目前世界男双第一的教练Calvin Betton 也出来讲话了 XCLUSIVE: ATP’s Radical Plan To Revamp Doubles Branded ‘Disgusting’ By Coach Of Tour’s No.1 Player 独家：ATP大刀阔斧改革双打计画，遭世界第一双打球员教练痛批「令人作呕」 https://reurl.cc/4lk6AD All eyes are on Wimbledon, but in the background there is yet another war brewin g and this time it involves the world’s best doubles players. 所有人的目光都聚焦在温布顿，不过幕後另一场风暴正在酝酿，而这次牵涉的是世界顶尖双 打球员 As it has been reported by media outlets such as Spazio Tennis and Bounces, the ATP wants to overhall the current doubles structure with a goal of doing so in 2 028. Their proposal, outlined in a meeting earlier this week, involves changing the prize money share between singles and doubles from 80-20 to 90-10. As a resu lt, the draw sizes will be reduced to 16 teams at Masters 1000s and to eight tea ms at other events. This will also have an inevitable impact on the ranking syst em. 根据《Spazio Tennis》与《Bounces》等媒体报导，ATP计画於2028年全面改革现行双打制 度，本周稍早会议中提出的方案，包括将单打与双打的奖金分配比例由80比20改为90比10， 因此ATP 1000大师赛双打签表将缩减至16组，其余赛事则缩减至8组，排名制度也势必受到 影响 Calvin Betton is a renowned British doubles coach who trains Henry Patten, the w orld No.1 in men’s doubles and two-time Grand Slam champion. He also coaches wo rld No.51 Luke Johnson, who lost his opening match at Wimbledon on Wednesday. Calvin Betton是英国知名双打教练，目前执教男子双打世界第一、两届大满贯冠军Henry P atten，同时也是世界排名第51的Luke Johnson的教练，Luke Johnson於周三在温布顿首轮 出局 As doubles face an uncertain future in men’s tennis, Betton spoke with Ubitenni s about the current situation in an extraordinary interview. 在男子双打面临前景未卜之际，Betton接受Ubitennis专访，深入谈论目前的情况 UBITENNIS: So the rumoured proposals for doubles are less prize money, reduced d raws and a small share of the prize money distribution. What is your reaction to this? UBITENNIS：目前传出的改革内容包括削减双打奖金、缩减签表，以及降低奖金分配比例， 你对此有何看法？ BETTON: I think it’s quite disgusting, to be honest, for numerous reasons. For starters, We’ve had no real indication as to what the motivation behind it is, who exactly benefits from it, other than a few singles players who are already t he richest in the world, which are the ones in the Top 70s or so. Therefore, I f ind it quite contemptuous. There are three major problems I have with it. Betton：老实说我觉得这件事令人作呕，原因有很多，首先我们完全不知道背後真正的动机 是什麽，也不知道到底谁会因此受益，除了那些本来就是全世界最富有、约排名前70名左右 的单打球员之外，所以我认为这种做法非常令人鄙视，我主要有三个很大的问题 One is that it’s been brought about by the ATP, the Association of Tennis Profe ssionals, who are supposed to represent tennis professionals, and it’s not the Association of Singles Players. 第一，这项提案是由ATP提出的，ATP代表的是所有职业网球选手，而不是单打球员协会 They’re supposed to represent doubles players as well. They’re actively trying to take livelihoods away from a load of tennis players here. I think that, in p articular, it is disgusting. 他们本来也应该代表双打球员，但现在却积极想夺走许多球员的生计，我认为这点尤其令人 作呕 At the same time, we keep hearing that not enough people make a living out of te nnis. Compared to all of the major sports, there are way fewer people who make a living out of tennis. If you take just the men’s side of the game, there’s on ly about, I’m going to say, 150 singles players who make a living, but it’s pr obably about 50 doubles players who make a living independently of anything like sponsorships. If we take this away, if this happens, we’re not adding any peop le who make a living; we’re taking away 50. 另一方面我们一直听到有人说，靠打网球维生的人太少了，与其他大型运动相比，真正能靠 网球维生的人数少得多，以男子网坛而言，大概只有150位单打球员能靠比赛维生，而双打 方面，大约只有50位球员能不依赖赞助收入独立生活，如果这项改革真的实施，我们不是增 加能维生的人，而是直接让这50人失去生计 Because you’re not creating any more single players who make a living, because this money would be going to the single players who already make a fortune. And I find that, again, I find it just a bizarre thing to do. 因为这些钱并不会帮助更多单打球员维生，而只是流向那些本来就赚很多钱的单打球员，我 真的觉得这种做法非常荒谬 The public is still going to pay the same amount of money for tickets. Yesterday I was in Wimbledon, on the outside courts from the third day, about 50% of the matches were doubles. Once you get into the fifth day, it’s around 80% of the m atches are doubles. The same in the Masters Series. If you lose these tennis mat ches on the court, people are still paying this money. 观众还是会花同样的票价进场，昨天我在温布顿，从第三天开始，外场大约有50%的比赛都 是双打；到了第五天，大约80%的比赛都是双打，ATP大师赛也是如此，如果把这些双打比赛 拿掉，观众却还是得付一样的票价 I find it utterly contemptuous of the fans and the paying public that these peop le are going to charge them the same amount of money, and offer them fewer produ cts and expect them to be happy with it (if the changes happen). 如果改革真的实施，他们向球迷收取相同票价，却提供更少的比赛内容，还期待球迷接受， 我认为这完全是在藐视球迷与付费观众 UBITENNIS: If this does happen, what will happen with the ranking system? UBITENNIS：如果改革真的实施，排名制度会变成怎样？ BETTON: There just wouldn’t be any doubles because there wouldn’t be any tourn aments for people to play. There will be probably be 20 doubles players at the m ost. Then nobody else would be able to break in because they are going to take t he draws down to eight teams, and hardly anybody is going to get in. The prefere nce is going to go to the singles ranking. There will be no doubles players, and I find that utterly bizarre Betton：到最後可能根本没有双打了，因为没有足够的赛事可打，真正的双打球员可能最多 只剩20人，其他人根本无法打进来，因为签表缩减到只有8组，几乎没有人有机会参赛，而 且参赛资格还会优先考量单打排名，最後将不再有真正的双打球员，我觉得这实在太荒谬了 They are saying things like the doubles players have got too good. So we need to get rid of them. The doubles specialists have got too good at what they do and that means the singles players are not winning enough doubles matches. 他们甚至说，双打球员实力太强了，所以要把他们淘汰，双打专家太擅长双打，因此单打球 员赢不了足够多的双打比赛 This happens in no other sport. 其他任何运动都不会发生这种事 UBITENNIS: One argument is the doubles is too expensive and needs to be more cos t-effective. UBITENNIS：有人认为双打成本太高，需要提高成本效益 BETTON: It’s nonsense. They keep saying that doubles doesn’t generate any reve nue. There is no way of determining that. What I do know is that if you’re goin g to sell grounds passes for tennis tournaments, after the first couple of days, most of the tennis is doubles on the outside courts. Betton：这根本是胡说八道，他们一直说双打没有创造收入，但根本没有任何方法可以证明 这件事，我知道的是，如果要贩售网球赛的场地通行票，前几天过後，外场大部分的比赛都 是双打 When they say doubles doesn’t sell tickets. There are two tennis players in the world that sell tickets – Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz. With all due respe ct to Ben Shelton, Alexander Zverev etc, no one buys tickets to watch those two. The public buys a ticket to watch tennis because they like tennis. 他们说双打卖不了票，但全世界真正能靠自己卖票的球员只有两位──Jannik Sinner和Car los Alcaraz，恕我直言不管是Ben Shelton、Alexander Zverev等球员，都没有多少人是专 程买票去看他们，大部分观众买票，是因为喜欢看网球 If you want to sell merchandise or food and drink, you have to have tennis on th e outside courts. people on Center court are just there to watch tennis. 如果你想卖周边商品、餐饮，就必须让外场持续有比赛可看，中央球场以外的观众，就是来 看网球的 UBITENNIS: It is a tricky situation. UBITENNIS：这确实是个棘手的局面 BETTON: The ATP has not only refused to promote doubles, they have prevented dou bles promoting their own product.They won’t let them use their own videos on In stagram because you can only use videos Tennis TV shows. About two years ago dou bles players asked the ATP to run their own doubles Instgram account and the ATP flat out refused to let them do that. They even said they would pay for it them selves and have a professional come in to run their social media account. They d idn’t ask for any money. Betton：ATP不只是拒绝推广双打，甚至阻止双打球员推广自己的赛事，他们不允许球员在I nstagram使用自己的比赛影片，只能使用Tennis TV提供的影片，大约两年前，双打球员曾 要求成立专属的双打Instagram帐号，但ATP直接拒绝，他们甚至表示愿意自行负担费用，聘 请专业人士经营社群，完全没有要求ATP出钱 UBITENNIS: But why would they do this, it doesn’t seem very logical? UBITENNIS：但他们为什麽要这麽做？看起来并不合理 BETTON: They want to get rid of it. All of this stuff about it doesn’t generate revenue is because they want to pay those singles players more money and that i s what I find particular disgusting. Betton：因为他们就是想消灭双打，所有「双打没有创造收入」这些说法，都是因为他们想 把更多钱分给单打球员，而这正是我最无法接受的地方 We were told yesterday in one of the meetings that the 70th best tennis player i n singles shouldn’t be earning less than the top doubles players. I don’t know why 70 is the reason but Jenson Brooksby is ranked 77th in the world. Going int o this week, he has won six tennis matches and earned $550,000. Are we saying th at this isn’t enough for somebody who has won six tennis matches in six months? This is just an example. 昨天会议中，有人表示单打世界排名第70名的球员，不应该赚得比顶尖双打球员少，我不知 道为什麽偏偏是第70名，但以Jenson Brooksby为例，他目前世界排名第77，本周之前六个 月只赢了6场比赛，就已经赚了55万美元，难道这样还不够吗？这只是其中一个例子 UBITENNIS: What about the future in doubles at Grand Slams such as Wimbledon? UBITENNIS：那像温布顿这样的大满贯赛事，双打未来会怎样？ BETTON: I think Grand Slam still wants doubles, they still want tennis on. I’m not as worried but you can’t just have doubles at Grand Slams because there wil l be no doubles players if the ATP gets rid of it. They are not going to play ju st four tournaments a year. Betton：我认为大满贯还是希望保留双打，也希望场上一直有比赛可看，所以我没有那麽担 心，但如果ATP真的把双打淘汰掉，到时候根本不会有双打球员存在，因为没有人只会一年 打四场大满贯 When people say doubles is unattainable, in what respect is it unstaintainable? If everything carries on as the same, what doesn’t sustain? To say something is unattainable it has to break down eventually. 当有人说双打制度无法永续时，到底是哪里无法永续？如果一切照现在这样运作，究竟是哪 个环节无法持续？如果真的说它无法维持，就必须指出它最终会在哪里崩溃 UBITENNIS: So what happens now? UBITENNIS：接下来会怎麽发展？ BETTON: The doubles players are discussing this and a statement will be coming o ut. They don’t want to make it singles players versus doubles players. They thi nk both can co-exits, which they can as they co-exist at the moment. Betton：双打球员目前正在讨论这件事，很快就会发表正式声明，他们并不希望演变成单打 球员对抗双打球员，他们认为两者可以共存，而事实上现在也一直都是如此 I think it probably has to go down a legal route with the ATP because they keep trying this kind of thing. Nobody knows what the motivation is. Who does this be nefit? 我认为最後可能必须透过法律途径与ATP交涉，因为他们一直试图推动这类改革，没有人知 道真正的动机到底是什麽，到底有谁会因此受益？ It’s doesn’t benefit the fans and that should be who we are looking at. 这对球迷毫无好处，而球迷才应该是我们最优先考量的对象 They want to take the prize money between singles and doubles from 80-20 to 90-1 0 with the extra 10 going towards thefirst round of the Masters. 他们想把单打与双打的奖金分配比例从80比20改成90比10，而多出来的10%将分配给ATP大师 赛首轮出局的单打球员 You’re doing to get rid of the livelihood of a load of tennis players to give e xtra money to somebody who loses in the first round of a Masters. 你等於是牺牲大量职业球员的生计，只为了让那些在ATP大师赛首轮就被淘汰的人多拿一些 钱 I think there is an ulterior motive and some people just don’t like doubles. Th ere are certain singles players who are already multi-millionaires that are comp laining that the slams aren’t giving them enough money. They argue about revenu e share and when you put it into a percentage they get some sympathy. But they n ever put it into an actual number. 我认为这背後另有目的，有些人就是不喜欢双打，有些身价早已数百万美元的单打球员，仍 抱怨大满贯给的奖金不够，他们总是用「收入分配比例」来讨论，因此容易获得同情，但他 们从来不把实际拿到的金额说出来 Editor’s note: This interview outlines the views of Betton and others may have a different perspective. The ATP have increased their financial support to playe rs in recent years through its ‘One Vision’ initiative, which has resulted in prize money increases across all levels of the Tour. In 2025, a record 88 player s earned more than $1M in prize money. During this same season, the Masters 1000 profit-sharing model delivered $18.3 million to 186 players. 编者按：本次专访内容反映的是Betton个人的观点，其他人士可能持不同看法，ATP近年透 过「One Vision」计画持续增加对球员的财务支持，使巡回赛各层级奖金皆有所提升，2025 年共有创纪录的88位球员单季奖金突破100万美元；同一赛季，ATP Masters 1000利润分配 制度共向186位球员发放1830万美元 --

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