French Open Players Plan Media Protest over Prize-Money Share
Top players plan to cut media access to 15 minutes as they press Roland Garros organizers for a larger share of tournament revenue.
- On Friday, tennis players competing at Roland Garros plan to limit their conversations with reporters to 15 minutes during the tournament's traditional pre-tournament media day.
- The protest stems from a prize money dispute, as players claim their revenue share at the French Open has fallen to an alleged 14.3%, far below the 22% requested to align with ATP and WTA standards.
- With tournament revenues exceeding 400 million euros, players contend their share is diminishing, while the Australian Open and US Open increased compensation by 16 per cent and 20 per cent respectively.
- The French Tennis Federation maintains an open dialogue to discuss governance and value distribution, noting it prioritized supporting early-round participants with increases of more than 11%.
- While organizers proposed a meeting for Friday to address these concerns, top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff have previously threatened boycotts of the Grand Slams if compensation levels do not improve.
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Top-10 players plan Roland Garros prize-money protest
For symbolic reasons, the players plan to limit their media interaction during the press conference to 15 minutes. (EPA Images pic) PARIS: The bulk of the top-ranked women’s and men’s players will limit their participation in Friday’s French Open media day in a protest against what they see as their unfairly small share of Grand Slam revenue. Seven of both the women’s and men’s top ten players — including number ones Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik S…
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A number of well-known tennis players will be staging a media protest at the French Open over the share of Grand Slam prize money they receive and other reforms they want to see enacted. Earlier this year, several top ATP and WTA players, including Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff, sent a letter expressing “deep disappointment” in the upcoming French Open’s prize money pool. They claimed their pay did not reflect the increase in the tournament’s p…
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