World’s top tennis players call truce in prize-money battle with grand slams

  • 18-month campaign comes to an end after US Open

  • Sinner and Sabalenka most vocal of leading players

The world’s leading tennis players have agreed a truce in their long-running battle with the grand slam tournaments over prize money, welfare and player consultation.

In a statement released after the men’s US Open final on Sunday the players announced they would stop their 18-month campaign of agitating against the grand slam tournaments, which culminated in a media boycott at the French Open this year, a plan first revealed in May.

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