Latin America: male tennis players' career prize earnings 2022

The Argentine Juan Martín del Potro was the Latin American tennis player who had generated the highest prize money earnings on the ATP Tennis World Tour as of early 2022. Del Potro, who played his last professional match on February 9 of that year, earned almost 26 million U.S. dollars throughout his career on the tour. Gustavo Kuerten, a Brazilian tennis player who retired in 2008, comes in second with total career earnings amounting to 14.8 million U.S. dollars.

How do Latin Americans do in the ATP Ranking?

Without any doubt, Argentina is the major producer of tennis players in Latin America. Out of the seven top players in the region’s ATP Ranking in early 2022, six were from that country. At that time, the list was led by Diego Schwartzman, whose most important victory was the 2018 ATP 500 in Brazil. However, in the history of the ATP Ranking, only two Latin Americans have made it to the top: Marcelo Ríos from Chile and Gustavo Kuerten from Brazil.

Which tennis player has won the most prize money?

Worldwide, Novak Djokovic leads the ranking of professional tennis players by prize money earnings, with more than 150 million U.S. dollars, followed by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. The Serb also leaded the 2021 annual money earnings ranking.