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Madrid Open owner hints at ending equal pay
- Updated: May 10, 2016
1:20 PM ET
Madrid Open owner Ion Tiriac has indicated his tournament may move away from equal pay for men and women.
The debate was reignited in March by controversial comments from Indian Wells tournament director Raymond Moore about women players “riding on the coat-tails” of the men.
Moore subsequently resigned but the issue has continued to bubble under the surface. Madrid and Indian Wells are two of three major tournaments outside the grand slams along with Miami that pay equal prize money.
Tiriac, a flamboyant Romanian and former top 10 player, threatened Moore-like controversy by referencing the length of female players’ legs but insisted it was about economics.
He told The New York Times: “I like, very much more, women than men. All my life, I’ve done that. The longer the …
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