Indian Wells matches may be over, but the challenges of the tournament are far from gone. Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek took first place and won championships in their respective events. But in the middle of the celebrations, famed coach of Coco Gauff has raised a fresh worry. Brad Gilbert has advocated loudly for players to receive just recompense as he sheds light on the current debates in sports about player compensation and financial fairness.

In addition to discussing the equity of the prize money, he also brought up a point of comparison and even brought up golf in relation to this current incident, which created a 3.4 million difference between the two events from different sports.

Coach went on the course for court problem 

The 62-year-old American tennis coach, who witnessed the whole Indian Wells tournament then and there, recently took to his X account to share a controversial take regarding how the Indian Wells prize money has a lot of rising concerns to be taken care of. While Alcaraz got 1.1 million even after winning the tournament, he also brought a recent PGA tour to focus on the inequal money.

Coach Gilbert wrote, “The winner of players PGA event in Sawgrass was a 4 day event like all golf tournaments except liv is 3 days, the winner got 4.5 million the winner of IW got 1.1 million and it was a 2 week event, Golf every weekend is on network tv 📺 , tennis needs to figure this out asap.” 

Gilbert highlighted that the winner of the PGA event in Sawgrass received 4.5 million, and the Indian Wells champion received quite a bit less for getting through a two-week-long event.

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The 20-year-old tennis player’s coach had a clear question in his mind: what made tennis go down by nearly 3.4 million from a golf event? He also gave a review of the tournament and highlighted the parts that the sport needs to work on to reach the next level.

Gilbert’s brings up another Indian Wells concern 

Just a day ago, the tennis coach talked about how there is one point that tennis need to work on in comparison to golf: bringing more audience and connectivity to the game. In an interview with CNBC, Gilbert pointed out that other than the Grand Slam events, there are a lot of problems when it comes to the national coverage of the sport, whereas on the other hand, golf is blooming, and one of the reasons behind it is the coverage.

He stated, “The biggest difference between golf and tennis is every weekend, when there’s a major golf tournament, especially on the PGA Tour, it’s on network television.”

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