By Alberto Amalfi | @TennisNow | Thursday, August 15, 2024
Picture credit score: Matthew Calvis
Gamers will get a pay increase on the World Tennis Tour subsequent 12 months.
The Worldwide Tennis Federation introduced it’s going to add $5 million in prize cash, a 26% improve, into the 2025 World Tennis Tour.
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A document whole of $35.3 million will probably be on provide in 2025 the place over 1,100 tournaments will probably be performed internationally. It is a 20% improve on the $29.4 million whole out there in 2024.
The ITF mentioned “will increase are designed to assist ease the difficult monetary circumstances skilled by many gamers, by rising their incomes capability and, for ladies, lowering resort prices – a key a part of a participant’s finances.”
There are 5 match ranges on the ladies’s ITF World Tennis Tour: W15 and W35 (entry stage); W50, W75 and W100 (equal to ATP Challenger stage). In 2025, there will probably be $20.7m whole prize cash out there – a document whole for the fourth consecutive 12 months.
The 2025 construction will see a lot of different enhancements to girls’s occasions, which additional slender the hole between equal girls’s and males’s tournaments. These embrace:
Necessary 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 Essential Draw gamers (4 nights at W100 stage) in addition to a minimal of two night time’s lodging for doubles gamers.
Enhance in prize cash at W75 stage tournaments from $60,000 to $70,000 These enhancements construct on a rise lately within the variety of tournaments on the W50, W75, W100 stage: from 76 in 2019 to over 150 in 2024.
There are two match ranges on the lads’s ITF World Tennis Tour – M15 and M25 (entry stage). In 2025, there will probably be $14.6m whole prize cash out there – a document whole for the third consecutive 12 months.
Prize cash on the 4 entry stage males’s and ladies’s World Tennis Tour tournaments will improve 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 stage and represents a 26% improve on 2024.
As well as, the variety of World Tennis Tour matches that will probably be stay streamed will improve to over 22,000, together with each match at M25, W50, W75 and W100 stage occasions.
“The ITF World Tennis Tour is a key a part of the tennis eco-system, and is the acknowledged pathway to the highest stage of the sport,” ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. “At the moment’s announcement is additional proof of the ITF’s continued dedication to ship higher prize cash, increased 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 12 months of enhanced hospitality and lodging for ladies and a fourth consecutive 12 months of document prize cash displays our dedication to attaining gender parity in any respect ranges. The progress we have now seen on the ITF World Tennis Tour lately is constant at nice tempo, and we’re excited for the longer term.”
