The good performances of Emil Ruusuvuoren and Harri Heliövaara on this year’s tennis ATP tour have also been reflected in the men’s accounts. Heliövaara has almost doubled his career goals during the current season.
Colombians in the semifinals Juan Sebastian Cabalia and Robert Farahia against the duo had the chance to take the first semi-final place of their career at the grand slam level, but the match ended with Heliövaara and Glasspool losing 6–7, 2–6.
The duo’s success has also started to show in their wallets. Winning the Masters tournament in Hamburg in the summer brought the Finn about 55,000 euros, and the quarter-final spot at the French Open earned him about 40,000 euros.
About 49,000 euros are paid per player for a place in the quarterfinals of the US Open. A place in the semifinals would have brought more than 86,000 euros.
The entire prize amount for the year rose to almost 350,000 euros with the US Open. That’s a lot in the career of the 33-year-old Heliövaara, who was on hiatus for about three years between 2014 and 2016. Heliövaara, who studied for a master’s degree in production economics during his break, has earned a total of around 636,000 euros in his career.
The former world number one in doubles Henri Kontinen income Heliövaara has a long way to go. Kontinen, who is on a break in his career, outshined the Australian of John Peers especially in 2016 and 2017.
In 2017, the duo won, among other things, the Australian Open, the Shanghai Masters tournament and the season-ending London ATP final tournament. Kontinen was rewarded for his performances with more than 1.1 million euros, and the amount is the largest for an individual Finnish player in one year.
In total, Kontinen’s prize pool is more than 3.5 million euros.
Nieminen tops the Finnish list
The compensation paid for doubles play is a fraction of what is paid to singles players. In the US Open, both the men’s and women’s winners receive 2.6 million euros, while the men’s doubles winners share a pot of around 690,000 euros between them.
For the world number 49 Emil Ruusuvuori year has brought more than 800,000 euros in prize money, and the amount has brought the total of the 23-year-old player’s tenests to nearly two million euros.
The number one name of Finnish players on the all-time list has earned more than 7.7 million euros Jarkko Nieminen, who at his best reached number 13 in the world rankings. In 2006, Nieminen won his first ATP tournament and advanced to the top eight at Wimbledon, among others. The year brought in about 820,000 euros.
When you start scrolling up the list from Niemis, who is ranked 122, you end up with wild numbers. At the top of the all-time list is the 21-time grand slam winner from Serbia Novak Djokovicwho has earned just under 160 million euros in prize money by the end of August 2022.
The women’s all-time number one is a career-ending American Serena Williams with revenues of over 94 million euros. The best account of Finnish women has been made by those who reached number 50 on the world list Emma Lainewhich managed to add more than half a million euros to its coffers.