The US Open men’s and women’s singles winners will get $5m (£3.7m) each as part of a total pot of $90m (£67.4m) in prize money, which the tournament says is “the largest purse in tennis history”.
The amount for the eventual singles champions is a 39% increase on 2024 when it was $3.6m (£2.8m), while the total purse has gone up 20% from the $75m (£57.8m) awarded last year.
In comparison, the total prize money at Wimbledon this year was £53.5m, with the men’s and women’s singles winners getting £3m apiece.
Earlier this year, the top 20 men’s and women’s players sent a letter to the four Grand Slams asking for a greater share of the revenue generated by the major tournaments.
“The US Open has made a deliberate and concerted effort to ensure double-digit percentage increases from 2024 in all rounds of all events for all players, while at the same time significantly increasing the percentage of prize money for athletes playing deep into the singles draws,” said a statement from the tournament organisers.
The pot of money on offer in men’s and women’s doubles at the US Open this year will be $4.78m (£3.6m) – an increase of 23% from 2024.
The tournament said that “for the first time ever” the winners of the men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles would get $1m (£749,000) in prize money per team.
The US Open will also be providing $5m (£3.7m) in support for costs, including travel and expenses, for players in the main draw, while the prize money for the men’s and women’s qualifying tournaments will rise by 10% to $8m (£6m).
Lesley Ugochukwu from Chelsea has been signed for more than £20 million, according to Burnley.
At Turf Moor, the 21-year-old has agreed to a five-year contract.
According to BBC Sport, the fee is comparable to Chelsea’s $3.2 million purchase of Ugochukwu from Rennes in 2023.
Ugochukwu praised the signing as “a great feeling.”
I was interested in learning more about the project as soon as I learned about the club’s interest in signing me. The club and Maxime Esteve, both of whom I spoke to, both had such a strong passion for the direction the club is taking.
With the ambition the club is displaying, it seems like the best course of action for me at this point in my career.
As Chelsea prepares to sell several players in their so-called “bomb squad,” which includes England internationals Raheem Sterling and Ben Chilwell, they are training separately from Enzo Maresca’s first team. Ugochukwu was deemed surplus to requirements at Stamford Bridge.
Before joining Southampton on a season-long loan for 2024-25, Ugochukwu made 15 appearances in all competitions during his first two years at Chelsea.
Armando Broja, a 23-year-old Chelsea forward, is another player in talks with Burnley.
Sami Sheen, the daughter of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen, made an enraging statement about a terrifying incident she had in a parking lot after leaving a restaurant.
Denise Richards’ daughter Sami shares a terrifying incident in a car park(Image: Instagram/ SamiSheen)
Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen’s daughter, Sami Sheen, claimed that she and her friend were left terrified after being approached by men in a parking lot. The 21-year-old took to her TikTok page to make the terrifying claim, explaining how she and her friend left a restaurant at midnight and was in the parking lot when the incident occurred.
“We were taking photos in the parking lot as we were leaving.” We spent about five minutes together while she was receiving some photos. This man suddenly asks for money when he walks up to us. She turned her face to indicate the direction she was looking at because he is on the right side of the parking lot.
Sami said she told the man she didn’t have any cash on her, adding that she ‘doesn’t carry cash on her’. The man was ‘pretty persistent’ as he asked the girls whether they had other online apps to transfer him money.
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Sami Sheen shared the terrifying claim on social media(Image: TIKTOK)
“I was like, ‘I’m sorry, no’, and he was like, ‘Okay, have a good night’. I turn my head and there was another man in front of us. I got the heebie-jeebies. The second I saw this man, I had the worst feeling in my stomach and I’m like, ‘Get the f**k away from him right now’. And my friend Grace, I could tell she had the same feeling.
I’m actually having chills right now. And he asks, “Do you speak Spanish? ” and we answer. Before he continued to ask her more questions, she replied, “She told him she didn’t.”
She continued, “I couldn’t understand what he was saying, and then he began to reach into my purse and apply pepper spray to my back pocket.” He recognized that and began to pull a card out.
“I don’t know what he was doing, but I looked at my friend and we both immediately called it in,” he said.
The daughter of Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards said the incident happened in a parking lot(Image: @samisheen/Instagram)
“We debriefed it the whole drive home because we were like, ‘That is so weird, I feel like they were working together’. I don’t know, it was really weird.
Sami continued, “We looked through the photos, and the man was watching us the entire time,” before sharing that he was staring at them in the background of the couple’s photo.
“The entire f**king time,” He was simply staring at us. every single f**king photo has a background.
“I didn’t notice this man because I’m typically very aware of my surroundings.” I suppose this indicates that you should be even more aware, more cautious, and more confident in your gut. Even if it was harmless, it’s still better to be safe than sorry. I’m not sure, but I don’t believe he had good intentions.
The image gives me chills, she wrote in the caption.
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Oasis’ Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher performed at Wembley Stadium last week and it’s now been revealed that the Spice Girls’ Mel C and Geri Horner reunited at one of the gigs
Two of the Spice Girls, pictured at the BRIT Awards in 1997, reunited at an Oasis concert recently(Image: Getty Images)
Two of the Spice Girls reunited at an Oasis recently almost three decades on from rumoured tension between them. Mel C and Geri Horner were among the fans at Wembley Stadium for one of the rock band’s shows last week.
The Oasis Live ’25 tour arrived at the stadium in London last month for five concerts ahead of additional shows at the venue later in the year. Mel, 51, and Geri, 53, were among those in the crowd at one of the gigs held last week.
Geri had previously shared that she had met three of the Lionesses whilst in the audience. Now, in a post celebrating her birthday today, it has been revealed that ‘Ginger Spice’ reunited with her former bandmate Mel in the stands too.
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Spice Girls bandmates Mel C (left) and Geri Horner (right) reunited at an Oasis gig at Wembley Stadium recently(Image: melaniecmusic/Instagram)
Mel, nicknamed Sporty Spice, paid tribute to Geri in a post on Instagram this morning for the occasion. She wrote: “Happy Birthday darling @gerihalliwellhorner, our Ginger Spice. Have an amazing day, love you to pieces.”
The post included a series of photos showing them over the years. It included a photo of Mel and Geri stood together in the stands at Wembley Stadium recently, with the former sporting a lanyard that featured Oasis’ band logo.
Mel is seen wearing a blue top and trousers, whilst Geri attended the gig in a white jumpsuit. It appears to be the same outfit Geri was wearing in a photo with England footballers Alex Greenwood, 31, Hannah Hampton, 24, and Alessia Russo, 26, at an Oasis gig last Wednesday.
Geri had previously shared that she met footballers Alex Greenwood (left), Hannah Hampton (centre right) and Alessia Russo (right) at the venue(Image: gerihalliwellhorner/Instagram)
It comes following speculation of a ‘feud’ between the Spice Girls and Oasis, which includes Liam Gallagher, 52, and Noel Gallagher, 58, in its line-up, years ago. Mel’s previously said that there is “no beef” between them though.
The rumour dates back to the BRIT Awards in 1997, when both bands were up for awards. Hinting an issue with the Spice Girls, Liam reportedly said that he wouldn’t attend as he would “smack them” if he bumped into them.
During the Spice Girls’ acceptance speech for British Single of the Year, which was given to their debut single Wannabe, rather than Oasis’ song Don’t Look Back in Anger, Mel had a message for Liam. She said on stage: “I just wanna say, Liam, come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!”
Mel’s attendance at the Oasis gig comes years after there was thought to be tension between her and Liam Gallagher(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Years later though, she dismissed any suggestion of a feud by posing for a photo with Liam and some of her bandmates at the Olympics in 2012, following the Spice Girls’ performance. The group were said to have partied together.
More recently, as reported by On The Radio, Mel spoke about Liam when she guest hosted BBC Radio 2’s Sounds of the 90s in 2020. She was joined by pal Geri, who teased that she put “those boys” in their place at the BRITs in 1997.
Mel is quoted as having said: “Yeah so Liam Gallagher had been bad mouthing us and I told him to come and have a go if he thinks he’s hard enough. I’d actually never met him and I got to meet him a few months later and he was like ‘c’mon then, scouse’ kind of offering me out … he’s gone on to make some great records as well, so yeah, no beef.”
Geri reportedly said she would often see Liam in a park, further dismissing the idea of any tension between the bands by saying that they say ‘good morning’ to each other. Mel joked: “Yeah not so rock and roll anymore, are you now, Liam?”
Mel and Geri aren’t the only Spice Girls members to have been at an Oasis reunion gig. Last month, their bandmate Mel B, 50, watched the rock band at Heaton Park with her husband Rory McPhee, 37, her eldest child Phoenix Brown, 26, and cousin Christian Cooke, 37, who is a close pal of Rory.
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