{"id":534364,"date":"2026-04-16T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534364\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:13:08","slug":"french-open-prize-money-to-increase-by-9-5-for-2026-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534364\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open prize money to increase by 9.5% for 2026 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tournament director Amelie Mauresmo has promised there will be no expansion of cameras in player areas at Roland Garros this year.<\/p>\n

Iga Swiatek said players were being watched “like animals in the zoo” at January’s Australian Open.<\/p>\n

Coco Gauff called for more privacy after being caught on camera smashing her racquet at Melbourne Park, and Pegula described the constant filming as an “invasion of privacy”.<\/p>\n

“The broadcasters want to know more about players – it’s true,” Mauresmo said at the news conference in Paris.<\/p>\n

“But we want to maintain the respect for their privacy. They need to have a private area, so we won’t change on that stance.”<\/p>\n

Some players will also be happy to know they will be allowed to wear approved fitness trackers for the first time at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz were all asked to remove devices<\/a> before matches at the Australian Open, but a trial has now been agreed which will extend to Wimbledon and the US Open.<\/p>\n

Tracking technology can help monitor a person’s sleep, strain, stress and heart, and has been allowed on the WTA and ATP Tours for some time.<\/p>\n

One tradition which will remain at Roland Garros for at least another year is line judges.<\/p>\n

The other three Grand Slams have introduced electronic line calling (ELC) in recent years, and it has been mandatory on the ATP Tour since 2025.<\/p>\n

But Gilles Moretton, the president of the FFT, maintains the technology is far from perfect and that line judges play a vital role in the ecosystem of French tennis.<\/p>\n

“We look around, we see what is going on elsewhere, we see that it’s not perfect – there’s a 10% margin of error,” Moretton claimed.<\/p>\n

“We saw it in Madrid last year. There was a picture taken by a player [Alexander Zverev – of a mark on the clay].<\/p>\n

“But we have tournaments every weekend, every week. We need these people, they do a wonderful job.<\/p>\n

“On clay, we are lucky because we can have the footprints of the balls.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tournament director Amelie Mauresmo has promised there will be no expansion of cameras in player areas at Roland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-534364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}