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Marcel Granollers of Spain, bottom left, and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina play against Harri Heliovaara of Finland, top right, and Henry Patten of Britain, top left, during their men\u2019s doubles final match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Saturday, June 6, 2026. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus) CORRECTION: Corrects photographer\u2019s name: Thibault Camus instead of Aurelien Morissard. (Thibault Camus\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

LONDON \u2014 Doubles players fear for their tennis future after being told by the ATP Tour that prize money and tournament sizes will decrease significantly starting in 2028.<\/p>

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A group of leading doubles players issued a statement Friday saying they are not \u201ca carnival sideshow\u201d, and that it will be impossible for anyone outside the top 30 in the ATP doubles rankings to make a living if the new proposals are adopted.<\/p>\n

The statement comes after doubles players met with ATP officials at Wimbledon<\/a> this week to discuss the future of a format that is struggling to draw an audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ATP is proposing to slash doubles draws, gut doubles prize money, and hand Challenger entry to singles players ahead of specialists who have built their careers in this discipline,\u201d the players\u2019 statement said.<\/p>\n

They said the proposal would give doubles players just 10 percent of the prize money at ATP tournaments \u2014 down from 20 percent \u2014 while halving the size of the doubles fields.<\/p>\n

At the premier Masters tournaments, that would cut the doubles draw to 16 teams, while at the smaller ATP 500 and 250 events it would consist of just eight teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo the math on what that means for anyone outside the top 30: it will be impossible to make a living,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a minor adjustment. It is a plan to end doubles as a viable profession, dressed up as a cost-saving measure \u2014 and it is being pushed through with almost no transparency and almost no consultation with the players whose careers and livelihoods are on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about the statement, the ATP Tour said it was \u201cassessing the doubles product, draw sizes and player compensation distribution with the aim of creating a more sustainable long-term model while maintaining doubles\u2019 important role on the Tour.\u201d<\/p>

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It added that changing the doubles model could help increase early-round singles prize money, \u201chelping more players at the highest level to better meet the costs of competing on Tour and build sustainable professional careers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposal does not affect Grand Slam tournaments. At this year\u2019s Wimbledon, there are 64 doubles teams in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s draw and winning pairs split 760,000 pounds (about $1 million), compared to 3.6 million pounds ($4.8 million) for the singles champions.<\/p>\n

Doubles has always taken a back seat to singles tournaments when it comes to popularity and TV audiences, and the format has already faced several changes in recent years. In 2023, Wimbledon joined the other Grand Slam tournaments in shortening matches from five to three sets.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Open last year introduced a new mixed doubles format<\/a> that was played before the singles tournament started, in order to draw top names like Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Iga Swiatek and Naomi Osaka. That was criticized by traditional doubles players, however, as it largely excluded them in favor of attracting more famous singles specialists.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s doubles at Wimbledon received a boost with Serena and Venus Williams accepting a wild-card<\/a> entry. However, their participation was still in doubt after Serena tweaked her knee during her first-round singles match<\/a> in her first appearance at the All England Club in four years.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s players said part of the problem in attracting an audience was due to the ATP Tour\u2019s \u201clackluster marketing of doubles, failure to exploit broadcast and other commercial partnerships, and poor event staging and promotion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDoubles is not an afterthought we fell into,\u201d the players\u2019 statement said. \u201cIt has always been part of this sport\u2019s identity, not a discount version of it.\u201d<\/p>

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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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