Rouen prize money breakdown: How much did 2024 champion Sloane Stephens and runner-up Magda Linette earn? | Open Capfinances
Sloane Stephens ended a scintillating week of tennis in Rouen, France with a hard-fought 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 victory over WTA No. 48 Magda Linette of Poland to secure her first title of the 2024 season.
The 2017 US Open champion dropped just two sets all week and beat the likes of World No. 23 Caroline Garcia, former World No. 1 Karolina Pliskova, and Yuan Yue of China en route to her eighth WTA tour title, and her first since 2022 when she lifted the crown at the Abierto Zapopan Open in Mexico.
Along with securing 250 WTA points, Stephens also took home a healthy paycheck of $35,248 out of the total $267,082 in prize money.
Linette, contesting in her first WTA final since the Guangzhou Open in China last year, took home $20,827 and 163 points.
Second seed Caroline Garcia and third seed Anhelina Kalinina who lost in the semi-finals, walked away with $11,615 each in prize money and 98 points in the WTA rankings.
Fourth seed Yuan Yue, fifth seed Mirra Andreeva, Elena-Gabriela Ruse, and Arantxa Rus, were ousted in the quarter-finals and walked away with $6,613 in prize money and 54 ranking points.
Top seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Karolina Pliskova, seventh seed Clara Burel, and others who lost in the second round, were rewarded with $4,039 and 30 ranking points.
The women who were eliminated in the first round of the WTA 250 event in Roune, meanwhile, each pocketed $2,889 in prize money and 1 ranking point each.
Irina Khromacheva and Timea Babos claim doubles crown in Rouen
Timea Babos and partner Irina Khromacheva emerged victorious in the doubles event in Rouen with a resounding 6-3, 6-4 victory over the British pairing of Naiktha Bains and Maia Lumsden on Sunday, April 21.
The Hungarian-Russian pairing walked away with $12,823 in prize money and 250 WTA points as a part of their title run.
Runners-up Bains and Lumsden pocketed $7,211, while the semifinalists pairings of Samantha Murray Sharan & Katarzyna Piter, and Nao Hibino & Oksana Kalashnikova walked away with $4,140.
The quarterfinalists pocketed $2,473, while those who reached the second round received $1,900. First-round entrants weren't awarded points or any prize money.
Babos, a four-time Grand Slam doubles champion, picked up her first doubles title in four years. She last won an event in doubles at the 2020 French Open which she won with partner Kristina Mladenovic.