According to ESPN, in 2007 Justine Henin won the most money on the women's tour at $5,429,586. Coming in at 25th highest earnings was Alicia Molik at $583,597. 100th was Ekaterina Bychkova at $150,695. Roger Federer won the most money on the men's tour in 2007 at $10,130,620. Juan Monaco was 25th at $695,945 and Robby Ginepri was 100th at $264,765.
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Prior to the 1970's, tennis players did not win large amounts of money, as they do, today. The "honor" of winning a trophy, along with the fame and glory that accompanied it, was deemed far more important. Since sponsorships were very rare in those days, most tennis players were well-to-do, and could afford to travel the world to play the sport with their own resources. Today, professional tennis players do not have a fixed salary. They make money from endorsements, sponsorships, and prize money. Tennis players can make a few hundred or thousand dollars winning matches in low-level and satellite tournaments, and hundreds of thousand dollars by winning major championships, such as those of the Grand Slam events.
It depends on how many tournaments the player wins, and how high the player got in a tournament (if the player didn't win).
This could mean a paycheck from just a thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Whatever the tournament is giving out. I think usually the grandslams are 1.2 million. Also, if you think about sponsors a top 2 tennis player would make about $70million in there career. I remember after Michael Chang had won the French Open, he was sponsored $50million.
It depends on what match it is. Big matches can cost a lot but little matches are in the thousands.
On average a solid (top 200) professional tennis player earns about USD$500,000 at the end of his/her career.