Wuhan Open Prize Money Breakdown: How much did 2025 champion Coco Gauff and runner-up Jessica Pegula earn?

Coco Gauff produced a scintillating performance beat fellow American Jessica Pegula 6-4, 7-5 in the 2025 Wuhan Open final. The win gave Gauff her 11th singles and third WTA 1000 title.

Gauff turned in a commanding performance in her first singles final since her French Open triumph in June as she broke Pegula five times during their title-match clash that lasted one hour and 44 minutes. For her efforts, the World No. 3 will take home a paycheck of $596,000, which is a 13.5% increase from last year's title-winner prize money. Pegula, on the other hand, will receive $351,003

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and seventh-seeded Jasmine Paolini, meanwhile, will receive $180,100 each by virtue of their semifinal appearances in Cincinnati. The four quarterfinalists, namely Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina, Laura Siegemund, and Katerina Siniakova, will be paid a respectable $83,250 each.

The players eliminated in the third round, the second round, and the first round of the WTA 1000 tournament will receive $41,500, $23,450, and $16,860 each respectively.

It is pertinent to note that players who lost in the qualifying draw at the 2025 Wuhan Open will also receive incentives for their performance. While each of the players who lost in the final qualifying round will bag $10,050, the first-qualifying round losers will receive $5,260.

Katerina Siniakova and Storm Hunter win the women's doubles title at the 2025 Wuhan Open to take home colossal paycheque

Katerina Siniakova and Storm Hunter pose with Wuhan Open doubles title | Image Source: Getty

While Coco Gauff won the men's singles title, the doubles title went to the unseeded team of doubles World No. 1 Katerina Siniakova and Australia's Storm Hunter. The pair didn't drop a single set en route to their second WTA 1000 title together, beating the eighth-seeded duo of Aleksandra Krunic and Anna Danilina 6-3, 6-2 in the final.

While Siniakova and Hunter will take home $175,420 in total by virtue of their title victory, Krunic and Danilina will receive a total of $98,700. Meanwhile, the teams that were eliminated in the semifinals will each receive $53,000, while the four teams that lost in the quarterfinals will receive $27,420, respectively. Lastly, each of the teams that lost in the second round and the first round of the WTA 1000 tournament will receive $15,530 and $10,360.

For those unaware, the doubles title-winning prize money went up 13.44% from the 2024 edition, marking a change of nearly 14% in singles and doubles competitions at the Wuhan Open.

Edited by Rudra Biswas