{"id":510332,"date":"2025-10-18T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510332\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:17:11","slug":"six-kings-slam-prize-money-how-much-is-on-the-line-as-alcaraz-and-sinner-compete-for-biggest-payday-in-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510332\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Kings Slam prize money: How much is on the line as Alcaraz and Sinner compete for biggest payday in tennis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 jEZjIj\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 jEZjIj\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 jEZjIj\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sc-1uza6dc-1 gunhQQ\">Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/carlos-alcaraz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jannik-sinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> meet again in the final of the Six Kings Slam exhibition in Saudi Arabia. After battles in the finals of Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open this season, the two best players in the world will compete for the $6m overall prize in the biggest single payday of the season. <\/p>\n<p>As it is an exhibition, the Six Kings Slam does not offer rankings points, or count towards official head-to-head records. It is the highest profile men\u2019s tennis event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/six-king-slam-money-netflix-djokovic-alcaraz-sinner-b2845249.html\" title=\"Six Kings Slam reveals what the top tennis players want in 2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to take place in Saudi Arabia<\/a>, which has often been accused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/comedy\/news\/riyadh-comedy-festival-jokes-comedians-fee-how-much-b2839375.html\" title=\"Comedians at controversial Riyadh festival \u2018completely avoiding\u2019 jokes about Saudi government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of using sport and entertainment <\/a>to whitewash its human rights record. <\/p>\n<p>So far at the second edition of the Six Kings Slam, Sinner thrashed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/novak-djokovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the semi-finals, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/djokovic-sinner-six-kings-slam-result-b2846928.html\" title=\"\u2018He kicked my ass\u2019: Novak Djokovic sums up brutal reality after defeat to Jannik Sinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 38-year-old admitting he had his ass kicked.<\/a> Alcaraz was also in imposing form as he rolled through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/taylor-fritz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Fritz<\/a> 6-4 6-2 in the other semi-final, setting up a rematch of last year\u2019s Six Kings Slam final that was won by Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz and Sinner have duelled on the biggest stages this season, with the Spaniard winning his<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-us-open-final-result-b2821925.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> last meeting with Sinner at the US Open final<\/a> last month. In fact, Sinner\u2019s victory over Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final is his only official win against Alcaraz in their last eight meetings. The Six Kings Slam final is also streamed live on Netflix. <\/p>\n<p>Six Kings Slam prize money <\/p>\n<p>The six-player event has taken place over three days, live on Netflix, with every player earning a $1.5m appearance fee and a massive $4.5m going to the overall winner. <\/p>\n<p>With a total prize of $6m, the Six Kings Slam prize money is $1m more than what Alcaraz won for defeating Sinner in last month\u2019s US Open final, itself the biggest prize fund of the four grand slam events this season. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Six Kings Slam champion: $6m (\u00a34.5m)<\/li>\n<li>2025 US Open champion: $5m (\u00a33.74m)<\/li>\n<li>2025 Wimbledon champion: $4m (\u00a33m)<\/li>\n<li>2025 French Open champion: $2.9m (\u00a32.17m)<\/li>\n<li>2025 Australian Open champion: $2.3m (\u00a31.75m)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While Alcaraz and Sinner progressed to Saturday\u2019s final, and Novak Djokovic and Taylor Fritz compete in the third-place match, both Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev went home after just one match following their defeats in the quarter-finals. <\/p>\n<p>With his 59-minute defeat to Fritz earning him $1.5m, Zverev received $250,000 in Riyadh than he did for finishing runner-up at the Australian Open in January, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/six-kings-slam-prize-money-zverev-fritz-b2846175.html\" title=\"Alexander Zverev makes mockery of $1.5m Six Kings Slam fee with 59-minute defeat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was paid around $25,000 per minute<\/a> for his one match at the Six Kings Slam.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Six Kings Slam, Alcaraz led the ATP\u2019s money standings in 2025 after winning eight titles from ten finals, including his grand slam victories at the French Open and US Open. <\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard has won just over $16m for the year on tour, while Sinner has won over $12m following his wins at the Australian Open and Wimbledon. Both men are well clear of the third-place Djokovic, who has won just over $5m in prize money in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-510332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115397253169024361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}