{"id":4198,"date":"2026-04-01T12:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:45:40","slug":"top-players-reject-offer-to-have-greater-say-in-running-of-major-tennis-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/?p=4198","title":{"rendered":"Top players reject offer to have greater say in running of major tennis championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Grand slams proposed setting up a player council<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Australian Open not involved in the pay dispute<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tennis pay row has escalated further with the world\u2019s top 10 male and female players rejecting an offer from the grand slams to set up a player council that would give them a greater say in the running of the major championships.<\/p>\n<p>In correspondence sent to Wimbledon, the French Open and US Open last week, the players turned down the offer of a meeting with representatives of the three grand slams at the Indian Wells Masters in March and accused the tournament organisers of ignoring their concerns about pay and player welfare.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/02\/top-players-reject-offer-greater-say-running-major-tennis-championships\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand slams proposed setting up a player council Australian Open not involved in the pay dispute The tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegameinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}