Wimbledon Chief Ritchie Calls for Tax Exemption for ATP Finals
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Tennis’s ATP World Tour Finals should be given a similar tax waiver in the U.K. as soccer’s Champions League, Wimbledon’s outgoing head said.
Ten-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal won’t be preparing for Wimbledon at the grass courts of Queens in London this year because a U.K. tax on earnings of foreign athletes and entertainers working in the country would make him “lose money,” the Spaniard said last year. Team sports such as soccer are exempt from the tax, just like athletes visiting the country for the 2012 Olympics.