Iga Swiatek mentioned she hopes the governing physique of the ladies’s sport can do extra to spice up the tour in 2023 and additional cut back the pay hole which exists between the lads’s and girls’s excursions outdoors the game’s greatest tournaments.

Tennis has sought to be a frontrunner within the battle for equality within the final couple of many years with equal prize cash provided to women and men on the 4 Grand Slams.

WTA Tour occasions, nonetheless, nonetheless typically provide much less prize cash than these on the lads’s tour, which operates its personal circuit.

Our tennis brings the identical feelings as males’s tennis. There’s one thing yow will discover in ladies’s tennis that you simply’re not going to seek out on the ATP.

World No 1 Swiatek mentioned one of many prime priorities for the tour because it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary needs to be to make sure occasions are extra engaging for gamers, sponsors, organisers and followers.

“For certain, I would prefer to see the WTA increasing business-wise, getting extra common, reducing the distinction between WTA and ATP by way of prize cash and attracting followers,” Swiatek mentioned.

A report within the Monetary Occasions mentioned the lads’s ATP Tour as of halfway by way of final 12 months provided gamers 75 per cent extra prize cash in tournaments – excluding the Grand Slams – than the ladies’s tour.

“Our tennis brings the identical feelings as males’s tennis. There’s one thing yow will discover in ladies’s tennis that you simply’re not going to seek out on the ATP,” Swiatek mentioned.

“Proper now, after a few years of listening to we’re not constant, we’re really constant. There are prime gamers who’re taking part in nice in a lot of the tournaments.”

In a transfer anticipated to price the affiliation tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in broadcasting and sponsorship, the WTA suspended profitable tournaments in China over considerations for former doubles No 1 Peng Shuai.

She accused a senior Chinese language authorities official of sexual assault in a 2021 social media put up that was faraway from the nation’s web. She later denied making the accusation.

American Jessica Pegula, world No 3 and a member of the WTA participant council, echoed Swiatek’s feedback.

“I hope we will hold pushing for equal prize cash in any respect occasions, being on TV extra,” Pegula mentioned.

She pointed to the United Cup blended staff event earlier this season as a option to obtain that.

“We’re beginning to see slowly, extra of it, particularly with the United Cup, the response of everybody desirous to see women and men taking part in on the identical courtroom, on the identical staff, which was actually enjoyable for us. Folks like to see that.”