The ATP Tour stepped up its plans to reinforce earnings for gamers within the feeder Challenger Tour on Wednesday, growing the prize pool by $6.2 million to a file complete of $28.5 million for the 2025 season.
The Challenger Tour’s prize cash has seen a 135% enhance since 2022.
The Challenger Tour is the second rung of the skilled ladder and options almost 200 tournaments throughout greater than 40 nations every season, serving to gamers achieve important expertise, rating factors and prize cash to progress to the ATP Tour.
Gamers on the decrease ranges usually wrestle to keep up their careers attributable to a scarcity of regular sponsorship in addition to costly teaching, journey and lodging however the ATP has delivered key reforms within the Challenger Tour by way of its OneVision strategic plan.
“Making a sustainable participant pathway to the ATP Tour is important for the way forward for our sport,” ATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi stated in a press release. “… The outcomes [since 2022] have been clear: record-breaking prize cash, year-on-year will increase and most significantly, extra gamers inside the highest 250 supplied with larger monetary compensation at this stage.”
