{"id":788816,"date":"2026-10-01T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788816\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:32:10","slug":"wta-confirms-major-milestone-with-equal-prize-money-at-combined-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788816\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA confirms ‘major milestone’ with equal prize money at combined events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Men and women will receive equal prize money at all combined 1,000 events – the highest level of competition outside of the Grand Slams – from next year, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has announced.<\/p>\n

Events at Indian Wells, California, Miami, Madrid and Beijing already met that commitment, as well as all four Grand Slams.<\/p>\n

However, the Italian Open, Canadian Open and Cincinnati Open will now also fall into line to meet a long-standing aim<\/a> of the WTA, at events where men and women both feature.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Italian Open organisers had vowed to have equal prize money from 2025 but did not follow through on that pledge.<\/p>\n

The total men’s prize money this year in Rome was \u00a37.3m while the women received \u00a36.3m.<\/p>\n

“Achieving equal prize money across all combined WTA 1,000 tournaments is a major milestone for tennis,” said WTA chair Valerie Camillo.<\/p>\n

“It demonstrates the WTA’s continued commitment to leading the sports industry in delivering our athletes competitive and financial equality and is a testament to the enduring nature of the founding vision of the WTA.”<\/p>\n

The WTA has also announced adjustments to the calendar to give players greater flexibility.<\/p>\n

Those alterations include a reduction – from six to four – in the number of WTA 500-level tournaments players ranked inside the top 50 in the world are mandated to play.<\/p>\n

It will also allow players to replace one eligible WTA 1,000 tournament result with a stronger WTA 500 or 250 result on their ranking.<\/p>\n

“We have listened to player feedback on the demands of the calendar, and responded with a meaningful reduction in commitments,” said Camillo.<\/p>\n

American world number three Jessica Pegula said: “The 2027 changes give us more ability to build our seasons around our own goals – competitively and personally.<\/p>\n

“That’s an impactful step forward for players.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Men and women will receive equal prize money at all combined 1,000 events – the highest level of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788816","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\/788816","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=788816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}