Jannik Sinner is unstoppable at the moment! Starting off the season with a title triumph at the AO, followed by a title in the US, the Italian has now also clinched the ATP Finals title. Sinner thrashed America’s Taylor Fritz in front of the Italian crowd in this epic final on Sunday. With this emphatic victory, Sinner earned record prize money of $4,4881,500! Not just this, he has joined the likes of Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek in the $30 million club.

What a year this has been for this 23-year-old Italian superstar! With his 70th win of the season at the ATP Finals win, Jannik Sinner has become the first Italian to claim the prestigious title in the tournament’s 55-year-old history. Interestingly, Jannik Sinner didn’t even drop a set in the entire tournament. He’s the first male player to do so after Ivan Lendl in 1986. After the match, Sinner said, “It’s amazing, it’s my first title in Italy and it means so much to me.”

Prior to this tournament, Jannik Sinner had amassed $29,108,484 in career prize money. Now, with this incredible 6-4,6-4 win over Fritz, he has now earned a place in the Top 10 highest ATP career prize money earners of all time. Moreover, he has also become the third player born in the 2000s to surpass the $30 million in career prize money, joining the likes of Carlos Alcaraz ($36,876,485) and Iga Swiatek (33,141,991). 

Impressively, Sinner earned nearly half of his total career prize money in 2024 alone. This remarkable achievement places him second in the list of highest single-year earnings, trailing only Novak Djokovic’s record-breaking 2015. If we take a look at their performances this season, Sinner has won 8 titles this season, and that includes 2 Grand Slam titles. 

Interestingly, even after hitting this big jackpot in Turin, Jannik Sinner claimed, “I actually believe there is still gap of improvement. I mean, today I served very, very good at times, which was not the case throughout the whole tournament.” Sinner is set to compete in the 2024 Davis Cup Finals. After his record-breaking earnings at the Riyadh tournament and the ATP Finals, the question arises: Does money truly matter to the world’s top-ranked player?

Jannik Sinner’s reaction to winning the $6 million prize money in Riyadh

The Six Kings Slam in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was one of the highest stake events in the history of the racquet sport. Six of the best players in the men’s tour came together to fight for a staggering $6 million prize money. In that tournament, Jannik Sinner defeated his fierce rival, Carlos Alcaraz, and bagged that massive amount! Then, after this emphatic triumph in Riyadh, Sinner was asked about what was his real motivation to play in this mega event. Was it solely for this huge prize money?

Well, in reply to this question, he said, “I don’t play for money. It’s very simple. Of course, it’s a nice prize, but I went there because there was possibly the six best players in the world and you can measure yourself with them. It was also a nice event.” 

After this, his rival, Carlos Alcaraz was asked whether he had a similar thought on his motivation to take part in this event in Riyadh. In reply, the Spaniard said, “If I said that I went there just to have fun or to play without thinking about money, I would be lying. It’s obvious: every person works for that too. That’s how life works.” He said that he loves playing tennis and most of the time he doesn’t think about money. However, he claimed one needs to be a bit realistic as well. “In Saudi Arabia, there was the highest prize money in history, so it was a good motivation. At least for me,” he added.

Adding the two sums(Riyadh and Turin) together, Sinner won $10,881,500 in 8 matches played. To put it into perspective, this is roughly a quarter of Pete Sampras’ entire career prize money and a third of Andre Agassi’s. Quite an earning!