Beating the heavy weights and top favourites, young talents Jack Draper and Mirra Andreeva emerged as champions at the Indian Wells Open 2025 in the men’s and women’s events respectively.
While Draper won the ATP 1000 event, Andreeva triumphed in the WTA 1000 competition. While both the events offered the same ranking points, the prize money of both the events were not equal. The men’s champion took home more cash than their female rivals.
Indian Wells Open 2025: Difference in prize money
For the first time since 2009, the Indian Wells Open did not have equally split prize money between the ATP and WTA Tours in 2025, with a 2.13% difference between the two.
The tournament carried a total prize pool of $19,387,080, with the ATP Tour receiving $9,693,540 and the WTA Tour receiving $9,489,532. This represented a rise of 6.63% from 2024.
However, the WTA Tour confirmed that they opted to give their champion less money than the ATP Tour Masters 1000 winner at the same venue.
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Therefore, while men’s champion Draper took home $1,201,125 for his breakthrough maiden ATP Masters 1000 title, women’s champion Mirra Andreeva received $1,127,500.
The difference in cash distribution occurred across the draw, with the losing finalists in the men’s tournament getting $638,750 and the women’s runner-up earning $599,625.
Losing semi-finals in the men’s event received $354,850 in prize money, which is a little more than the $333,125 rewarded to the female last four players.
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Interestingly, the WTA Tour gave more money to players who made early exits in the competition, with players knocked out in the first round getting $30,801 and second round losers earning $43,050. Those figures are more than what the male players fetched after getting knocked out early at Indian Wells.
The predominant reason why many tournaments do not pay equal prize money to men’s and women’s events is that the WTA Tour generates a lot less revenue than the ATP Tour in broadcast revenue.
