{"id":682828,"date":"2026-05-20T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/682828\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:08:08","slug":"tennis-stars-plan-french-open-media-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/682828\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis stars plan French Open media protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/05\/sabalenka-players-should-boycott-grand-slams-in-pursuit-of-greater-revenue-share\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/05\/sabalenka-players-should-boycott-grand-slams-in-pursuit-of-greater-revenue-share\/\">top tennis players<\/a> in the world are \u201cplanning to protest over prize money by reducing their media appearances\u201d at the French Open. Players who will speak at Friday\u2019s opening press conference will \u201cwalk out after 15 minutes,\u201d symbolizing the Grand Slams allocating an average of 15% of their revenues to prize money. The rest of the draw will \u201crefuse to conduct additional interviews with the tournament\u2019s main media rights partners, TNT Sports and Eurosport.\u201d A source said that after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/04\/tennis-stars-voice-frustration-over-french-open-prize-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/04\/tennis-stars-voice-frustration-over-french-open-prize-money\/\">French Open confirmed the prize pot<\/a> would be US$71.7M, locker room talks led players to respond with \u201cwhat they described as a \u2018work-to-rule strategy\u2019 in Paris,\u201d with their off-court activities \u201ckept to a bare minimum\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/20\/french-open-tennis-prize-money-work-to-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/may\/20\/french-open-tennis-prize-money-work-to-rule\">London GUARDIAN, 5\/20<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The French Tennis Federation said that it will \u201ccontinue to maintain an open dialogue,\u201d adding that it \u201cproposed a meeting expected to take place Friday with the players and their representatives\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tennis-french-open-prize-money-players-protest-cd7afae5694304eef2ea66b7a2130a76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tennis-french-open-prize-money-players-protest-cd7afae5694304eef2ea66b7a2130a76\">AP, 5\/20<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top tennis players in the world are \u201cplanning to protest over prize money by reducing their media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-682828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}