‘We need to have to stimulate the tournaments to keep growing’ – Rafael Nadal welcomes Masters 1000s reforms

Rafael Nadal welcomed the proposed reforms to the ATP Masters 1000 functions, to generate far more high-profile match-ups between the world’s prime players across the year.

From 2023, the ATP Tour calendar will allow for the Masters 1000s in Madrid, Rome and Shanghai to grow to be 12-working day situations along with Indian Wells and Miami. It is also staying described that gatherings in Canada and Cincinnati are set to adhere to in 2025.

“Sometimes from my personalized perspective it is Grand Slams and the rest of the tournaments a great deal reduced, so I assume our aim from becoming the ATP is to set our tournaments nearer and closer to the Slams in conditions of advertising and relevance. We need to really encourage the tournaments to retain rising.”

“It is also crucial to encourage the premium solution,” Gaudenzi included. “Fans want to see the best players enjoying in the major occasions in the planet.”

These tournaments reforms come below ‘OneVision,’ the Tour’s overarching program to increase prize revenue and boost financial transparency in the yrs to arrive.

The pair welcomed the strategy of match organisers and gamers operating much more closely together to far more interest in the sport.

“Let’s get the job done jointly to improve our sport, instead of battling with every other all the time,” Gaudenzi reported.

“Because the competitiveness is soccer, soccer, American soccer, golf, not competing versus every single other.”

“Oh, I concur with that,” Nadal replied. “I feel we shed a whole lot of energy battling between every single other tournaments are preventing for them selves and gamers are combating for ourselves.”

Phase a single of OneVision will include a prolonged-expression prize money settlement and a radical 50-50 earnings-sharing system, which is previously in area at the Masters 1000s. The purpose is to enable players to share in the financial achievements of tournaments.

The foundation prize income at ATP Masters 1000 level will also boost by a lot more than $15million by 2025. In the meantime, there will be reforms to the fixed bonus pool, which now covers the top 30 gamers – escalating from the top 12.

Additionally, a variable reward pool will be launched that is linked to revenue sharing, and can provide economic aid to extra than 140 players.

“I think it can be video game-modifying for the partnership and rely on between players and tournaments simply because we want to deliver the visibility to the players on the economics of the tournaments and also have players share our upcoming success,” Gaudenzi additional.

“If the tournaments do effectively financially, the players will get 50 per cent of the revenue on prime of the prize cash.”

Section two of the undertaking, which has launched in collaboration, with the WTA, ITF and the four Grand Slams, will focus on enhanced governance of the sport and on increasing the admirer working experience.