“Feds should start investigating WTA finances at this point, because this sounds like a front for money laundering”: Fans outraged by the expenses the WTA will incur in building the stadium for the Finals.

Tennis fans reacted to the announcements regarding the WTA's investment in the construction of the 2023 WTA Finals stadium in Cancun, Mexico.

Since this year's edition of the WTA Finals is set to begin on October 29, construction of a new stadium in Cancun is currently underway, with an estimated investment of around $6 million.

Tournament director Gustavo Santoscoy revealed that the stadium is designed to accommodate 4,000 spectators, with two alternate practice courts available within the hotel for the players.

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He also disclosed that there would be a prize money pool of $9 million, with additional funds allocated for the construction costs of the new stadium, resulting in a total expenditure of approximately $15 million from the WTA's budget.

"It will be a stadium that can be assembled like in the past finals, it will be in the hotel zone on the land that the State government is providing us, at kilometer 15, in front of the hotels, it will be a main stadium for four thousand people and we have 2 alternate fields in the hotels where the players will be practicing," he said.

"There is a purse of nine million dollars, it is a considerable sum for a Finals tournament and the stadium investment is another 50 percent of that amount. So we are talking approximately 14 or 15 million dollars, which such an important event requires," he added.

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Tennis fans took to social media to react to the WTA's announcements regarding its budget and expenses for the Finals:

"It is genuinely a staggering miracle the WTA still exists at all with such horrific business sense and money wasted. How does the WTA board keep getting away with this without ANY accountability? It’s an embarrassment," a fan commented.

“$6 million construction costs for one-time event. With 4k people capacity. Not even a multi year investment. If true, Feds should start investigating wta finances at this point because this sounds like a front for money laundering,”

“Does the WTA have a Board their executive team has to answer to? Their business sense is staggeringly bad.”

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