ATP Men's Tennis Career Prize Money Rankings - December 2010

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Roger Federer set another tennis record by becoming the first tennis player to earn more than $60 million in career prize money. In the latest ATP Career Prize Money Rankings released by the atpworldtour.com website, the Swiss #2, leads 7 active players in the top 20 list of career prize money earners in men's tennis. Federer also holds the record with the most number of Grand Slam titles by a male tennis player, having won his 16 Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January.

American legend and 14-time major winner Pete Sampras is at #2 in the career prize money rankings with $43.28 million. His slot is being threatened by world #1 Rafael Nadal who has so far won $35.80 million. Nadal won more than $8 million in prize money this year, to go from #4 last year to #3. He now trails Sampras by less than $8 million and if he replicates his year-to-date earnings this year, he can surpass Sampras to claim the number two spot next year.

Rounding out the top 5 career prize money earners are retired players Andrei Agassi of the USA and Boris Becker of Germany. Novak Djokovic of Serbia, the current #3-ranked player is the only other active player in the top 10. He occupies the tenth spot with $19.76 million. One other active players is likely to join the top 10 by end of next year. Andy Roddick of the USA is at #12 with $19.03 million and trails retired Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia by less than $0.80 million. Ivanisevic currently occupies the 9th spot in the career prize money rankings.

Other active players in the top 20 are Lleyton Hewitt of Australia with $18.84 million (#13), Nikolay Davydenko of Russia with $14.19 million (#17), and Andy Murray of the United Kingdom with $13.47 million (#19). Recently retired Carlos Moya of Spain occupies the 20th spot with $13.44 million.

The top career prize money earner without a singles Grand Slam championship is doubles specialist Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden. He occupies the 15th spot with $14.60 million. The top career prize money earner who never reached the #1 ranking is Goran Ivanisevic.

Below is the ATP Career Prize Money Rankings as of December 2010.

1 Federer,  Roger                     $60,060,358

2 Sampras,  Pete                      $43,280,489

3 Nadal,  Rafael                      $35,796,162

4 Agassi,  Andre                      $31,152,975

5 Becker,  Boris                      $25,080,956

6 Kafelnikov,  Yevgeny                $23,883,797

7 Lendl,  Ivan                        $21,262,417

8 Edberg,  Stefan                     $20,630,941

9 Ivanisevic,  Goran                  $19,876,579

10 Djokovic,  Novak                   $19,762,956

11 Chang,  Michael                    $19,145,632

12 Roddick,  Andy                     $19,026,697

13 Hewitt,  Lleyton                   $18,843,702

14 Kuerten,  Gustavo                  $14,807,000

15 Bjorkman,  Jonas                   $14,600,323

16 Safin,  Marat                      $14,373,291

17 Davydenko,  Nikolay                $14,187,891

18 Courier,  Jim                      $14,034,132

19 Murray,  Andy                      $13,467,298

20 Moya,  Carlos                      $13,443,970

21 Ferrero,  Juan  Carlos             $13,320,292

22 Stich,  Michael                    $12,595,128

23 McEnroe,  John                     $12,552,132

24 Muster,  Thomas                    $12,240,574

25 Henman,  Tim                       $11,635,542

26 Bruguera,  Sergi                   $11,632,199

27 Rafter,  Patrick                   $11,127,058

28 Enqvist,  Thomas                   $10,461,641

29 Korda,  Petr                       $10,448,900

30 Corretja,  Alex                    $10,411,354

31 Nalbandian,  David                 $10,391,107

32 Woodbridge,  Todd                  $10,095,245

33 Krajicek,  Richard                 $10,077,425

34 Santoro,  Fabrice                  $10,021,132

35 Haas,  Tommy                       $9,979,980

36 Ferreira,  Wayne                   $9,969,617

37 Rios,  Marcelo                     $9,713,771

38 Ljubicic,  Ivan                    $9,289,549

39 Ferrer,  David                     $9,250,842

40 Nestor,  Daniel                    $9,140,752

41 Rusedski,  Greg                    $8,944,841

42 Mirnyi,  Max                       $8,894,949

43 Robredo,  Tommy                    $8,732,363

44 Gonzalez,  Fernando                $8,731,544

45 Soderling,  Robin                  $8,699,288

46 Connors,  Jimmy                    $8,641,040

47 Woodforde,  Mark                   $8,571,605

48 Martin,  Todd                      $8,254,455

49 Grosjean,  Sebastien               $8,131,803

50 Wilander,  Mats                    $7,976,256

51 Youzhny,  Mikhail                  $7,889,433

52 Haarhuis,  Paul                    $7,749,011

53 Costa,  Albert                     $7,685,228

54 Novak,  Jiri                       $7,618,613

55 Bryan,  Bob                        $7,504,069

56 Kiefer,  Nicolas                   $7,480,465

57 Berdych,  Tomas                    $7,317,211

58 Bryan,  Mike                       $7,275,146

59 Schuettler,  Rainer                $7,193,528

60 Johansson,  Thomas                 $7,168,029

61 Verdasco,  Fernando                $7,090,545

62 Hrbaty,  Dominik                   $7,065,241

63 Blake,  James                      $7,044,262

64 Philippoussis,  Mark               $6,985,202

65 Pioline,  Cedric                   $6,921,029

66 Knowles,  Mark                     $6,873,103

67 Rosset,  Marc                      $6,812,693

68 Clement,  Arnaud                   $6,790,290

69 Del Potro,  Juan Martin            $6,775,148

70 Medvedev,  Andrei                  $6,721,560

71 Stepanek,  Radek                   $6,677,713

72 Lapentti,  Nicolas                 $6,313,898

73 Gaudio,  Gaston                    $6,064,696

74 Paes,  Leander                     $5,986,439

75 Coria,  Guillermo                  $5,915,620

76 Hlasek,  Jakob                     $5,895,293

77 Larsson,  Magnus                   $5,839,451

78 Damm,  Martin                      $5,721,417

79 Forget,  Guy                       $5,669,934

80 Melzer,  Jurgen                    $5,638,437

81 Llodra,  Michael                   $5,576,618

82 Gilbert,  Brad                     $5,509,060

83 Chela,  Juan Ignacio               $5,432,391

84 Bhupathi,  Mahesh                  $5,388,860

85 Jarryd,  Anders                    $5,378,067

86 Lopez,  Feliciano                  $5,366,816

87 Sanchez,  Emilio                   $5,339,395

88 Mantilla,  Felix                   $5,332,214

89 Canas,  Guillermo                  $5,285,575

90 Wheaton,  David                    $5,238,401

91 Pavel,  Andrei                     $5,225,028

92 Zimonjic,  Nenad                   $5,199,653

93 Schalken,  Sjeng                   $5,192,798

94 Black,  Byron                      $5,159,775

95 Tsonga,  Jo-Wilfried               $5,126,316

96 Kucera,  Karol                     $5,061,125

97 Spadea,  Vincent                   $5,012,880

98 Eltingh,  Jacco                    $4,926,864

99 Vilas,  Guillermo                  $4,923,882

100 Nieminen,  Jarkko                 $4,897,610

The ATP Career Prize Money Rankings is published by the atpworldtour.com website.