Andy Roddick has expressed his dismay that Moise Kouame seemingly cannot receive his French Open prize money despite his Grand Slam breakthrough.<\/p>\n
In a tournament where seeds in the men\u2019s draw have scattered like skittles in scorching Parisian temperatures, some remarkable stories have come to the fore.<\/p>\n
No more so than 17-year-old Kouame, who backed up his win over 2014 US Open<\/a> champion Marin Cilic with a victory over Adolfo Daniel Vallejo to reach the third round of the French Open for the first time.<\/p>\n The teenager has set a number of records along the way, along with enjoying a seismic jump up the ATP rankings to 214.<\/p>\n After beating Cilic, Kouame<\/a> earned \u20ac87,000 (\u00a375,473) and then picked up another \u20ac130,000 (\u00a3112,775) for his second-round win. But it seems the youngster won\u2019t be able to pocket that cash injection for a while yet.<\/p>\n Who is Moise Kouame? 17-year-old star +108 in rankings amid French Open run<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Roland Garros set for a shock finalists after Jannik Sinner crashes out<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n On the latest episode of Served,<\/a> show producer, Mike Hayden, revealed that under French Law, minors (under-18s) are not allowed to receive or spend prize money or significant earnings directly.<\/p>\n Instead, their earnings are legally protected to prevent exploitation. Kouame only turned 17 in March, so he has quite a way to go before he can pocket that \u00a3173,440.<\/p>\n Former world No 1 Roddick<\/a> was stunned by this revelation.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cWait, so you have a job, you make money and they won\u2019t give you money? That\u2019s seems absurd to me. It seems absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n When Producer Mike stood by this assertion, Roddick added, he better be getting an interest rate while the government holds that back.<\/p>\n Kouame may not be too focused on that as he plays former world No 19 Alejandro Tabilo in round three of the French Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n The home favourite will be eyeing a dream run in a tournament where overwhelming favourite Jannik Sinner<\/a> suffered a shock loss to Juan Manuel Cerundolo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Kouame was in the Italian\u2019s half of the draw and like many left in the competition, the Frenchman will be licking his lips at the prospect of a deep run.<\/p>\n After winning his opening two matches, Kouame became the youngest male player to reach the third round of a major since Rafael Nadal<\/a> at Wimbledon in 2003.<\/p>\n That is not bad company to be in.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Roland Garros: John McEnroe issues Novak Djokovic verdict after Jannik Sinner\u2019s shock exit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post \u2018That seems absurd\u2019 \u2013 Why Moise Kouame cannot receive his \u20ac200,000 French Open earnings<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andy Roddick has expressed his dismay that Moise Kouame seemingly cannot receive his French Open prize money despite his Grand Slam breakthrough. In a tournament where seeds in the men\u2019s draw have scattered like skittles in scorching Parisian temperatures, some remarkable stories have come to the fore. No more so than 17-year-old Kouame, who backed […]<\/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-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","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=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More French Open News<\/h2>\n