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Governing assemblage Tennis Australia (TA) has defended the magnitude of prize wealth connected connection astatine the Australian Open arsenic doubly Grand Slam champion Coco Gauff warned that players would rise the unit if their demands were not met.
The Australian Open hiked prize wealth to A$111.5 cardinal ($74.56 million) for the existent tournament, bringing it up of past year's French Open ($65.42 million) and Wimbledon ($71.60 million) but abbreviated of the U.S. Open's purse ($90 million).
The world's apical players wrote to the Grand Slams calling for important improvements successful prize wealth successful April past year, and a fig have expressed dissatisfaction with the concern astatine Melbourne Park in caller days.
Tournament manager Craig Tiley, however, said nary players had approached him with immoderate complaints astir the Australian Open.
"I've besides spoken to the players directly, not done 3rd agents, and they are precise blessed with the Australian Open," Tiley told the Australian Financial Review (AFR).
"Not 1 of them has shown immoderate dissatisfaction to maine astir what we are doing. And I’m not truly acrophobic with what’s said because I cognize the facts.
"As I said from the beginning, I judge the players should proceed to be paid much and much players paid more, we person 128 successful the main gully and 128 qualifying (men and women), so we are supporting implicit 500 players financially each Grand Slam."
The AFR reported that agents of the world's apical 10 men's and women's players had met successful Melbourne implicit the play and agreed to instrumentality further enactment seeking a bigger stock of the Australian Open revenue.
American satellite fig 3 Gauff told reporters connected Monday she had not heard factual plans for enactment over wage but said players would rise the unit if their demands went unmet.
"I consciousness similar that volition have to beryllium a corporate determination that we would each have to speech about," she said aft her 6-2 6-3 triumph successful the archetypal circular implicit Kamilla Rakhimova.
"I bash cognize players are going to enactment much unit connected the Slams if definite things aren't being met to where we spot it."
