<sapn>W</span> ith a new labor deal, bright young stars and bold new leadership, the 2020 WNBA season seemed packed with promise. It was a similar refrain across women’s sports: Both the LPGA and WTA entered 2020 coming off a year with record purses and greater media and sponsor attention, and the NWSL had just named a new commissioner.
It doesn’t take account of all the investments we make in many things, the costs of delivering the Championships to the standard that we deliver it to -- which, of course, builds a value in our brand, which, particularly for the top-10 players, they’ll see the benefits of when you look at the kind of contracts that they will have personally. Our business model, really carefully balanced over 150 years, has delivered that value -- yes, to us, yes, to British tennis -- but also back to the players.-- All England Lawn Tennis Club CEO Sally Bolton, on how a source of frustration for AELTC leadership is the player group’s proposed revenue share structure as the mode of deciding the total prize money pool.
