Under pressure from the players and with other tournaments upping their purses, the U.S. Open and the USTA are expected to announce today that prize money in the annual event will hit $50 million by 2017.
Here are details:
http://msn.foxsports.com/tennis/story/us-open-will-increase-prize-money-to-%2450M-by-2017-031913
A teleconference with reporters is scheduled today.