The Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) has finished a stupendous job in direction of the event of the game around the globe this yr, conducting 1135 skilled tournaments in 73 nations, catering to about 10,600 gamers.
The ITF posted the main points on its web site, mentioning that the yr had 571 males’s and 564 ladies’s occasions.
Girls gamers received a greater deal from ITF when it comes to prize cash, because the tournaments supplied about $17.5 million. The lads performed for a complete prize purse of $11.2 million.
The ladies’s prize cash was larger because the ITF tried to match the boys’s Challenger tournaments, organised by ATP.
The upper prize cash ITF tournaments for girls, starting from $40,000 to $125,000, had been 189, solely marginally lower than the 196 Challenger occasions of the yr for males.
The ITF solely conducts developmental occasions for women and men. The large purse occasions for women and men are performed by the ATP and WTA respectively.
