Threats of a tennis boycott are back in the news as it has emerged that world No 1 Jannik Sinner and several other players are \u201cconsidering\u201d boycotting the US Open mixed doubles event over prize money and improved player welfare.<\/p>\n
Tension between players and Grand Slam organisers has increased in recent months with threats of a potential boycott emerging ahead of this year\u2019s French Open as the likes of Jannik Sinner, Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula and Taylor Fritz all made it clear they were ready to down tools.<\/p>\n
Although players didn\u2019t go through with those threats, they decided to limit their pre-Roland Garros press conferences<\/a> in an attempt to bring more attention to the matter.<\/p>\n But once the tournament progressed, the subject took a backseat with the focus on the tennis and there has been no talk of a boycott at Wimbledon<\/a> with the All England Club announcing a 20% increase in prize money for the grass-court Grand Slam.<\/p>\n Prize money for this year\u2019s tournament will be \u00a364.2 million<\/a> \u2013 a record \u00a310.7 million increase compared to last year \u2013 with this year\u2019s champion earning \u00a33.6 million while those who lose in the first round will go home with a guaranteed \u00a380,000.<\/p>\n Wimbledon\u2019s \u00a364.2m prize money boost won\u2019t silence players, warn finance experts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n ATP and WTA stars respond as Wimbledon\u2019s prize money increase falls short of their demands<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n But it still fell short of the \u00a371 million players are demanding as they want 22% of total revenue and players are now looking towards the season-ending Grand Slam in New York to up the ante.<\/p>\n According to The Times, players have discussed a possible boycott of the revamped US Open mixed doubles event later this year, with four-time Grand Slam winner Sinner among them.<\/p>\n The hard-court major introduced the new format competition in 2025 with the event taking place the week before the start of the singles draw as several big-name players entered the tournament.<\/p>\n The best singles players in the world usually avoid the mixed doubles tournaments, but Swiatek teamed up with Casper Ruud, Carlos Alcaraz partnered Emma Raducanu, Jessica Pegula and Jack Draper formed a team, Fritz and Elena Rybakina were partners, and Novak Djokovic and Olga Danilovic shared the court.<\/p>\n It certainly increased the profile of the mixed doubles tournament, but in the end, doubles specialists Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori successfully defended their title as they beat Swiatek and Ruud in the final to earn the $1 million first prize.<\/p>\n The United States Tennis Association will no doubt hope the star players will again sign up for this year\u2019s competition, but that is now under threat as players are ready to put more pressure on the four Grand Slams to increase prize money.<\/p>\n Sinner<\/a> is so far the only player who has been named, but there is no doubt that the list will include several other top stars.<\/p>\n The Italian, of course, didn\u2019t feature in the 2025 mixed doubles tournament as he withdrew at the last minute due to illness.<\/p>\n The post Jannik Sinner among several stars \u2018considering\u2019 US Open boycott over prize money<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Threats of a tennis boycott are back in the news as it has emerged that world No 1 Jannik Sinner and several other players are \u201cconsidering\u201d boycotting the US Open mixed doubles event over prize money and improved player welfare. Tension between players and Grand Slam organisers has increased in recent months with threats of […]<\/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-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","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=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tennis News<\/h2>\n