The fifth world tennis player Elina Svitolinová from Ukraine admitted that she sometimes has problems with motivation due to the reduction of tournament prizes due to the coronavirus pandemic. She acknowledges that everyone must adapt to the current situation, but has not ruled out that she will omit some smaller tournaments in order to save for the big ones with a higher subsidy.
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“I don’t think it’s really easy for some players to get used to it. For me too, because we’re a little spoiled from the years when subsidies were really high,” Svitolin told AFP at a tournament in Dubai this week. ones.
“Right now, it will definitely start to bother you when you know that in some tournaments you are not so motivated, because the prize money is much lower there. If you play a smaller tournament and then you are tired of the big one, you better skip the little one. the situation will gradually improve and we will return to where we were, “said the winner of 15 WTA tournaments, who earned almost $ 20 million from tennis.
Krejčíková outclassed the Grand Slam champion, and the injured Kvitová gave up the match
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In Dubai, tennis players are playing for $ 1.8 million this year, compared to a million dollars a year ago.
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