Most notably: The men's champion receives a check for $353,445; the women's champion earns $120,150. All four Grand Slam tournaments offer equal prize money across the board, something the U.S. Open started doing 50 years ago and others as recently as 2007. "When we took over the tournament, one of my top goals was to secure a women's event at an equal level as our men's," Ein said. There are other discrepancies between the men's and women's brackets in Washington. The rankings points available are nearly the same, but the men's champion gets 500, the women's 470.

Source: Daily Sun July 31, 2023 21:06 UTC