Iga Swiatek stated she hopes the governing physique of the ladies’s recreation can do extra to spice up the tour in 2023 and additional cut back the pay hole which exists between the lads’s and ladies’s excursions outdoors the game’s greatest tournaments.
Tennis has sought to be a frontrunner within the battle for equality within the final couple of a long time with equal prize cash supplied to women and men on the 4 Grand Slams.
WTA Tour occasions, nevertheless, nonetheless usually provide much less prize cash than these on the lads’s tour, which operates its personal circuit.
Our tennis brings the identical feelings as males’s tennis. There’s one thing you will discover in ladies’s tennis that you just’re not going to search out on the ATP.
World No 1 Iga Swiatek
World No 1 Swiatek stated one of many prime priorities for the tour because it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary ought to be to make sure occasions are extra engaging for gamers, sponsors, organisers and followers.
“For certain, I’d wish to see the WTA increasing business-wise, getting extra well-liked, slicing the distinction between WTA and ATP by way of prize cash and attracting followers,” Swiatek stated.
A report within the Financial Times stated the lads’s ATP Tour as of halfway by means of final 12 months supplied gamers 75 per cent extra prize cash in tournaments – excluding the Grand Slams – than the ladies’s tour.
“Our tennis brings the identical feelings as males’s tennis. There’s one thing you will discover in ladies’s tennis that you just’re not going to search out on the ATP,” Swiatek stated.
“Right now, after a few years of listening to we’re not constant, we’re really constant. There are prime gamers who’re enjoying nice in many of the tournaments.”
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The WTA suspended profitable tournaments in China over considerations for Peng Shuai
In a transfer anticipated to price the affiliation a whole lot of tens of millions of {dollars} in broadcasting and sponsorship, the WTA suspended profitable tournaments in China over considerations for former doubles No 1 Peng Shuai.
She accused a senior Chinese authorities official of sexual assault in a 2021 social media submit that was faraway from the nation’s web. She later denied making the accusation.
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Jessica Pegula needs to see women and men enjoying on the identical courtroom
American Jessica Pegula, world No 3 and a member of the WTA participant council, echoed Swiatek’s feedback.
“I hope we will maintain pushing for equal prize cash in any respect occasions, being on TV extra,” Pegula stated.
She pointed to the United Cup combined crew match earlier this season as a technique to obtain that.
“We’re beginning to see slowly, extra of it, particularly with the United Cup, the response of everybody eager to see women and men enjoying on the identical courtroom, on the identical crew, which was actually enjoyable for us. People like to see that.”
