The proposals would mean only 16 teams competing at ATP 1000 events and eight at the smaller tournaments on the men’s tour.<\/p>\n
The percentage of prize money devoted to doubles players could fall from 20% to 10% – with the money redistributed to singles players.<\/p>\n
There are concerns the current size of doubles events puts greater strain on player facilities at tournaments.<\/p>\n
“We understand where we are in the sport but I don’t think we should be devalued,” said British former world number one Neal Skupski.<\/p>\n
“Some people don’t appreciate how much effort we put in day in, day out to this sport. <\/p>\n
“It’s not like we just turn up to tournaments, have a giggle and go on to the next tournament.”<\/p>\n
At the first Masters 1000 event of the year in Indian Wells, Jannik Sinner received $1.151m (\u00a3860,000) for winning the title. Guido Andreozzi and Manuel Guinard took home $234,000 (\u00a3175,000) each for their doubles triumph.<\/p>\n
The players argue the changes mean there would be no future for doubles players ranked outside the world’s top 30.<\/p>\n
The ATP outlined their plans in a players’ meeting at the All England Club, where Italy’s Andrea Vavassori and El Salvador’s Marcelo Arevalo represented the doubles players.<\/p>\n
“It is just a proposal, of course,” said two-time French Open champion Arevalo.<\/p>\n
“But it should be a time to give more opportunities to tennis players rather than giving them away.”<\/p>\n
An ATP spokesperson said: “We are assessing the doubles product, draw sizes and player compensation distribution with the aim of creating a more sustainable long-term model while maintaining doubles’ important role on the tour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The proposals would mean only 16 teams competing at ATP 1000 events and eight at the smaller tournaments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672301","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\/672301","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=672301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}