Halep joined the club for $40 million

Simona Halep of Romania became only the third player to win more than $40 million in career prize money after winning Toronto’s 1,000th title on Sunday.

Halep became the champion of the Canadian session of Toronto at the expense of Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, who won her second title of the season and ninth in 1000 rounds of 18 final matches, which allowed her to break through from 15th place. sixth in the WTA rankings.

This win also saw him add $439,700 to the total prize pool, according to the official WTA website, bringing the total prize pool to $40,107.097 million.

Halep is now just over two million behind American Venus Williams ($42,300,728 million), who ranks second on the list of highest match-making players behind her sister, legend Serena Williams, who has been tweeting very far since 94 606.355 million dollars. .

If you count the players, only seven will surpass Halep in prize money, led by Serbian Novak Djokovic ($158,996,253 million), followed by Spaniard Rafael Nadal ($131,338,131 million), Swiss Roger Federer (130,594,339) and Serena. .

After a year of suffering from injury, the Romanian, winner of the 2018 Roland Garros and 2019 Wimbledon championships, has confirmed her return to the previous level, which allowed her to lead the WTA rankings for 64 weeks, finishing in seventh place on Tuesday. back-to-back win in what is her longest streak this season, after beating Russia’s Anastasia Potapova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 on Tuesday in the first round of the 1,000th session in Cincinnati.

Halep is preparing to compete in the Flushing Meadows, the last of four Grand Slams scheduled from this month to September 11, in the hope that she will make it past the fourth round for the first time since 2016, when she reached the quarter-finals. (her best semi-final result of 2015).

Source: AFP