The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, with this success at Roland Garros of 2022, where he won the beauty of 2 million and 200 thousand euros, overtook Roger Federer for the first time in his career in the overall prize, settling in second place behind only Novak Djokovic who seems decidedly inaccessible.
Rafael Nadal surpasses Roger Federer in prize money.
So, speaking of rankings and records, not only the positions in the world ranking of the different tennis players have changed but also that of the prize money.
Indeed, Nadal is at 130,681,472 dollars while the current world number one is at 156,541,453 dollars. But it’s not just the Big Three to talk about. In the top ten of this special ranking we find another tennis player who in this Roland Garros becomes as competitive as he has always been in his career: Marin Cilic.
The Croatian tennis player only made it to the semi-finals against Ruud after defeating Medvedev and Rublev in the round of 16 and quarter-finals respectively. The 33-year-old giant reached the semi-finals in Paris for the first time in his career and also moved up to tenth place in the men’s prize money standings at $30,468,623.
Cilic’s career has 567 wins (64.07% match success rate), one Grand Slam – the US Open in 2014 against Kei Nishikori and two final losses against Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2017 and at the Open d Australia in 2018.
In total, he has twenty titles, where in addition to the Grand Slam in New York, he also won the Cincinnati 1000 in 2016 against Andy Murray. Coming back to the prize money, for a change, even in this ranking, the fabulous three are in charge.
While besides Cilic, there are three other tennis players who are active. The main protagonist of Roland Garros 2022 which ended almost a week ago was undoubtedly Rafael Nadal.
The Spaniard, after dominating the final against Casper Ruud, lifted his twenty-second Grand Slam trophy in the Parisian sky, including the fourteenth in France. Here is the ranking of the ‘Prize Money’: 1 Novak Djokovic $156,541,543 2 Raphaël Nadal $130,681,472 3 Roger Federer $130,594,339 4 Andy Murray $62,733,749 5 Pete Sampras $43,280,489 6 Stan Wawrinak 34,953,913 $ 7 Alexandre Zverev $32,407,055 8 David Ferrer $31,152,975 9 André Agassi $31,152,975 10 Marin Cilic $30,468,623
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