'Life not fair for everyone' – Nadal on prize money for low ranked players
Lower-ranked players have been asking for early rounds prize money in the most important tennis tournaments to increase for a long time, and some huge progress has been made. The world No. 2 , who earned $103 million career prize money tournaments so far, said: The sport is not fair for everyone, and the real thing is the life is not fair for everyone.
Thats the real thing. Its difficult to fix this at all, but at some point, in my opinion, from the players side, at some point we created jobs on our sport in the last 10 years, thats my feeling, and thats the great news.
The sport is not only bigger if the top guys win a lot of money. Is bigger if more people live from the sport too. My feeling is thats happening more today than ten years ago. Thats good news, and tournaments understand that its important to pay more in the first rounds, in the qualifiers, and the lower tournaments are growing, too.
So the tour in general terms I think is improving, and being honest. Countries like this one and Tennis Australia by itself helps a lot to make that happen. ALSO READ: Djokovic would beat Roger Federer in Australian Open final – Evert
