Elena Rybakina loved a improbable week on the WTA Finals in early November, going undefeated on the occasion to win her third title of 2025 and a $5.2 million cheque. Just lately, Jimmy Connors weighed in on the Kazakh’s earnings, making his emotions clear concerning the large prize cash.
Rybakina kicked off her marketing campaign in Riyadh with a win over Amanda Anisimova, earlier than happening to get rid of Iga Swiatek and Ekaterina Alexandrova. She then defeated Jessica Pegula within the semifinals, earlier than ousting World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka within the summit conflict. On account of her unbeaten streak on the occasion, the 26-year-old received a complete quantity of $5.2 million, which included an incentive of $2.5 million for going undefeated via the event.
Just lately, throughout his ‘Benefit Connors’ podcast, Jimmy Connors shared his trustworthy ideas concerning the additional incentive on the WTA Finals, saying,
“You understand, including a bonus like that, I sort of like that. It offers the gamers one thing you realize, not that successful the occasion and beating the No.1, No.2, No.3 on the planet is not sufficient, however little incentives, two and a half million is just not a bit of incentive, however you realize that is fairly wonderful.”
He went on to replicate about Elena Rybakina’s large earnings, including,
“That is value going out and saying ‘hey, I gotta keep in form all through the entire yr now’, you realize, to go to (Tour Finals) and be undefeated and play that sort of tennis in November. After all the things they have been via, the quantity of tournaments, the quantity of journey, the coaching and all the things, you possibly can see it is value it.”
Throughout his enjoying days, Connors received a complete of 109 tournaments and US $8,641,040 in prize cash.
Elena Rybakina shares her plans for spending her large cheque from the WTA Finals
For Elena Rybakina, the WTA Finals marked her greatest efficiency of the yr. Reflecting on her earnings after the event, the Kazakh shared that whereas she hadn’t thought concerning the quantity lots, she was trying ahead to celebrating along with her crew and household, saying in a press convention,
“Effectively it is undoubtedly an enormous quantity and actually I did not take into consideration any of that a lot however after all it is nice and we undoubtedly must have a good time very well with the crew, household and everybody.”
Total, Elena Rybakina loved a powerful 2025 season. Aside from the WTA Finals, she additionally received the Ningbo Open and the Internationaux de Strasbourg.
Edited by Riddhi Acharya
