LONDON — An additional $18.3 million in prize cash will probably be paid by the ATP males’s tennis tour to gamers based mostly on their performances finally yr’s 9 Masters 1000 tournaments below a profit-sharing plan launched in 2022.
The ATP mentioned Thursday that quantity is a rise from the $6.6 million profit-sharing bonus from Masters occasions in 2023.
By including within the profit-sharing quantity, total compensation for ATP gamers in 2024 rises to a file $261 million, the tour mentioned.
The expanded Masters tour stops — with women and men taking part in on the similar occasion, bigger attracts and lengthier event schedules — have drawn criticism from gamers for being too lengthy.
The backdrop to all of that is calls for from some athletes for extra money and extra say within the sport.
The Skilled Tennis Gamers’ Affiliation, a gaggle co-founded by Novak Djokovic, filed a class-action antitrust go well with in March towards the ATP, the WTA ladies’s tour, the Worldwide Tennis Federation and the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company, calling them a “cartel.”
