{"id":695015,"date":"2026-05-26T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695015\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:28:10","slug":"tennis-players-to-hold-media-protest-ahead-of-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/695015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis players to hold media protest ahead of French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

World leading tennis players are expected to \u201cfulfil all their usual media commitments\u201d at the French Open, which began at Roland Garros on Sunday, but many of the top 10 players limited their appearance to 15 minutes<\/a> during Friday\u2019s pre-tournament media day. The limit was meant to \u201csymbolise the 15% of revenue which — on average — the Grand Slams allocate to prize money.\u201d Player representatives have mentioned that they \u201cnever intended a tournament-long protest,\u201d and \u201cwere encouraged by a promise of future co-operation at Friday\u2019s meeting with the French Tennis Federation\u201d (BBC.com, 5\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The FFT is expected to \u201csubmit a direct counter-proposal in the coming weeks to address player demands for an increase\u201d from 15% to 22% of tournament revenue, along with \u201cmeaningful contributions towards player welfare and a pension fund.\u201d The understanding is that the FFT \u201cstruck a more conciliatory approach at a productive meeting\u201d on Friday between execs on either side after the media protest — the player group is being advised by the former WTA CEO Larry Scott — and said it is \u201cready to negotiate, and a proposal that covers all three aspects of the players\u2019 demands is expected in weeks rather than months\u201d (London TIMES, 5\/23<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World leading tennis players are expected to \u201cfulfil all their usual media commitments\u201d at the French Open, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,5525,82,593],"class_list":["post-695015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-french-open","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695015","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=695015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695015\/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=695015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}