{"id":1963,"date":"2026-10-21T19:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/2026\/10\/21\/equality-on-the-court-why-equal-prize-money-matters-in-tennis\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T19:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:24:53","slug":"equality-on-the-court-why-equal-prize-money-matters-in-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/2026\/10\/21\/equality-on-the-court-why-equal-prize-money-matters-in-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality on the Court: Why Equal Prize Money Matters in Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professional tennis bodies announce equalized prize funds for upcoming major tournaments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent announcement by tennis authorities to equalise prize funds at upcoming majors marks a milestone, but the real test lies in translating this parity into lasting change for the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}