By Alberto Amalfi | @TennisNow | Thursday, August 15, 2024Photo credit score: Matthew Calvis
Gamers will get a pay increase on the World Tennis Tour subsequent yr.
The Worldwide Tennis Federation introduced it’ll add $5 million in prize cash, a 26% enhance, into the 2025 World Tennis Tour.
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A report complete of $35.3 million will probably be on supply in 2025 the place over 1,100 tournaments will probably be performed the world over. It is a 20% enhance on the $29.4 million complete out there in 2024.
The ITF mentioned “will increase are designed to assist ease the difficult monetary situations skilled by many gamers, by rising their incomes capability and, for girls, lowering lodge prices – a key a part of a participant’s funds.”
There are 5 event 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 will probably be $20.7m complete prize cash out there – a report complete for the fourth consecutive yr.
The 2025 construction will see numerous different enhancements to girls’s occasions, which additional slender the hole between equal girls’s and males’s tournaments. These embrace:
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 supplied for girls, up from 5,000 nights in 2024)
W50 and W75 tournaments will present a minimal of three nights’ lodging for singles Important 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 in recent times within the variety of tournaments on the W50, W75, W100 degree: from 76 in 2019 to over 150 in 2024.
There are two event ranges on the boys’s ITF World Tennis Tour – M15 and M25 (entry degree). In 2025, there will probably be $14.6m complete prize cash out there – a report complete for the third consecutive yr.
Prize cash on the 4 entry degree males’s and ladies’s World Tennis Tour tournaments will enhance from $15,000 to $20,000, and $25,000 to $30,000. This may 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 will probably 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. “Right this moment’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 setting for feminine and male gamers to fulfil their potential.
“Crucially, one other yr of enhanced hospitality and lodging for girls and a fourth consecutive yr of report prize cash displays our dedication to attaining gender parity in any respect ranges. The progress we’ve seen on the ITF World Tennis Tour in recent times is constant at nice tempo, and we’re excited for the longer term.”
