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!text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Carlos Alcaraz, Serena Williams, Alex Eala and Jannik Sinner                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><span>The US Open could face a player protest after tennis expert Jon Wertheim claimed there have been \u2018rumblings\u2019 that leading players may boycott the tournament\u2019s mixed doubles event amid the escalating dispute over prize money and revenue sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Players such as Jannik Sinner, Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka have been in dispute with the Grand Slams over prize money and revenue sharing since March 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a letter sent to the four events, the stars demanded greater prize money tied to tournament revenues, increased investment in player welfare initiatives and the creation of a Grand Slam player committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At this year\u2019s French Open, many players limited their media duties to just 15 minutes in a bid to send a powerful message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This was despite the event offering a total prize pot of \u20ac61.7 million, representing a 9.53% increase compared to 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Specifically, the players are demanding that the four Grand Slams agree to share 16% of their revenue as prize money, increasing to 22% by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to limiting their media duties, Sabalenka argued in May that she would be willing to boycott the four tournaments if their demands are not quickly met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think at some point we will boycott it, yeah,\u201d said the world No 1 at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI feel like that\u2019s going to be the only way to fight for our rights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>Latest Tennis News<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/atp-tour\/carlos-alcaraz-handed-huge-injury-boost-cincinnati-open-return-targeted\"><span>Carlos Alcaraz handed huge injury boost with Cincinnati Open return targeted<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/atp-champion-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner-doubles-together\">ATP doubles champion says what would happen if Carlos Alcaraz and Janik Sinner played doubles together<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>This year\u2019s edition of Wimbledon increased its total prize money to \u00a364.2 million, falling well short of the players\u2019 reported \u00a371 million demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite this, the players opted not to limit their media duties during the tournament due to the \u2018positive nature\u2019 of their talks with Wimbledon officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With the upcoming US Open on the horizon, attention now turns to the season\u2019s final Grand Slam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking on the <\/span><span>Served with Andy Roddick<\/span><span> podcast, Wertheim claimed that the American Grand Slam will not \u201creadily agree\u201d to the players\u2019 demands, suggesting that withdrawals from the mixed doubles event would not be \u2018fatal\u2019 for the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe US Open, USTA, they are not going to agree readily with any sort of revenue sharing model,\u201d analysed Wertheim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd yeah, the question is always, what these things is how much leverage do the players have? And there have been rumblings about mixed doubles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat I was told is that there are players who are happy to play, who are sort of on a wait list, who haven\u2019t been tapped yet, but if, Jannik Sinner is a name that\u2019s been thrown around, Aryna Sabalenka has been very vocal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf those players choose not to play in the mixed event as a form of protest, they\u2019ll still be okay to fill the field. Obviously, you\u2019d rather have the two current world number ones than not, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fatal to this mixed doubles event.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRemember, too, Serena Williams will be in the draw. Remember, Novak Djokovic too has kind of distanced himself from this group. So if you had Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic, and all of my downstairs neighbours, I suspect you\u2019d still be okay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut no, I mean, like any negotiation, leverage is part of this, and one thing I think we talked about this at Wimbledon. The players, you know, the media protest is what it is. I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s more of an annoyance than anything else. The tournaments would rather have better publicity, but it\u2019s not fatal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis expert makes US Open boycott claim as Grand Slam prize money row intensifies Oliver Paton 25 Jul 2026 5:25 PM Carlos Alcaraz, Serena Williams, Alex Eala and Jannik Sinner The US Open could face a player protest after tennis expert Jon Wertheim claimed there have been \u2018rumblings\u2019 that leading players may boycott the tournament\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-2061528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2061528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2061528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2061528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2061528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}