Article by Oana Enemănescu – published on Friday, October 03, 2025, 12:58 / Updated on Friday, October 3, 20:10:10
Coco Gauff (US, 21 years old) has signed, along with the first 10 players and players in the professional circuit, a letter requesting higher winnings at the Great Slam tournaments, and explained the reasons for taking this public position.
The athletes at the forehead of the WTA and ATP rankings addressed the organizers of the SLAMM competitions, requesting improvements to several chapters. Gauff also put the signature on the paper whereby elite tennis players demand the reform of the system after which tennis operate at the level of the 4 annual competitions.
Gauff, currently number 3, after Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiak, detailed, at a press conference organized after the American passed by the German Eva Lys, 6-3, 6-4, in the quarterfinals at China Open, The reasons for joining the group of players who negotiate with the organizers of the most important tournaments of the world tennis, explaining what are the pressure points on which the athletes camp insists.
“From a personal perspective, if I look at the world of long -term tennis, it seems to me that our requests are very important. As we all know, the Grand Slam tournaments generate the most money: when you look at the percentage from the prizes, the discrepancy towards the ATP or WTA races is clearly observed.
This change is extremely important. People focus designers on money prizes, but we do not want these prizes to grow only for champions, but we want to increase for all participants, including players in qualifying rounds, ”Coco Gauff exposed the common cause.
Coco Gauff: “We want the prizes in the Grand Slam tournaments to grow including for the lower rounds of the competitions”
Gauff continued: “We want the organizers of Grand Slam tournaments to invest more in circuits globally, not just prize money, but to be actively involved in the welfare of all the players, so that their attention and finances reach those who are not at the top of ATP and WTA rankings. ”
The American player, a double winner winner of Grand Slam, claimed that players who occupy the 200-300 worldwide struggles, which does not happen in any sport, especially given the winnings in tennis.
The athlete also said that he is not so optimistic as to believe that these changes will occur throughout his career, but that he hopes that in a relatively close future all this will become a reality.
“However, I want to leave this sport more solid and healthier than when I got to play at the professional level. All top players have the same vision and I think it is for the first time we fight for the same long -term goal,” said Coco Gauff.
Along with Coco Gauff, among the signatories of the letter sent a week ago to the organizers of Grand Slam tournaments include Aryna Sabalenka, Iga świątek, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.
Among the requests in this document are: the opening of a social assistance and pension fund, improving the conditions for granting medical assistance and the advantages related to the maternity ward, increasing the proportional income prizes – from the current estimate of 16% to 22% to 2030, according to the common events of the ATP and the WTA, the WTA, Grand Slam.
