A WTA will offer the players up to 12 months of remunerated maxuality license for the first time, the women’s tennis circuit said on Thursday (6), part of a new and comprehensive beneficial of beneficial sponsored.
According to the plan, as players will have lit the ball for fertility treatment and other benefits. A WTA said this is a first time the maternity benefits are available for autonomous athletes.
“It can be a challenger to balance as physical and emotional demands of a professional career in tennis with how maternity and family life complexes,” said a WTA CEO, Portia Archer, in a statement.
“Some time ago, we have been exploring how we can earn our support for players to help them become mothers at the time of their school.”
WTA announced its partnership with a PIF for the first time last year.
More than 320 players are eligible for benefits, with criteria depending on competing in a “number of WTA tournaments in a time window.”
A representative of the WTA players, Victoria Azarenka, who gave birth in 2016 and lost nine months of competition in 2017 and 2018 due to a battle for custody with her son’s father, said he hopes to have
“This marks the beginning of a significant change in the way we support as women in tennis, making it easier for athletes to pursue their carrs and a family’s self -probation,” Azarenka told.
The announcement occurs amid a broader change in the global sports to support work with high -level athletes – from NFL players – asking for more benefactor in Alia.
