🎾 How $1.24m was split amongst British Players at the US Open

19 year old Coco Gauff won $3m last week after winning her first US Open. There were 15 British players amongst the field. This week The Long Play breaks down how they fared, and how much money they each made.

Elsewhere, Farhad Moshiri’s torrid time as the owner of Everton Football Club comes to an end.

You might not recognise that chap on the left. He is Joe Salisbury, the 6th Best Men’s Doubles player in the world.

Last week Joe earned himself $354,000 by winning the Mens Doubles at the US Open in New York, making more money than any other British player at Flushing Meadows.

The US Open is usually a happy hunting ground for British Tennis talent and is also one of the most lucrative tournaments for all tennis players.

Andy Murray won here in 2012, famously beating Novak Djokovic in a 5-set classic. That year Murray won $1.9m for his winners trophy, at the time the biggest purse of all time.

Nine years later the prize money has skyrocketed. Emma Raducanu won the US Open in 2021 pocketing $2.5m for her efforts, a 32% increase from Andy Murray nine years prior.

This year, the total prize money was a massive $65m for the tournament and a whopping $3m for the Singles Winners.

Unfortunately the UK cohort didn’t get close to the jackpot with no-one getting beyond Round 4 in the Singles matches.

Jack Draper got the furthest in the Mens Singles falling to Andrey Rublev in Round 4. For the women, British #1 Katie Boulter got to the Third Round before falling to Peyton Stearns.

Joe Salisbury however, won the Mens Doubles with his partner Rajeev Ram. This is the third Mens Doubles titles he has won in a row and the second time he has topped the British US Open Money list splitting the $700,000 cheque.

He also entered the Mixed Doubles adding a split of $8,000 to this total,

Truthfully speaking, this was a poor showing from Team GB. With Emma Raducanu nowhere to be seen and Murray not reaching the heights of yesteryear the British team are crying out for a new Tennis star.

If someone wants to take the mantle, they will be doing so in the most lucrative era in tennis history!

This week Everton football club were sold to the American Private Equity firm 777 Partners. That might seem like an ordinary piece of news but there are three reasons why this is particularly interesting

1. Firstly, this acquisition means that TEN of the 20 clubs in the Premier League are now owned by Americans. American participation in English football shows no sign of slowing down!

2. This is also the EIGHTH football club that 777 Partners own? Yes Eight! Everton is by far the biggest of them so it will be interested to see how they operate at the helm, but they are no strangers to football ownership.

3. The third maybe most alarming reason is that exiting boss Farhad Moshiri (pictured) has lost a LOT of money in his tenure at the Scouse club. We will not know the exact amount but it is estimated Moshiri has lost over £400m in seven short years at the helm of Everton bringing a close to one of the worst ownership stints in our lifetimes.

Moshiri has invested over £750m since he took over in 2016 and Everton have seemingly gone backwards under his stewardship.

In the last 4 seasons they have combined losses of £413.3m. They also narrowly avoided relegation last season which would have compounded those losses even further.

Typically, football ownership proves to be a lucrative move for wealthy owners. Moshiri’s run in Liverpool goes to show that for every Glazer family, there is a the other side of the coin that can have very expensive consequences.

See you next week.