The Ukrainian tennis player posted a message on her networks with the monetary incentives of the ATP in Halle and the WTA in Berlin, two events of the same category but with totally different bags of money.
Once again, the question of the monetary differences that exist in the world of tennis arises. It’s not new news that women tennis players earn much less than men, but it doesn’t stop bothering. This time it was the Ukrainian player, Marta Kostyuk who used social networks to show this inequality.
The 19-year-old tennis player, who is making a name for herself on the circuit this season, published photos of the Halle ATP 2022 and Berlin WTA 2021 prize money to demonstrate the huge difference in the bag of money from the two German events, despite the fact that itBoth are 500 class.
While the winner of Halle will receive 399 thousand euros (357 million pesos), Liudmila Samsonova paid 55 thousand (50 million pesos) for beating Bencic in the 2021 final . Although prices in Berlin have risen to 93,000 euros (85 million) this year, the difference between the two is still huge. While the contest that takes place at the Gerry Weber Stadion more than 2 million euros are distributed, in the German capital this figure reaches 757 thousand of European currency.
The social media post showed the comparison of the two events with the money received for each phase (the champion in Berlin receives something similar to the tennis players who reach the quarter-finals in Halle), along with a text who said “Are we really that bad? .
The tweet quickly went viral and brought back to the fore an issue that has always been controversial in the world of tennis: the earnings of men and women.
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