On May 5, local time, the French Internet Association officially announced the distribution of the 2022 French Open prize. As the second Grand Slam event of the year, the total prize money of this year's French Open reached 43.6 million euros. Compared with the bonuses that have shrunk due to the impact of the epidemic in the past two years, this year's French Open has fully restored the level before the epidemic in terms of bonuses.
Compared with 2019 before the epidemic, the total prize money of the French Open this year has increased by 6.8%. The increase in the prize money is mainly used to take care of those low-ranked players, from the first round of the qualifying round to the first round of the main round, the prize money amount has been greatly improved compared to 2019, and from the second round of the competition, the prize money amount has decreased relatively.
According to this year's French Open prize money distribution, the first round of qualifying can receive 14,000 euros, which is double that of three years ago. The prize money in the second round of the qualifiers reached 20,000 euros, and in the third round it reached 31,000 euros. The bonus amount of these two rounds has also been greatly improved.
As long as you can enter the main round, you can get a prize of 62,000 euros (about 430,000 yuan) even if you stop in the first round. The second round of prize money can reach 86,000 euros, which is a slight decline compared to 2019. The third round can get 125,800 euros, the fourth round can get 220,000 euros, the quarterfinals can get 380,000 euros, the final four prize money is 600,000 euros, the runner-up can be divided into 1.1 million euros, and the championship prize money is 2.2 million euros.
When Nadal beat Thiem to win his 12th French Open title in 2019, he received a prize of €2.3 million. This year's championship prize money is 100,000 euros lower. The runner-up prize is also 80,000 euros lower than 3 years ago, and only the top four prizes in the high round have increased, and this year's final four prize money is 10,000 euros higher than three years ago.
Although the increase is not large compared to 3 years ago, if compared with last year, this year's bonus amount has been significantly increased. Last year, due to the impact of the epidemic, the prize money for the French Open champion was only 1.4 million euros, the runner-up was 750,000 euros, and the prize money for the final four was 375,000 euros.