ATP Prize Money Leaders Update | Daniil Medvedev into top five after Dubai victory as Carlos Alcaraz continues to lead ahead of Indian Wells

Monday, 02 March 2026 at 23:30

Indian Wells kicks off on Wednesday 4 March. Going into the tournament, Carlos Alcaraz leads in terms of the Prize Money Leaders with the Spaniard taking a lengthy lead but perhaps it is a surprise who is second with Jannik Sinner only marginally in the top 10 so far this year.

Alcaraz leads the way with $3.3m going into Indian Wells boosted by triumphs in Australia as well as winning recently in Qatar over Arthur Fils. He will return again this week aiming to take his form to new heights at Tennis Paradise.

But it is Alex de Minaur who has been one of the most in-form players on tour for quite some time playing almost the Jessica Pegula in the WTA role of consistency who follows on. He sits on $1.46m ahead of Novak Djokovic who will have the chance to claim second.

He is set to play in California perhaps surprisingly given that he has often snubbed the event in recent years and not played again until the clay court swing. While we have Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev who lead the top five off ahead of Ben Shelton and Felix Auger-Aliassime, two players who also have been superb this year.

Medvedev though is this week's big story and big mover. The Russian though may not even make it to Indian Wells given all the travel issues that continue to be ongoing in the Middle East. He is having to likely take a car to Oman then a flight to Turkey to Armenia on a private jet with Andrey Rublev.

Tiafoe, Cobolli, Griekspoor rise

Then with one of his best friends in a sort of side quest that both will likely look back on post retirement with some sense of amazement, they will then fly to America in time for their first round games this weekend.

He is up to fifth in the Prize Money Leaders going from $538k last week to $1.1m this week. He is up 13 spots and adds $572,000 to his total. This is the biggest overall change in both rank and money.

After a good week in the States, Frances Tiafoe also rises. He goes up 17 spots from 39th to 22nd. While Flavio Cobolli after winning Acapulco moves up to 12th from 34th spot. Tallon Griekspoor also gets a reward as he shifts up to 14th up 19 spots from 33rd.

Frances Tiafoe has risen this week.

He will be out though for the rest of the month in what is a tough pill to swallow after a great week in Dubai where he reached the final before losing to Medvedev by walkover as he just couldn't continue.

Down spots include Alexander Bublik who is down to 15th after the latest update from 12th. Sebastian Baez shifts down to 23rd from 19th. While Hubert Hurkacz goes down to 10th down two spots.

The biggest winners this week overall are Medvedev, Cobolli as well as Jakub Mensik up 51k while Felix Auger-Aliassime has added 138k.

ATP Prize Money Leaders as of 2-3-26

(as per livetennis.eu)

Rank	Player	Age	Ctry	$
1	Carlos Alcaraz	22	ESP	3.3M
2	Alex de Minaur	27	AUS	1.46M
3	Novak Djokovic	38	SRB	1.43M
4	Alexander Zverev	28	GER	1.18M
5	Daniil Medvedev	30	RUS	1.11M
6	Ben Shelton	23	USA	1.05M
7	Félix Auger-Aliassime	25	CAN	990k
8	Taylor Fritz	28	USA	943k
9	Jannik Sinner	24	ITA	912k
10	Hubert Hurkacz	29	POL	873k
11	Jakub Menšík	20	CZE	845k
12	Flavio Cobolli	23	ITA	784k
13	Tomás Martín Etcheverry	26	ARG	735k
14	Tallon Griekspoor	29	NED	647k
15	Alexander Bublik	28	KAZ	631k
16	Andrey Rublev	28	RUS	584k
17	Learner Tien	20	USA	572k
18	Lorenzo Musetti	23	ITA	563k
19	Zizou Bergs	26	BEL	557k
20	Stefanos Tsitsipas	27	GRE	556k
21	Casper Ruud	27	NOR	543k
22	Frances Tiafoe	28	USA	542k
23	Sebastián Báez	25	ARG	541k
24	Luciano Darderi	24	ITA	527k
25	Francisco Cerúndolo	27	ARG	508k
26	Tommy Paul	28	USA	468k
27	Stan Wawrinka	40	SUI	467k
28	Alejandro Tabilo	28	CHI	425k
29	Ugo Humbert	27	FRA	409k
30	Karen Khachanov	29	RUS	399k
31	Marin Čilić	37	CRO	390k
32	Arthur Rinderknech	30	FRA	380k
33	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	26	ESP	376k
34	Tomáš Macháč	25	CZE	367k
35	Brandon Nakashima	24	USA	352k
36	Miomir Kecmanović	26	SRB	345k
37	Denis Shapovalov	26	CAN	335k
38	Fábián Marozsán	26	HUN	330k
39	Arthur Fils	21	FRA	329k
40	Sebastian Korda	25	USA	329k
41	Botic van de Zandschulp	30	NED	326k
42	Vít Kopřiva	28	CZE	323k
43	Valentin Vacherot	27	MON	322k
44	Jaume Munar	28	ESP	311k
45	Cameron Norrie	30	GBR	305k
46	Zhizhen Zhang	29	CHN	286k
47	Eliot Spizzirri	24	USA	283k
48	Jiří Lehečka	24	CZE	281k
49	Ethan Quinn	21	USA	279k
50	Nuno Borges	29	POR	279k
51	Quentin Halys	29	FRA	276k
52	Yannick Hanfmann	34	GER	254k
53	Aleksandar Kovačević	27	USA	248k
54	Jenson Brooksby	25	USA	247k
55	Thiago Agustín Tirante	24	ARG	246k
56	Corentin Moutet	26	FRA	245k
57	Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard	22	FRA	244k
58	Adrian Mannarino	37	FRA	242k
59	Rafael Jódar	19	ESP	240k
60	Márton Fucsovics	34	HUN	234k
61	Yibing Wu	26	CHN	233k
62	Alexei Popyrin	26	AUS	230k
63	Damir Džumhur	33	BIH	227k
64	Kamil Majchrzak	30	POL	220k
65	Juncheng Shang	21	CHN	219k
66	Jaime Faria	22	POR	217k
67	Mattia Bellucci	24	ITA	215k
68	Térence Atmane	24	FRA	213k
69	Valentin Royer	24	FRA	212k
70	Hamad Medjedović	22	SRB	212k
71	Francisco Comesaña	25	ARG	212k
72	Rinky Hijikata	25	AUS	210k
73	Emilio Nava	24	USA	209k
74	Christopher O'Connell	31	AUS	208k
75	Marcos Giron	32	USA	207k
76	James Duckworth	34	AUS	206k
77	Alex Michelsen	21	USA	205k
78	Juan Manuel Cerúndolo	24	ARG	202k
79	Camilo Ugo Carabelli	26	ARG	201k
80	Pablo Carreño Busta	34	ESP	199k
81	Alexander Shevchenko	25	KAZ	196k
82	Pedro Martínez	28	ESP	192k
83	Arthur Géa	21	FRA	190k
84	Dane Sweeny	25	AUS	181k
85	Michael Zheng	22	USA	177k
86	Reilly Opelka	28	USA	175k
87	Patrick Kypson	26	USA	172k
88	Zachary Svajda	23	USA	170k
89	Alexandre Müller	29	FRA	170k
90	Francesco Maestrelli	23	ITA	167k
91	Jan Lennard Struff	35	GER	167k
92	Adam Walton	26	AUS	166k
93	Luca Nardi	22	ITA	166k
94	Shintaro Mochizuki	22	JPN	166k
95	Lorenzo Sonego	30	ITA	162k
96	Jesper de Jong	25	NED	161k
97	Nishesh Basavareddy	20	USA	161k
98	Daniel Altmaier	27	GER	161k
99	Alexander Blockx	20	BEL	160k
100	Raphaël Collignon	24	BEL	160k

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