{"id":420838,"date":"2026-01-18T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420838\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:15:07","slug":"worlds-top-tennis-players-revolt-over-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420838\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds top tennis players revolt over pay\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s top tennis players and their agents have held a series of private meetings in Melbourne over the past three days and agreed to escalate industrial action for a bigger share of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/topic\/australian-open-tennis-5up\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a>\u2019s revenue as the tournament officially kicks off to record crowds.<\/p>\n<p>The agents of the top 10 mens and womens players met in Melbourne on Saturday, following a meeting of a new player council on Friday to discuss the escalating dispute, a source involved in the meetings told The Australian Financial Review on the condition of anonymity because negotiations were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s top tennis players and their agents have held a series of private meetings in Melbourne over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-420838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}