French Open Roland Garros Prize Money Explained: How much can Sinner, Sabalenka, Djokovic and Rybakina earn

The second Grand Slam of the year is just around the corner. The French Open Roland Garros will pitch the best men and women tennis players in the world against each other with a lot at stake. One of the biggest titles in the sport is on the line, and so is one of the biggest prize pools in terms of money.

€61.723 million covers all the competitions being hosted in Paris. For Grand Slam standards, this is actually the lowest compared to the other three. This does not take away any of its prestige and importance on the tennis calendar. It is a tournament that can make players careers, relieving any financial pressure not just with what they earn in the competition, but the points they gain on their ranking that allows them to compete in other ATP and WTA events.

The top ranked players are thinking about one thing: the title. While there are a plethora of names in the women's tournament that have a fighting chance, Jannik Sinner is by far the overwhelming favourite to succeed at Roland Garros for the first time. It took a superb Novak Djokovic to halt him in his tracks in Melbourne, and he has not lost a match since the quarter-final of the Qatar Open. Five Masters 1000 titles have followed with three of which being on clay.

A huge boost comes in the form of his arch rival Carlos Alcaraz not featuring. The Spaniard was the only one realistically able to keep up with Sinner. Alexander Zverev and Djokovic seem like his closest rivals in terms of challenging for the title.

In the WTA tournament, things heat up. World number one Aryna Sabalenka has failed to make it past the last-16 stage of the prior WTA 1000 tournaments on clay. Like Sinner, she has never won the French Open title and lost in the final last year. That was to Coco Gauff who comes back to Paris off the back of another final in Rome. She took home the hefty sum of money on offer, and will be dearly hoping for another financially rewarding trip to the French capital.

Four-time champion Iga Swiatek knows a thing or two about winning a Grand Slam on clay. The Pole is slowly getting back to her best at the right time. Elena Rybakina will be hoping to clinch a second Grand Slam title on the spin, a third overall, while the likes of Mirra Andreeva, Jessica Pegula and Amanda Anisimova all fancy themselves of going on a title charge.

This being a Grand Slam, whatever round the players reach it will be very lucrative, especially if you go really deep in the tournament. A grand total of €61.723 million will be on offer. The winner of the Grand Slam will take home a whopping €2,800,000, not bad for a couple of week's work.

The runner-up may be bitterly disappointed to not get over the line, but can be satisfied with €1,400,000 in prize money, The two semi-finalists in each tournament collect a healthy €750,000, while a defeat at the quarter-final stage is rewarded with €470,000.

A loss at the round-of-16 is worth a grand total of €285,000. Third round losers earn €187,000, second round gives €130,000 while just making it into the tournament grants you €87,000.