2 hours ago Leading tennis players volition grow their prize wealth protestation astatine Wimbledon - contempt a 20% increase successful this year's pot.
Some players constricted pre-tournament media to 15 minutes astatine the caller French Open, but volition spell a measurement further astatine Wimbledon.
They volition not lone bounds the clip they connection astatine the forthcoming media weekend, but are besides readying to restrict post-match appearances to 15 minutes passim the archetypal week of the championships, which commencement connected Monday.
The 15-minute bounds is meant to symbolise the 15% of gross which - broadly speaking - the Grand Slams allocate to prize money.
It is claimed the determination has the enactment of astir of the world's apical 20 players.
In Paris, women's satellite fig 1 Aryna Sabalenka chopped abbreviated her pre-tournament property conference, portion players similar Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek besides followed the 'work to rule' directive.
But Novak Djokovic, who has regularly spoken retired connected behalf of players' rights, did not instrumentality portion successful the action.
Earlier this period the players welcomed Wimbledon's 20% summation arsenic a "genuine and important measurement forward".
The full prize money astatine this year's championships volition beryllium £64.2m, pursuing the largest yearly summation successful the event's history.
The singles' champions volition each instrumentality location £3.6m with first-round losers paid £80,000.
The players issued a connection describing the announcement arsenic a "meaningful connection of intent" - portion besides pointing retired it inactive does not equate to the 16% of tourney gross they are requesting.
As good arsenic campaigning for the Grand Slams to nexus prize wealth to tourney revenue, players are besides asking for contributions to their payment excavation and a greater accidental successful however the events are run.
The full prize wealth sum is astir £7m abbreviated of what the players had been hoping for.
"We don't look astatine percentages, we don't really judge that is the close metric," Deborah Jevans, the seat of the All England Club, told BBC Sport earlier this month.
"It is 1 metric that is based purely connected gross and doesn't instrumentality into relationship immoderate costs and we cannot tally a concern successful that way.
"We person expenses - we person spoken astir infrastructure and concern successful writer tribunal tennis.
"You cannot tally a sustainable business, and we person astir been astir for 150 years, conscionable by looking astatine revenue. That is conscionable plainly wrong."
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