All 100 top-ranked men and 99 of the top 100 women have entered to play the Australian Open in January. Tennis Australia chief executive Craig Tiley said in a statement on Saturday that the field for the tournament beginning Jan 19 was one of the “deepest and strongest” in the Grand Slam event’s history. Tiley said the only absentee from the women’s draw was No. 58 Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Republic, who withdrew due to a hip injury. Eight wild-card entrants will be added to both the men and women’s draws, along with 16 male and 12 female qualifiers. The New Year gives tennis players a tough and a thriller welcome in the form of Australian Open. It is regarded as one of the hardest and most important event in tennis after the Giant, WIMBLEDON. It gives ATP ranked players a chance to start of their new year in a sporty way. When the whole world will be chattering their teeth with January cold, Australian Open will be a heated event of South.
Coming towards the reward thing, I always felt the need of being a tennis player myself because of THE HUGE amount of money awarded to the winners. I still remember Russian charm, Maria Sharapova commenting on the difference, of award money given to the triumphed Man and Woman. Women players play as fair as man, so why the lesser money given to woman s finalist winner and runner up, and more with an edgy difference to men s finalist winner and runner up? Cha Cha hardly can comment. But I do have a money related news. Prize money on the men’s tennis tour will reach $100 million for the first time in 2015, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) said on Friday. ATP World Tour purses will then climb even higher, to $135 million by 2018, the ATP added in a news release. The figures do not include grand slam events, which are not run by the ATP. The biggest increases will be in the ATP Masters events, a series of nine tournaments which are next in terms of prestige to the four grand slams, with prize money rising 14 per cent annually through 2018. “The increases at ATP events are a testament to the sustained success of men’s professional tennis, as well as demonstrating the ATP’s confidence in the strength of its product and projected growth,” the ATP added. Well in the light of above money, reward, million etc. things. I must say that Bono from U2 must sing a new song and that should goes like “When Only Men Gets as much as HE sweats”. If you reward someone on how long they have played, okay that‘s fine. If you wanted to reward someone on the thing that someone is more followed and he is so handsome, okay no offense. In the end we can say “ All that glitters is not gold, but dollars in Men sport”.
