The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has completed a stupendous job in the direction of the event of the game all over the world this yr, conducting 1135 skilled tournaments in 73 international locations, catering to about 10,600 gamers.
The ITF posted the main points on its web site, mentioning that the yr had 571 males’s and 564 ladies’s occasions.
Women gamers acquired 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 boys’s Challenger tournaments, organised by ATP.
The increased prize cash ITF tournaments for girls, starting from $40,000 to $125,000, had been 189, solely marginally lower than the 196 Challenger occasions of the yr for males.
The ITF solely conducts developmental occasions for women and men. The huge purse occasions for women and men are carried out by the ATP and WTA respectively.