{"id":600416,"date":"2026-05-23T21:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600416\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T21:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:13:17","slug":"french-open-player-protest-over-pay-to-end-as-tournament-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600416\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open: Player protest over pay to end as tournament begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players are asking for a higher share of Grand Slam revenue to be dedicated to prize money &#8211; as well as contributions to their benefit pot and a wider say in issues such as scheduling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Player representatives have meetings planned with executives from both the All England Club (AELTC) and the US Tennis Association in the second week of the French Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The next pivotal moment of the dispute will be when the AELTC announces the prize money for this year&#8217;s Wimbledon on 11 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players are asking each Grand Slam to devote 16% of their revenue to prize money this year. After taking last year&#8217;s revenue of \u00a3427m, and adjusting for inflation, that demand would equate to over \u00a370m at Wimbledon &#8211; or a 34% rise on the \u00a353.5m prize money offered in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players are also asking each Slam to make a $4m (\u00a32.98m) contribution to their benefit pool this year, and further action is a possibility when Wimbledon begins on 28 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Players are asking for a higher share of Grand Slam revenue to be dedicated to prize money &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-600416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600416","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=600416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}