Tennis Players Seek 15 Minutes of Fame (for Protest Purposes)

Players agitating for more money floated a plan to walk off stage; it might not have legs.

PARIS, France — I’d heard rumblings overnight that the group of top-10 players on both tours who have been advocating for a bigger share of revenue from the Grand Slam events—a movement on which they have the support of the tours, their agents, and various consultants—were planning to express their discontent through a familiar method: a boycott not of the actual French Open tournament itself, but of French Open press conferences.

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