Overall, the tournament’s prize purse will top $90 million – the largest in tennis history and a 20% increase on last year, which stood at $75 million.

The U.S. Open will begin later this month in Queens, New York, and the purse this year is $90 million — the most total prize money ever on offer in a professional tennis tournament. In fact, that purse represents a 20% increase from the $75 million offered at last year’s U.