Defending men’s champion Sinner shut down questions about the protest – saying he wanted to talk only about tennis – in a short English language section before switching to Italian.<\/p>\n
Others – including defending women’s champion Iga Swiatek and former world number one Daniil Medvedev – also limited their media commitments to one main news conference and one or two broadcast interviews.<\/p>\n
It was the second successive Slam where players protested at what they perceive as a lack of action following a similar move at last month’s French Open.<\/p>\n
In comparison, seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic – who is not participating in the protest – held a 15-minute news conference and spoke to 18 television outlets across about an hour.<\/p>\n
“Maybe what we did at Roland Garros partly helped us to push Wimbledon,” said Medvedev.<\/p>\n
“We’re not accountants but we’re processing the information we are given. We’re seeing the percentage of the revenue is lower than 10 years ago, so we’re kind of getting less money.<\/p>\n
“We’re pushing for something more which we think is fair. Nobody is angry – it is just a discussion.”<\/p>\n
On Saturday, protesting players were timing their news conferences, with several agents seen urging moderators to wrap them up.<\/p>\n
Sally Bolton, the All England Club’s chief executive, told BBC Sport on Friday she was “surprised and disappointed” by the move to protest.<\/p>\n
Australian sixth seed Alex de Minaur was involved in the protests at last month’s French Open but decided he did not want to take part at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
“I think the sense that we had at Roland Garros was everyone was on board, even though we didn’t, as a collective, achieve the numbers that we were looking for,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I thought that Wimbledon made a big step in the right direction, and something that should be noted. So this is for me to acknowledge their big step.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending men’s champion Sinner shut down questions about the protest – saying he wanted to talk only about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661664","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=661664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}