Tennis players who won the most in 2020

The 2020 season was a year of reductions: there was no audience, there were far fewer tournaments and also much less money to distribute. The data is clear and as long as all this does not change, it will continue to be so in the coming months. Tennis players have not only seen their earnings reduced by playing less, but also because direct prizes fell deeply in the tournaments that could be held.

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But this decrease in prizes is not only due to the reduction in tournaments and their ‘prizemoney’, but also to a more equitable distribution between the different rounds, distributing more in the first and not so much among the last.

The 2019 season, one that was completely normal, fought a battle between two players, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic, which had the winner of the season in Spanish, with earnings of more than 16 million, for just over 13 million for Novak Djokovic. Far behind them, Federer and Thiem, with just over $ 8 million in earnings on the circuit.

With regard to 2020, everything has been falling to less than half Profits for whom in 2020 has pocketed greater amounts of money. In another even tighter battle, Novak Djokovic has ended the year with more than 6 million dollars in prizes, being very close to Dominci Thiem, the second in prizes. Nadal, despite winning Roland Garros, was less than half.

ATP year-end prize money leaders, 2019 vs 2020 pic.twitter.com/8saPJK099O

— Oleg S. (@AnnaK_4ever) November 23, 2020

These two lists contrast with the money put into play and the number of players who have been able to access important amounts. Tsitsipas, 7th in 2019, made more money than Djokovic in 2020, while you have to look at 14th on the 2020 list (Felix-Auger Aliassime, with 1,238,721) to find an amount similar to that of player number 44 in earnings in 2019 (Sousa, 1,223,400).

From the top-10 of 2020 to the top-10 of 2019 there are three players (Federer, Berrettini and Monfils) and another three (Schwartzman, Carreño and Rublev) enter, in a classification, like all those that have been formed, which we hope will do not see each other again in the return to a normality to which he still has to return.