{"id":724944,"date":"2026-06-09T10:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724944\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:27:14","slug":"priscilla-hon-calls-out-prize-money-disparity-at-libema-open-tennis-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724944\/","title":{"rendered":"Priscilla Hon calls out prize money disparity at Lib\u00e9ma Open tennis tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian tennis player Priscilla Hon has drawn attention to the difference between the men’s and women’s prize money at the Lib\u00e9ma Open in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

The 146th-ranked Hon posted to Instagram about the gap between the men’s winner’s purse of 110,055 euros ($180,214) as opposed to the women’s 32,520 euros ($53,251).<\/p>\n

Hon’s caption read: “Same tournament. Same draw. Very different paycheck.”<\/p>\n

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She was at pains to explain this was not the fault of the Lib\u00e9ma organisers.<\/p>\n

“Before anyone gets mad, I’m just sharing the numbers. This week, a WTA 250 and ATP 250 are running side by side in the same city,” she wrote, before elaborating in the comments,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

“Just to be clear this is a system wide issue, not a Lib\u00e9ma Open issue. Just sharing the numbers and starting a conversation.”<\/p>\n

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The men’s and women’s tournaments in the Dutch city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch are run separately by the ATP and WTA, but both are 250 tournaments \u2014 the smallest type of tournament in the top flight of the men’s and women’s tours.<\/p>\n

That means the winner receives 250 ranking points, below 500 and 1,000 tournaments as well as the grand slams, where champions receive 2,000.<\/p>\n

The majors, governed by the International Tennis Federation, give the same prize money for the men’s and women’s singles victors.<\/p>\n

There are three Australian women playing Lib\u00e9ma \u2014 Daria Kasatkina, Kimberly Birrell and Ajla Tomljanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n

Sixth-ranked Alex de Minaur is the second seed in the men’s draw, behind world number four Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n

De Minaur is kicking off his grass court swing at the Dutch tournament after a disappointing stretch on clay, when he won just seven matches from six tournaments, including three Masters 1,000 events and the French Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian tennis player Priscilla Hon has drawn attention to the difference between the men’s and women’s prize money…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,351111,23918,70623,85,747],"class_list":["post-724944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-libema-open","tag-pay","tag-priscilla-hon","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724944","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=724944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}