It took further than three decades after the founding of the Women’s Tennis Association for all four Grand Slam events to agree to give the same prize plutocrat to womanish and manly players. Now the women’s stint is pledging to make sure its athletes also get identical hires at some other top-league events in the coming times.
TheSt. Petersburg, Florida- grounded WTA blazoned Tuesday that it's revising its season timetable and rules about which players must enter certain events, while also setting up what it called a “ pathway to equal prize plutocrat.
All changes will need to be approved by the WTA Board of Directors in August, a commodity the stint expects to be. The proffers include adding the number of 1000 events to 10, with events in Beijing( 2024), Cincinnati( 2025) and Canada( 2025) expanding to two weeks with larger fields; new rules to boost participation by leading players in the biggest events; and making mates rankings grounded on stylish 18 results — not just stylish 16 — plus the WTA Tests.
One illustration of the kind of pay distinction going on presently is When Iga Swiatek won the 2022 Italian Open, she entered a check for a little further than 330,000 euros( about$ 365,000), which was lower than half of the roughly 835,000 euros( further than$ 900,000) that Novak Djokovic earned for winning the men’s title in Rome that time.
This April, Italian tennis confederation chairman Angelo Binaghi said that the country’s main event aims to give the same prize plutocrat to women and men as of 2025. The WTA gestured its intention to arrive at Tuesday’s news by responding to Binaghi’s statement with this comment back also “ It's our stopgap to see this commitment achieved at further WTA events.
TheU.S. Open was the first major event to pay women and men the same, starting in 1973. The Australian Open permanently established equal prize plutocrat in 2001; the French Open gave its two mates titleholders the same quantum in 2006 and spread that to every round in 2007; Wimbledon committed to equal pay across the board in 2007.
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