DC Open pays men’s winner US$353,445 while the women’s champion earns US$120,150.
A poster hanging at the DC Open site shows Frances Tiafoe – a competitor in the field from nearby Maryland – flanked by other men such as Andy Murray and Taylor Fritz and women such as Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula.
While ostensibly that puts the men and women on equal footing in Washington – where players both will be trying to win a trophy and to prepare for the U.S. Open, the year’s last Grand Slam tournament – it still is not equal all the way around. “Our main goal is to work toward equal prize money. That is what we want on the WTA side and what we think is fair. Especially at the combined events, we don’t want to see a discrepancy there. We want to see that we’re earning the same at the same event,” said Pegula, an American who is No. 3 in the rankings and seeded No. 1 in Washington, and a member of the women’s tour’s player council. “The fans are coming to watch both of us, and we should be making the same.
“That will give everyone a chance to hopefully get revenues to grow to be able to afford it,” said Mark Ein, who has been the tournament chairman since 2019 and is part of the group that recently bought the NFL’s Washington Commanders from Dan Snyder.
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