Jannik Sinner would not take part in any future Grand Slam boycott due to the stakes involved in his career, according to Patrick Mouratoglou, amid an ongoing dispute over prize money distribution.<\/p>\n
With the French Open set to begin, the build-up to the season\u2019s second Grand Slam has been, somewhat, overshadowed by tensions over player compensation.<\/p>\n
During the Italian Open, several top players reiterated that they would be willing to boycott future Grand Slams if prize money does not increase significantly.<\/p>\n
The argument centres on the belief that, given record revenues from broadcasting rights, sponsorship, ticket sales and merchandise, player prize money should rise proportionally.<\/p>\n
Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev are among those who have voiced concerns, although not all have committed to the idea of skipping events.<\/p>\n
Mouratoglou, the former coach of Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Holger Rune and Simona Halep, believes world No 1 Sinner<\/a> would ultimately avoid any boycott scenario due to his title ambitions.<\/p>\n Iga Swiatek declares players are not \u2018slaves\u2019 as she explains new French Open outlook<\/a><\/p>\n Novak Djokovic confident he has \u2018options\u2019 to end Jannik Sinner run and win French Open after injury update<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t believe in the boycott this year, it\u2019s still very new for the top players to get together and put pressure on an event or a governing body,\u201d Mouratoglou said in an Instagram video.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have PTPA on the side, which is the association of the players. Then you have this new group that puts together most of the top ones, and this one has clearly more power because if they decide we\u2019re not going to play Roland Garros, then Roland Garros will have to take decisions.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it\u2019s new. For some players to play Roland Garros this particular year can be the most important goal of their whole season.<\/p>\n \u201cFor someone like Sinner, there is so much on the line for him. He\u2019s not going to screw everything up to get a bit more prize money. It would not make sense for him.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only way to have the power is to be all on the same line with the same aligned interest, which I don\u2019t feel is the case.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to boycott or even threaten to boycott Roland Garros this year.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite Mouratoglou\u2019s view that Sinner would be unlikely to support a boycott, the Italian recently said he understands why players are raising the issue.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, we are talking about money, but the most important thing is respect, and we just don\u2019t feel it,\u201d the world No 1 said earlier in May.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we players are also a bit disappointed with the outcome from Roland Garros, for example. So let\u2019s see what\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n \u201cI think in the next couple of weeks we\u2019ll also know the prize money we\u2019re going to have at Wimbledon, and we truly hope it\u2019s going to be better \u2013 and then, of course, the US Open.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I do understand players talking about a boycott, because somewhere we also need to start, and it has been going on for a very long time now. Then we\u2019ll see what happens in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite no official boycott at Roland Garros, players including Sinner, Zverev, Swiatek and Sabalenka have agreed to limit their daily media obligations to 15 minutes.<\/p>\n The tournament has increased its total prize pool by 9.53% compared to last season, below the US Open\u2019s 20% rise and the Australian Open\u2019s 16% increase.<\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<\/span>a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust<\/strong><\/p>\n The post Patrick Mouratoglou explains why Jannik Sinner would never take part in a Grand Slam boycott<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jannik Sinner would not take part in any future Grand Slam boycott due to the stakes involved in his career, according to Patrick Mouratoglou, amid an ongoing dispute over prize money distribution. With the French Open set to begin, the build-up to the season\u2019s second Grand Slam has been, somewhat, overshadowed by tensions over player […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Latest Tennis News<\/h2>\n