{"id":13598,"date":"2014-04-15T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=13598"},"modified":"2014-04-15T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:28:21","slug":"french-open-roland-garros-prize-money-gets-2-5m-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=13598","title":{"rendered":"French Open &#8211; Roland Garros prize money gets \u00a32.5m boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French Open prize money pool has risen to \u20ac25 million (\u00a320m) after the French Tennis Federation announced a cash boost.<\/p>\n<p>The FFT added that the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s champions would benefit from a 10 percent rise in earnings, each banking \u00a31.4 million euros for winning the singles titles in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This noticeable progression of the Roland Garros prize money is part of the four-year plan for the 2013-16 period,&#8221; tournament director and FFT general director Gilbert Ysern said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Wimbledon had a total prize pool of \u00a318.5m, while the US Open had a \u00a320 m purse.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Australian Open prize money pool was $19.5m.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Eurosports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Open prize money pool has risen to \u20ac25 million (\u00a320m) after the French Tennis Federation announced a cash boost. The FFT added that the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s champions would benefit from a 10 percent rise in earnings, each banking \u00a31.4 million euros for winning the singles titles in Paris. &#8220;This noticeable progression of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,31],"class_list":["post-13598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news","tag-professor-adei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}