amount of ranking points were on offer at this year\u2019s Australian Open.<\/p>\n Heading into the tournament, Sabalenka was guaranteed to remain as the world No 1 regardless of the result<\/a>, though world No 5 Rybakina had the chance to move further up the WTA Rankings.<\/p>\n For lifting the title in Melbourne, Rybakina takes home a staggering 2,000 ranking points after Saturday\u2019s triumph.<\/p>\n Having lost in the fourth round twelve months ago, the Kazakh will move to 7,610 points when the WTA Rankings update next Monday and will return to her career-high of world No 3, overtaking Amanda Anisimova and Coco Gauff<\/a>.<\/p>\n She will be just 368 points behind world No 2 Iga Swiatek, potentially putting herself in striking distance of a new career high this spring.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz fires back at Alexander Zverev\u2019s \u2018bulls***\u2019 criticism after being accused of being \u2018protected\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Novak Djokovic \u2018lost for words\u2019 after rolling back the years to end Jannik Sinner\u2019s title defence hopes<\/a><\/p>\n Meanwhile, for finishing as the runner-up at the tournament, Sabalenka will take home a not-insignificant 1,300 points for her WTA ranking.<\/p>\n That sees the world No 1 remain on 10,990 points in the WTA Rankings, though \u2014 despite defeat on Saturday \u2014 her lead at the top has increased after Swiatek\u2019s quarter-final exit.<\/p>\n Record prize money for this year\u2019s Australian Open was announced ahead of the tournament<\/a>, and both women will take home significant winnings from the event.<\/p>\n For lifting the title, Rybakina will take home a staggering A$4,150,000, up from the A$3,500,000 awarded to Madison Keys for her women\u2019s singles triumph in 2025.<\/p>\n Rybakina\u2019s prize money is the approximate equivalent of US$2,888,400 or \u00a32,110.336.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Sabalenka will take home A$2,150,000 for her run to a fourth straight final in Melbourne, up from the A$1,900,000 won by the world No 1 for her runner-up finish twelve months ago.<\/p>\n The Belarusian\u2019s 2026 runner-up prize money is the approximate equivalent of US$1,496,400 or \u00a31,093,307.<\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Next<\/strong>: Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev\u2019s Australian Open prize money & ranking points revealed<\/a><\/p>\n The post Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s Australian Open prize money & ranking points revealed<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elena Rybakina has successfully captured her first Australian Open title, battling past Aryna Sabalenka in a thrilling three-set battle to lift the title in Melbourne. A 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 victory for fifth seed Rybakina sees her capture her second Grand Slam title, following her Wimbledon triumph in 2022, while two-time Australian Open champion Sabalenka has […]<\/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-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","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=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What ranking points did Sabalenka and Rybakina earn?<\/h2>\n
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