By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday April 5, 2023
The Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome, one of many greatest clay court docket occasions in tennis, is lastly taking steps within the path of equal prize cash.
The event, the ultimate Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 occasion previous to Roland-Garros each season, plans to get there by 2025.
In 2022, they weren’t even shut. Girls’s singles champion Ig Swiatek acquired a test for 332,260 euros whereas males’s singles champion Novak Djokovic took dwelling 836,355 euros.
“For the primary time in historical past we now have began the method that over three years will result in equal prize cash between the ladies’s and the boys’s tournaments,” Italian tennis federation president Angelo Binaghi stated Tuesday on the presentation for this season’s occasion, which shall be held Could 10-21, according to the AP.
“We’re speaking about 8 million euros for every occasion. We will make this massive leap as a result of the primary feminine CEO of an enormous financial institution in Italy has offered us with the required sources.”
He was referring to Elena Goitini, the chief government of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, the Italian Open’s essential sponsor.
The occasion will take an even bigger piece of the tennis calendar, shifting ahead. Rome will develop from eight to 12 days this 12 months and can function 96-player attracts, in comparison with 56 in years previous.
“We’re excited for the dedication that has been made by the Rome occasion to make sure that is in place by 2025,” the WTA Tour informed The Related Press. “It’s our hope to see this dedication achieved at extra WTA occasions.”
