WTA Announces 'Major Milestone' with Equal Prize Money at Italian Open and Other Big Events in 2027
The tour said the change will close a pay gap that left men with $9.6 million and women with $8.3 million in Rome this year.
- On Thursday, the WTA Tour announced all combined WTA 1000 events will award equal prize money starting in 2027, including the Italian Open, Canadian Open, and Cincinnati Open.
- Former tennis player Billie Jean King earned $600 for her 1970 Italian Open title while Ilie Nastase took home $3,500, highlighting the disparity that motivated decades of advocacy for equality.
- Italian Open organizers previously pledged equal prize money starting in 2025 but failed to deliver, making this 2027 commitment significant after years of unfulfilled promises.
- Jessica Pegula, who chaired the tour architecture council, praised the changes, saying, "As players, we're on the road most of the year, so having more flexibility makes a real difference."
- The updates will be implemented as a one-year pilot for 2027, while the WTA selected Charlotte, North Carolina, for the WTA Finals and announced an expanded WTA 250 tournament in Manila, Philippines.
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The Independent (US)WTA announces equal prize money with men for combined 1000 events
WTA chair Valerie Camillo branded the development as a ‘major milestone for tennis’
The Grand Slam tournaments have long since been like this, and now the last big WTA tournaments have followed: Women receive the same prize money as men.
The tennis tournament in Rome from 2027 will have equal prize pools for both sexes. With this, in addition to the tournaments in Canada and Cincinnati, all joint WTA 1000 tournaments will have financial equality.
London, 2 Oct (EFE).- The WTA announced that from 2027 it will match all the prizes of the WTA1000, the most important tournaments only one step below the Grand Slams. This will imply that tournaments in this category will receive the same cash prizes as the Masters 1000, its male counterpart. [...] The entry From 2027 the prizes will be equaled in all the WTA1000 was first published in HolaNews.
From 2027 all WTA 1000 tournaments with a male equivalent will have the same prize pool for men and women
Tennis is one of the sports with the least differences between men and women, something that has generated some controversy within the circuit. The WTA has taken a great step to enhance the female modality, since they have managed to equalize for the first time the economic prizes in all their combined tournaments of the ... Continue reading "Equality comes to tennis: women and men will receive the same in the Masters 1,000 in 2027"
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