October 16-19, it goes up against the indoor ATP 250 week. I read it is £1.2m appearance fee for each of the 6 players and then £4.8m additional for the winner (meaning £6m total for the winner ) and £12m total prize money.
Its the 5 best players taking part and then Rune?! Why Rune? Rublev, Fritz or Dimitrov maybe, or Ruud if you want a Viking marauder as one of your Kings! Or someone who has won a slam? Actually not sure who that would be?
Anyway, interesting to see how it plays out.
Draw is Djokovic v Medvedev or Sinner. And Nadal v Alcaraz or Rune. The seedings of Djoko and Nadal into the semis are clearly based on slams won or some such, not rankings.
These big money exhibitions have always been around. Recently things like the Mubudala in Abu Dhabi; going back to the 80s , Borg and McEnroe played series in South Africa, before that things like the Battle of the Sexes, the Las Vegas winner take all events with Connors and Laver or whoemever, the Pepsi Grand Slam in Boca in the late 70s, the Grand Slam Cup in Germany in the 90s, which had a $1m winners prize.
And many of them designed to gloss over politics , either nationally or sporting wise.
