With every passing week, it seems, Iga Swiatek makes history and continues her ascension up the Hologic WTA Tour record books.
Her latest achievement? Surpassing Venus Williams for second all-time in career prize money.
On the heels of a rather robust Asian swing schedule — she won the title in Seoul, the 25th of her career, and then played Beijing and Wuhan — the six-time Grand Slam champion is now up to $42,945,490, slightly above Williams’ $42,867,364.
With three titles, including her first-ever Wimbledon trophy, and 61 wins (the most on tour this season), the 24-year-old has earned $9,417,532 this year alone. That’s second to only World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who has made $12,313,519 in the top spot.
Sabalenka is No. 4 on the all-time list ($42,480,621), and trails Swiatek by just $464,869.
The all-time leader in prize money is 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams, who racked up an astonishing $94,816,730 during her illustrious 27-year career (made all the more incredible by the fact that prize money was substantially less for much of her career).
Rounding out the Top 10 — after Serena, Venus, Swiatek and Sabalenka — is Simona Halep (just over $40 million), Victoria Azarenka ($38.8 million), recently-inducted International Tennis Hall of Famer Maria Sharapova ($38.7 million), recently-retired Petra Kvitova ($37.6 million), Caroline Wozniacki ($36.4 million) and Angelique Kerber ($32.5 million).
Other active players in the all-time Top 20 include Coco Gauff (11th, with $29 million), Elina Svitolina (13th, with $26.6 million), Karolina Pliskova (14th, with $26.1 million) and Naomi Osaka (18th, with $24.5 million).
Swiatek and Sabalenka will have an opportunity to win another major title — and increase their prize money total — at next month’s WTA Finals in Riyadh, where $15.5 million will be on the line.
Gauff has also qualified for the year-end event, and the trio will be joined by Australian Open champion Madison Keys, US Open finalist Amanda Anisimova and Jessica Pegula. The final two spots in the eight-player tournament are still up for grabs in the final weeks of the season.