Last Updated: November 07, 2023, 02:00 IST
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This 12 months’s Billie Jean King Cup champions will obtain a document $2.4 million, with prize cash for the finals of the ladies’s workforce occasion once more matching that of the boys’s Davis Cup.
This 12 months’s Billie Jean King Cup champions will obtain a document $2.4 million, with prize cash for the finals of the ladies’s workforce occasion once more matching that of the boys’s Davis Cup.
A complete Player Prize Money purse of $9.6 million will likely be shared between the 12 competing nations in Seville, the International Tennis Federation mentioned in an announcement.
“We are proud to announce this news on the eve of the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup … Finals,” ITF president David Haggerty mentioned.
“Achieving gender parity in our sport is a key part of the ITF’s Advantage All programme and I am delighted we have been able to offer equivalent prize money with the Davis Cup Finals again this year.”
Action begins on Tuesday contained in the Estadio la Cartuja with holders Switzerland up in opposition to the Czech Republic in Group A.
Last 12 months’s runners-up Australia are additionally on court docket from day one as they tackle Slovenia in Group B.
The qualifying nations are break up into 4 teams of three groups with the group winners transferring into the semi-finals.
The remaining is on Sunday.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)
