"Los premios millonarios de los Grand Slams: desentrañando la compleja economía del tenis" - The Athletic

Cuatro veces al año, uno de los torneos de tenis más grandes e importantes del mundo envía un comunicado repleto de signos de dólar y ceros, en el que se destacan generosamente las palabras "premio récord".

The four Grand Slams, the first of which begins Sunday in Melbourne, are the high points of the tennis calendar. Players at the 2025 Australian Open will compete for $59million (£47m) this year — over $6.2m more than last year. In 2024, the four tournaments paid out over $250m between them, while their leaders spent the year aligning themselves with the players who make their events unmissable, whose gravity pulls in the broadcast deals and sponsorships, with their own dollar signs and zeroes.

Led by Australian Open chief Craig Tiley, the Grand Slams led the movement for a so-called premium tour which would pare down the overloaded tennis calendar and guarantee top players always being in the same events, let alone time zones. It would also lock swaths of the globe out of the worldwide spectacle that tennis represents.