The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has executed a stupendous job in the direction of the event of the game all over the world this 12 months, conducting 1135 skilled tournaments in 73 nations, catering to about 10,600 gamers.
The ITF posted the small print on its web site, mentioning that the 12 months had 571 males’s and 564 ladies’s events.
Women gamers bought a greater deal from ITF when it comes to prize cash, because the tournaments supplied about $17.5 million. The males performed for a complete prize purse of $11.2 million.
The ladies’s prize cash was increased because the ITF tried to match the lads’s Challenger tournaments, organised by ATP.
The increased prize cash ITF tournaments for ladies, starting from $40,000 to $125,000, have been 189, solely marginally lower than the 196 Challenger events of the 12 months for males.
The ITF solely conducts developmental events for women and men. The massive purse events for women and men are carried out by the ATP and WTA respectively.
