LONDON: Nour El Sherbini was six-years-old when she first followed her brother onto a squash court in Alexandria, Egypt, and she was competing in tournaments at the age of eight.
El Sherbini, 24, was awarded US$60,800 from a pot of US$430,000. The men’s champion will earn US$45,600 out of a purse of US$335,000 at their equivalent tournament in Qatar later this month.“We have to be proud that we are doing this,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview.“Hopefully other sports can see exactly what we can see in squash and do the same.”
But the equity between winnings for men and women’s squash players contrasts to many other world sports in which women receive a fraction of that earned by their male counterparts.
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