Swiatek only WTA player to earn $5m+ in 2022 compared to six players pre-pandemic as year-end prize money in WTA and ATP compared

Year-end prize money has been compared with a graph showing the disparity between the current state of the ATP compared to WTA with Iga Swiatek the only player on the latter to earn over $5m in 2022 compared to six players during the year pre-pandemic.

This not only shows the disparity but also the dominance of Swiatek who has been the World Number One by far since Ashleigh Barty retired earlier this year but this compared to the ATP who have five players reaching that point.

This is a downturn too but only by one player with this being the only metric to see a downturn compared to 2019 with the WTA seeing it's big three ($1m-$5m) seeing decreases while there are increases on the smaller scale.

But still not as much as ATP with the $100k bracket seeing 305 players reaching that compared to 276 three years ago and 256 compared to 224 for the WTA meaning the latter has more of an increase but is still not on par.