The Association of Tennis Players (ATP), the organizer of tennis’ elite professional tour, has announced a record profit-sharing figure of $18.3 million relating to its top-tier ATP Masters 1000 tournaments.
That figure, covering the 2024 campaign, is drawn from the profits of the nine annual Masters 1000 tournaments, which are split 50-50 between contestants and tournament organizers, and represents a 177% increase on the $6.6 million profit-sharing total from the 2023 season.
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Money from that total will be distributed to players based on their seasonal performance across the events, and, when combined with the total prize money from across the Masters 1000 tournaments, a record $261 million, and prize money from the four Grand Slam majors, means that total combined ATP player compensation hit $378 million.
Additionally, the ATP revealed that, thus far in 2025, player proceeds from its developmental Challenger Tour, $28.5 million (up 28% on 2024), and its ATP 500 event series bonus pool, $3 million (up 131% on 2024), are also tracking at record levels.
Speaking on the high levels of player compensation, ATP chair Andrea Gaudenzi commented: “This is exactly what profit sharing was designed to do: ensure that players and tournaments share equally in the sport’s financial upside.
“$18.3 million is a huge milestone. For us, it’s proof that strengthening the premium product and aligning interests creates value. We’re proud to be strengthening our partnership and building a stronger, more sustainable ATP Tour.”
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By GlobalDataThe ATP’s profit-sharing program was put into place in 2022 as part of the overall strategic plan called OneVision, to establish “robust foundations for future growth of the sport”.
Part of the plan was the implementation of financial audits on the ATP tournaments for the first time to bring greater transparency to players, from which the profit sharing is derived.
At the time, Gaudenzi confirmed that the profit-sharing deal, as well as the plan as a whole, will run for 30 years until 2053.
This plan also sees prize money increase by 2.5% each year at the Masters 1000 events.
Players receive a percentage of profits based on their performance in all of the tournaments; however, if the competitions lose money, the base prize money would remain the same.
