The international tennisbonden need to come together to be the many of the players who are currently being financially harmed by the coronacrisis to support it. That is reported by the coach of Serena Williams in an open letter.

now, The tennis season is, since the beginning of march still, and it is unclear as to whether this will play out. All ATP and WTA tournaments have already been deleted, until mid-July. So a lot of the players, who are mostly dependent on matchpremies from the tournament, and without an income. According to Patrick Mouratoglou, the 49-year-old, the coach of Serena Williams, they need to be supported.

“In contrast to basketball or soccer players, the tennis players have no annual salary to fall back on,” he writes Mouratoglou on Twitter. “They are an independent contractspelers. They will have to pay for their own travel. They are paying fixed salaries to their coaches, when their own salaries depend on the number of matches they’ve won.”

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the top-ranked Players as Serena Williams or Novak Djokovic to earn millions, but they are the exceptions. According to Mouratoglou, the large group will be in that top layer, it is not always easy, especially in these difficult coronatijden, the bills have to do it right.

“It arouses me to the breast that has the number 100 in one of the most popular sports in the world, which is then followed by one billion fans out there, there is very little you can live.”

an international investigation into 2018 and it turned out that only 250 to 350 players earn enough to make ends meet.

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