LONDON — An additional $18.3 million in prize cash shall be paid by the ATP males’s tennis tour to gamers primarily based on their performances ultimately 12 months’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 ATP mentioned.
The expanded Masters tour stops — with women and men enjoying on the identical occasion, bigger attracts and lengthier match schedules — have drawn criticism from gamers for being too lengthy.
The backdrop to all of that is calls for from some athletes for more cash and extra say within the sport.
The Skilled Tennis Gamers’ Affiliation, a bunch co-founded by Novak Djokovic, filed a class-action antitrust swimsuit in March in opposition to the ATP, the WTA ladies’s tour, the Worldwide Tennis Federation and the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company, calling them a “cartel.”
