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17 Tour News Next month’s qualifying competition for the US Open will see a number of innovations as organisers experiment with scoreboard clocks to reduce time violations between points. The event will also see players allowed to communicate with coaches from the stands during the match. Garbiñe Muguruza and Roger Federer have been crowned 2017 Wimbledon champions. The Spanish number 1 player will move back up into the top fi ve, while Federer yet again rewrites history to claim his nineteenth Grand Slam singles title. Karolina Pliskova will be number 1 after a steady and consistent year, despite her early loss at Wimbledon. By virtue of Kerber’s capitulation to Muguruza and Halep’s demise to Konta after being two points away- from claiming the top spot herself, Pliskova will becomethe 23rd women’s world number one, and the fi rst ever female Czech national to do so. US Open compensation tops $50 million The USTA today announced that the prize money for the 2017 US Open will increase by more than $4 million, bringing the total purse for the tournament to a record $50.4 million, a 9 percent increase over the 2016 US Open prize money totals. With those increases, the US Open becomes the fi rst tennis tournament in history with total prize money compensation topping $50 million. Once again, the tournament will provide the richest purse in tennis history. Both the men’s and women’s singles champions will earn $3.7 million, the largest payout in US Open history . The average increase per round for the singles competition is 7.5 percent above the 2016 US Open. Similar to the past two years, the largest percentage gains by round are in the fi rst and second rounds of the tournament. Both the men’s and women’s doubles champion teams will earn $675,000, the highest in US Open history, and overall doubles prize money has been increased by 8.6 percent. The US Open Qualifying Tournament will off er more than $2.9 million in prize money, an unprecedented 49.2 percent increase over 2016. This year’s US Open is scheduled for August 28 through September 10, with the US Open Quali- fying Tournament beginning on August 22. The USTA is continuing its transformation of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center with a new Louis Armstrong Stadium in 2018. ENTDECKE DIE WELT DER WE MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Die Int. Plattform für alle Trainer und Coaches die professionell unterrichten INFO: PTR European Headquarters Leichtergasse 28 - 39012 MERAN Fon: [phone] - www.ptrtennis.de - [email protected]