Top 20 ATP and WTA Players Make Fresh Demands For Bigger Cut at the Four Grand Slams

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday April 2, 2025

Lower than two week after Novak Djokovic’s Skilled Tennis Gamers Affiliation – PTPA – introduced a authorized swimsuit towards the game’s foremost governing our bodies, the Prime 20 gamers of each tour are additionally taking on the trigger.

In an article printed by the French sporting journal L’équipe, it was revealed that the Prime 20 gamers from the ATP and WTA Tour have signed a letter that calls for a better proportion of revenues from the 4 Grand Slams.

The gamers are demanding a considerable enhance in prize cash, citing the truth that they obtain a considerably smaller proportion of revenues than different sporting leagues, such because the NBA (reportedly close to 50 % sharing).

L’équipe says that tennis gamers acquired about 16 % of whole revenues in whole prize cash at Roland-Garros final yr, for example.

INFO L’ÉQUIPE. Les représentants du high 20 mondial ATP et WTA ont cosigné et adressé une lettre aux quatre tournois du Grand Chelem, réclamant une augmentation substantielle de leur dotation. Après les actions en justice de la PTPA, la colère monte encore.https://t.co/oqbbrDgFFB

— Quentin Moynet (@QuentinMoynet) April 2, 2025

“I feel that that is going to learn all of the gamers, not solely the highest gamers, particularly for these gamers that work exhausting throughout all of the years and must receives a commission from the Slams, they usually need to survive,” Chinq’s Zheng Qinwen, who signed the letter, mentioned right now in Charleston. “In addition they must pay for a great group to have the ability to have a great likelihood to win the match. So I feel that is actually constructive, as a result of when you look, the basketball sport, all of them receives a commission 50/50.

“I spoke with my supervisor, and it looks like it’s a constructive profit for all of the tennis gamers. I actually consider when you find yourself No. 100 on the earth, you could have a great group to have the ability to arrive in the next place. So I feel it’s extra profit for these gamers as properly.”

When requested if she thought the Slams would listened to the gamers, Zheng mentioned:

“I don’t know, We attempt to do what we will do, after which let’s see what the gods brings to us and the Slams. However at the least we are attempting.”