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Top tennis players renew feud with grand slam tournaments over prize money

The Independent·Jamie Braidwood·29 days ago
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The world’s top tennis players have expressed their “deep and collective disappointment” at the prize money on offer at this year’s Roland Garros . While French Open organisers have announced an increase of 9.5 per cent in total prize money for this year’s tournament, rising to an overall pot of €61.7m (£53.7m), several leading players from the men’s and women’s top 10 continue to be frustrated. The group of star players, including Carlos Alcaraz , Jannik Sinner , Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff , have long argued that they should receive a greater percentage of the revenues generated by the four grand slam tournaments and were similarly disappointment by the prize money at this year’s Australian Open . According to the group, their share of the overall revenue generated by Roland Garros is projected to decline to 14.3 per cent this year.…

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