By Alberto Amalfi | @TennisNow | Thursday, August 15, 2024
Picture credit score: Matthew Calvis
Gamers will get a pay elevate on the World Tennis Tour subsequent yr.
The Worldwide Tennis Federation introduced it should add $5 million in prize cash, a 26% enhance, into the 2025 World Tennis Tour.
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A file whole of $35.3 million shall be on supply in 2025 the place over 1,100 tournaments shall be performed internationally. It is a 20% enhance on the $29.4 million whole accessible in 2024.
The ITF mentioned “will increase are designed to assist ease the difficult monetary situations skilled by many gamers, by growing their incomes capability and, for ladies, lowering lodge prices – a key a part of a participant’s price range.”
There are 5 match ranges on the ladies’s ITF World Tennis Tour: W15 and W35 (entry degree); W50, W75 and W100 (equal to ATP Challenger degree). In 2025, there shall be $20.7m whole prize cash accessible – a file whole for the fourth consecutive yr.
The 2025 construction will see a lot of different enhancements to girls’s occasions, which additional slim the hole between equal girls’s and males’s tournaments. These embody:
Obligatory hospitality in any respect W50 and W75 occasions to affix the prevailing requirement at W100 tournaments (a complete of 28,000 free nights’ lodging to be offered for ladies, up from 5,000 nights in 2024)
W50 and W75 tournaments will present a minimal of three nights’ lodging for singles Foremost Draw gamers (4 nights at W100 degree) in addition to a minimal of two night time’s lodging for doubles gamers.
Improve in prize cash at W75 degree tournaments from $60,000 to $70,000 These enhancements construct on a rise lately within the variety of tournaments on the W50, W75, W100 degree: from 76 in 2019 to over 150 in 2024.
There are two match ranges on the boys’s ITF World Tennis Tour – M15 and M25 (entry degree). In 2025, there shall be $14.6m whole prize cash accessible – a file whole for the third consecutive yr.
Prize cash on the 4 entry degree males’s and girls’s World Tennis Tour tournaments will enhance from $15,000 to $20,000, and $25,000 to $30,000. This can add $5 million of prize cash into the sport at entry degree and represents a 26% enhance on 2024.
As well as, the variety of World Tennis Tour matches that shall be stay streamed will enhance to over 22,000, together with each match at M25, W50, W75 and W100 degree occasions.
“The ITF World Tennis Tour is a key a part of the tennis eco-system, and is the acknowledged pathway to the highest degree of the sport,” ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. “At present’s announcement is additional proof of the ITF’s continued dedication to ship higher prize cash, greater requirements and sustainable scheduling which make the tour a good and inclusive atmosphere for feminine and male gamers to fulfil their potential.
“Crucially, one other yr of enhanced hospitality and lodging for ladies and a fourth consecutive yr of file prize cash displays our dedication to reaching gender parity in any respect ranges. The progress we’ve seen on the ITF World Tennis Tour lately is continuous at nice tempo, and we’re excited for the long run.”
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