Top 20 ATP and WTA Players Make Fresh Demands For Bigger Cut at the Four Grand Slams

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday April 2, 2025

Lower than two week after Novak Djokovic’s Skilled Tennis Gamers Affiliation – PTPA – introduced a authorized swimsuit in opposition to the game’s principal governing our bodies, the High 20 gamers of each tour are additionally taking over the trigger.

In an article printed by the French sporting journal L’équipe, it was revealed that the High 20 gamers from the ATP and WTA Tour have signed a letter that calls for a larger proportion of revenues from the 4 Grand Slams.

The gamers are demanding a considerable improve in prize cash, citing the truth that they obtain a considerably smaller proportion of revenues than different sporting leagues, such because the NBA (reportedly close to 50 p.c sharing).

L’équipe says that tennis gamers acquired about 16 p.c of complete revenues in complete prize cash at Roland-Garros final yr, as an illustration.

INFO L’ÉQUIPE. Les représentants du high 20 mondial ATP et WTA ont cosigné et adressé une lettre aux quatre tournois du Grand Chelem, réclamant une augmentation substantielle de leur dotation. Après les actions en justice de la PTPA, la colère monte encore.https://t.co/oqbbrDgFFB

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“I feel that that is going to learn all of the gamers, not solely the highest gamers, particularly for these gamers that work exhausting throughout all of the years and have to receives a commission from the Slams, and so they need to survive,” Chinq’s Zheng Qinwen, who signed the letter, mentioned at this time in Charleston. “In addition they have to pay for an excellent workforce to have the ability to have an excellent likelihood to win the match. So I feel that is actually constructive, as a result of should you look, the basketball sport, all of them receives a commission 50/50.

“I spoke with my supervisor, and it looks like it’s a constructive profit for all of the tennis gamers. I actually consider when you find yourself No. 100 on this planet, it’s worthwhile to have an excellent workforce to have the ability to arrive in the next place. So I feel it’s extra profit for these gamers as properly.”

When requested if she thought the Slams would listened to the gamers, Zheng mentioned:

“I don’t know, We attempt to do what we will do, after which let’s see what the gods brings to us and the Slams. However at the least we are attempting.”