Sharing is caring: Federer wants better prize money distribution
NEW YORK: Roger Federer added his voice to growing calls for increased prize money for players"in the lower ranks" after battling into the third round of the US Open on Wednesday .
"So I think if there should be increases it shouldn't be at the top anymore. I feel like we have reached a pretty good level there. So, yeah, I think that's going to be what we're going to fight for." "It would be nice if the players could also survive on the challenger tour in the lower ranks and not just at the very top," Federer said."Even though I'm all for it shouldn't be a losers' tour, but they also sacrifice a lot of their time and they work equally hard as we do at the top. That hopefully we're going to get that right hopefully, as well, in the next sort of five to 10 years.
Former player Gimelstob, who has sat on the player council, pleaded no contest to assault charges in Los Angeles earlier this year for attacking a man in front of his wife and children at Halloween in 2018."The worst is in any politics or any tennis politics is if you just don't talk," said Federer, after rallying to dispatch 99th-ranked Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 under the roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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