British Tennis Forum

Cornelia one of two British players in the series 1 Open de Royan - plays South African Charlotte Fairbank in last 16, also doubles partner.

The other is Greg Slade in quad, plays Escobar of Colombia in his opener (last 8) and partners Donald Ramphadi of South Africa in quad doubles

To give folks an idea of how much money is on offer for wheelchair tennis at the slams.

On the normal tour, the Super Series events have prizemoney around $70k for an event, with usually 50+ players spread across the 3 disciplines. A series 1 event is around $32k and fields total between 20 and 50 players in these events. Series 2 come in at $14k

So not massive, futures level really.

The slams all have 40/48 players taking part (16 men, 16 women, 8-16 quad depending on slam) and the prizemoney in 2025 is:

Australian Open AUD $1.6m (AUD $109k to winner of singles - about USD$70k )

French Open 890k Euros (EUR 63k to winner of singles - about USD$70k)

Wimbledon c£1.1m plus (£1m plus around 5-10% uplift - winner gets £65k, about USD$87k)

US Open $1.5m (with winner getting about USD $100k)

Most of the seasons prizemoney is in the slams and the 40 plus players who are in it make most of their money from it. If a player managed to win the grand slam of singles titles, they would earn around $325k from that, plus sponsorship/endorsements on the back of it). Players like Alfie, Tokito Oda, etc do very well from the sport. Below the top 16 and it is hard to make any sort of living

Greg Slade lost to top seeded Kaplan today in the Royan event in France. Cornelia has played but score not yet up.

This is the final warm up for the French Open, although neither Brit will be there, given the limited field for slams and the top loading they inevitably get (big money and glory).