D-4 before the start of Greenweez Paris Major. In this final stretch, events follow one another and we eagerly await the list of wildcards. However, we will not talk about that in the article… but rather about money. Or more precisely, about prize money.

As in tennis, there are four majors in the year: Qatar Major, Italy Major, Paris Major et Mexico Major. As with tennis, one of these events takes place in Paris. Therefore, we will look at the difference between the prize money in tennis and that in padel.

100x more interesting in tennis

One thing is clear at first glance: the overall prize money awarded to the tournament. In padel, the Majors have an endowment of 525.000€, which is already very interesting for players who, at the beginning of their career, earned very little.

However, in tennis, an ancestral and world-famous sport, the prize money on a tournament of Grand Chelem is mind-boggling: 53.500.000€, more than 100 times more than for a padel Major.

Big wins in the first round at Roland Garros

Bigger prize money necessarily means that the players will earn more throughout the competition. Knowing, in addition, that at Roland Garros, the matches start in the 64th final:

Roland GarrosGreenweez Paris Major
Round of 6473.000€/ / /
Round of 32110.000€1.477€
Round of 16158.000€2.953€
Round of 8250.000€5.250€
Quarter finals415.000€8.531€
Semifinals650.000€13.125€
finalists1.200.000€23.625€
winners2.400.000€47.250€

One fact obviously stands out: a player who reaches the round of 64 at Roland Garros will receive 1.5 times more than the winners of the Greenweez Paris Major.

If some people think that padel is a danger for tennis, for the time being, it is necessarily more profitable to be a tennis rather than a padel player. However, more players are still trying to break into tennis than padel, making their ambitions very complicated to achieve.

However, prize money or not, this new edition of the Paris Major promises great things, with the elite of French padel:

The list of pairs present at the Greenweez Paris Majors 2024 are…
Gwenaelle Souyri

It was her brother who one day told her to accompany him to a padel court, since then, Gwenaëlle has never left the court. Except when it comes to going to watch the retransmission of Padel Magazine, World Padel Tour… or Premier Padel…or the French Championships. In short, she is a fan of this sport.

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