{"id":20638,"date":"2014-07-09T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/u-s-open-champs-to-get-event-record-3-million-2\/"},"modified":"2014-07-09T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:49:00","slug":"u-s-open-champs-to-get-event-record-3-million-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/u-s-open-champs-to-get-event-record-3-million-2\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Open champs to get event-record $3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White Plains, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; This year&#8217;s U.S. Open singles champions will enjoy a windfall of $3 million apiece.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Tennis Association also announced that total prize money for the Grand Slam tournament will be $38.3 million, an increase of 11.7 percent from $34.3 million a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s Open champs &#8212; Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams &#8212; pocketed $2.6 million apiece.<\/p>\n<p>A first-round singles loser in Flushing Meadows will earn $35,750, an increase of $3,750.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s Wimbledon champs &#8212; Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitova &#8212; each collected $3.019 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 U.S. Open will commence Aug. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Plains, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; This year&#8217;s U.S. Open singles champions will enjoy a windfall of $3 million apiece. The United States Tennis Association also announced that total prize money for the Grand Slam tournament will be $38.3 million, an increase of 11.7 percent from $34.3 million a year ago. Last year&#8217;s Open champs &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}