ATP Career Prize Money Leaders

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Ten active players make the list of the top 40 ATP Career Prize Money Leaders as of December 28, 2009. Roger Federer is the #1 career prize money leader with $53.4 million dollars - $8.8 million of which was earned during the 2009 season. Rafael Nadal, the second highest earner during the 2009 season is #4 in the all time list with $27.2 million dollars in earnings. Novak Djokovic, the third highest earner for the season is ranked #13 overall. Other active players in the top 40 include Lleyton Hewitt (#11), Andy Roddick (#12), Nikolay Davydenko (#19), Juan Carlos Ferrero (#41), Andy Murray (#34), Tommy Haas (#35), and David Nalbandian (#36). See the full list below:

Rank	Player	Career	2009 Earnings
1	Roger Federer	$53,362,068	$8,768,110
2	Pete Sampras	$43,280,489	$0
3	Andre Agassi	$31,152,975	$0
4	Rafael Nadal	$27,224,163	$6,466,515
5	Boris Becker	$25,080,956	$0
6	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	$23,883,797	$0
7	Ivan Lendl	$21,262,417	$0
8	Stefan Edberg	$20,630,941	$0
9	Goran Ivanisevic	$19,876,579	$0
10	Michael Chang	$19,145,632	$0
11	Lleyton Hewitt	$18,312,036	$682,947
12	Andy Roddick	$17,109,084	$2,478,719
13	Novak Djokovic	$15,984,098	$5,476,471
14	Gustavo Kuerten	$14,807,000	$0
15	Jonas Bjorkman	$14,600,323	$0
16	Marat Safin	$14,373,291	$450,800
17	Jim Courier	$14,034,132	$0
18	Carlos Moya	$13,382,822	$39,133
19	Nikolay Davydenko	$13,239,499	$3,659,160
20	Michael Stich	$12,595,128	$2,645
21	Juan Carlos Ferrero	$12,588,898	$689,963
22	John McEnroe	$12,552,132	$0
23	Thomas Muster	$12,225,910	$0
24	Tim Henman	$11,635,542	$0
25	Sergi Bruguera	$11,632,199	$0
26	Patrick Rafter	$11,127,058	$0
27	Thomas Enqvist	$10,461,641	$0
28	Petr Korda	$10,448,900	$0
29	Alex Corretja	$10,411,354	$0
30	Todd Woodbridge	$10,095,245	$0
31	Richard Krajicek	$10,077,425	$0
32	Fabrice Santoro	$10,003,153	$384,042
33	Wayne Ferreira	$9,969,617	$0
34	Andy Murray	$9,920,493	$4,421,057
35	Tommy Haas	$9,910,081	$946,095
36	David Nalbandian	$9,794,060	$286,284
37	Marcelo Rios	$9,713,771	$0
38	Greg Rusedski	$8,944,841	$0
39	Jimmy Connors	$8,641,040	$0
40	Mark Woodforde	$8,571,605	$0

Some observations:

- 32 players have won more than $10 million dollars in their careers
- Andy Murray, currently at #34 earned almost half of his career earnings in 2009. If he makes at least the same amount in 2010, he could be ranked within the top 20 by year-end.
- Who will enter the top 10 first: Andy Roddick or Novak Djokovic?
- Rafael Nadal may likely overtake Andre Agassi for the #3 spot by end of 2010, but it would take him 3 more $6M/year seasons to overtake Pete Sampras for #2
- Goran Ivanisevic and Michael Chang at #9 and #10 respectively are the highest players in the list never to have been ranked #1
- Jonas Bjorkman (#14) and Nikolay Davydenko (#19) are the only 2 players in the top 20 who have not won a Grand Slam singles title
- Two active players are most likely to join the top 40 list at the end of 2010. They are Fernando Gonzales (#42 - $8.4M) and Juan Martin del Potro (#62 - $6.7M). Gonzales earned $1.5 million for 2009 and del Potro earned $4.8 million for 2009.