2023-04-26 23:36:10
Polish Iga Swiatek, defending champion at Roland-Garros and the US Open. Oscar J. Barroso / PANORAMIC
“There are still things to be done concerning the equality of endowments on the WTA tournaments compared to those of the ATP”, advances the Pole.
Poland’s Iga Swiatek, who dominates women’s tennis, called on Wednesday for equal prize money between men and women in ATP and WTA tournaments, as is already the case for Grand Slam tournaments. The situation in tennisis better than in most other sports but there are still things to be done regarding the equality of prize money on the WTA tournaments compared to those of the ATP“, she explained during a press conference on the eve of her entry into the WTA 1000 in Madrid. She will face the Austrian Julia Grabher.
The Polish, defending champion at Roland Garros and the US Open, won the WTA 500 tournament in Stuttgart last week, earning just over 100,000 euros. The Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, world No.2, pocketed a check for 475,000 euros for his victory at the ATP 500 tournament in Barcelona. “The Grand Slams are already at the same level, it’s good, but it would be good if the WTA focused on this subject, but I don’t want to say more because it’s a lot of business and sometimes politicsadded Swiatek.
“We do pretty much the same job”
«I can only say that it would be good for our sport to be equal, especially because we do pretty much the same job.“, she insisted. Admitting that men’s tennis can bemore beautiful to see because players can do more things by being stronger physically and biologicallySwiatek stressed that women’s tennis was “more consistent in the game» and that there was «sometimes more emotions because we are women and we show a little more emotions».
The US Open was the first Grand Slam tournament to offer in 1973 an equal prize pool between men and women. It took until 2001 for the Australian Open to follow the American example, then 2007 with Roland-Garros and Wimbledon.
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