What is the Prize Money for the 2026 Stuttgart Open?

Jelena Ostapenko will enter the WTA 500 Stuttgart Open as the defending champion.

What is the Prize Money for the 2026 Stuttgart Open?

Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina, Coco Gauff, and Jelena Ostapenko (Image via X/iga archive, US Open Tennis, Tiempo De Tenis, The Tennis Letter)

In Short
  • The total prize pool for the 2026 Stuttgart Open is $1,206,446.
  • The champion will receive $188,438, while the runner-up will get $116,309.
  • Six of the top 10 players, including World No.4 Iga Swiatek, will participate in the tournament.

Top players will return to action for the Stuttgart Open, a WTA 500 tournament on clay. The qualifying round started on Saturday (April 11). The main draw will kick off on Monday (April 13) and will be concluded on Sunday (April 19).

Six of the top 10 players will be participating in the tournament, including World No.4 Iga Swiatek. But World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka, the runner-up here four times, including last year, has pulled out of the tournament. Sabalenka reached the finals in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2025. Last year, she lost to Jelena Ostapenko, who ended Swiatek’s run in the quarterfinals.

The victory in the final was the Latvian ace’s first win over the Belarusian ace after four consecutive defeats. It was also her first title on clay since her victory at the 2017 Roland Garros.

Swiatek is a two-time champion in Stuttgart. Back in 2022 and 2023, she defeated Sabalenka in the final. But in 2024, eventual champion Elena Rybakina stopped her from completing the three-peat by knocking her out in the semifinals.

Rybakina will be competing as the first seed in Sabalenka’s absence. The Kazakh ace reached her career-best No.2 ranking after her Indian Wells campaign. Sabalenka denied her second title in the tournament with a revenge win, given that it was Rybakina who stopped her from winning her third Australian Open singles title here this year.

Second seed Coco Gauff will be bidding to end her title drought. She played her first final since the 2025 Wuhan Open at the Miami Open, but failed to go past Sabalenka. The two-time Grand Slam singles champion has never progressed to the final in Stuttgart, losing to Jasmine Paolini in the quarterfinal last year.

In the 28-player draw, 19 are direct entries, while four are wild-card entrants, and four are playing in the qualifying rounds. Eight of them are seeded players in the draw, while four have received first-round byes. The eight seeded players are: Rybakina, Gauff, Swiatek, Elina Svitolina, Paolini, Mirra Andreeva, Karolina Muchova, and Ekaterina Alexandrova.

Out of the 28 players, six are ranked inside the top 10, while 12 of them are ranked inside the top 20. Alexandra Eala is also a part of the draw. She got the chance to feature following the withdrawal of the 2024 Paris Olympic champion Qinwen Zheng. Apart from the Filipino ace, Antonia Ruzic and Magdalena Frech have also been added to the draw. The wild card entrants are: Laura Siegemund, Eva Lys, Ella Seidel, and Noma Noha Akugue.

Prize money for the 2026 Stuttgart Open

The total prize pool for the Stuttgart Open is $1,206,446. The champion will receive $188,438, while the runner-up will receive $116,309.

Jelena Ostapenko, Iga Swiatek
Jelena Ostapenko, Iga Swiatek (Image via X/Biola Solace-Chukwu, Iga Swiatek)
First round$13,211
Second round$18,329
Quarterfinals$35,553
Semifinals$67,047
Runner-up$116,309
Champion$188,438

The winner will get 500 ranking points, while the runner-up will receive 325 points. Those making the semifinals will win 195 points, while the quarterfinalists will get 108 points. Players in the round of 16 and the round of 32 will get 60 points and one point, respectively.

Rybakina will clash with either wild card Tamara Korpatsch or Diana Shnaider in her campaign opener. Swiatek could face Siegemund in her first match if the German ace beats Magdalena Frech. And if the six-time Grand Slam champion reaches the quarterfinals, she could schedule a match against none other than Ostapenko, who famously holds a 6-0 head-to-head record over her.

Ostapenko will kick-start her campaign against two-time WTA 1000 champion Andreeva, and it will be their career’s first head-to-head meeting. Svitolina will face Paula Badosa or Lys, while Gauff’s second-round opponent will be Liudmila Samsonova or Ruzic.

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