The American took to social media to vent his frustration saying it doesn’t make sense.
John Isner took to twitter today after hearing the news that the Miami Open will be cutting its prize money down with the singles champion only taking $300,110 with a first round loser only winning $10,000 in prize money.
Isner and many other players on tour believe the tournament should be forced to due an audit to truly reveal what their finances are and to see if they are hiding anything.
“How about a true audit to see how much tourneys are actually hurting and then a money formula after the event to reconcile?”
“Amazing we still don’t have this in a lot of our big events. How does that make any sense?”
He also tweeted about the promoters saying the system the ATP uses is broken.
The American also spoke of the unfairness in the cuts the players are taking in comparison to the actual events.
“So players should take a 60% cut and 80% champions cut while ATP executives keep full salaries, benefits, and expense accounts? Make that make sense. Seems just a little bit hypocritical, don’t ya think?”.
Isner finally believes the players should benefit from the tournament not just in the short term but over a long tenure.
““Tennis is plagued by conflict and lack of transparency”
The tournament is scheduled for March 23rd at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami and the tournament has confirmed they won’t be doing a quarantine like the Australian Open.
The players will need to provide a negative PCR test to board a flight to the US and once they land they will be tested once again and isolate until a negative result is shown.
The players will only be allowed at the hotel and the venue and any player who doesn’t respect the rules will be subject to penalties and be withdrawn from the tournament.
