Recently, at least externally in professional tennis, there has been a call for players outside the absolute top to be able to reach for a larger part of the cake of huge sums with which the tournaments are subsidized. The gigantic prizes for winners of grand slams or Masters tournaments have absolutely nothing to do with the amounts that are collected in qualifiers or companies of lower categories than the ATP.
It is well known that if a player does not figure in the elite hundred, he mostly lives economically and even though he has a professional status, he pays financially for his career rather than earning money.
The most vocal supporter of the beginning or less successful ones was the world number one Novak Djokovic, until recently the president of the ATP players’ board. However, it was from this position that he resigned during this year’s US Open and founded the new PTPA (Professional Tennis Players Association), which was to have greater leverage on how to truly defend the interests of players and influence events.
A sharp clash of giants! Djokovic called on Federer and Nadal to cooperate, and they refused
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Portuguese tennis player Gastao Elias, who has now posted a leaked document on Twitter about alleged ATP plans for next season, which envisages a change in the distribution of money in tournaments for the benefit of those who get to to the final rounds.
“Prize money in qualifiers and first rounds will decrease slightly, while in the final rounds it will increase slightly,” the document says, adding that this is the wish of the players.
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Novak Djokovic called for a better evaluation of players from the lower levels of the ATP rankings.
Lisi Niesner, Reuters
“Thanks, ATP! I’m sure this is really the wish of the players. Which players do you mean by the way? “Wrote the Portuguese Gastao Elias, formerly the 56th player in the world, but who currently ranks 421nd in the rankings.
“And people are still surprised why Djokovic founded a new players’ association!” He added.
The topic was also caught by the Serbian daily Blic, according to which it is clear that Djokovic came across the board with his demands to increase the rewards for players from the lower floors of professional tennis. The paper also speculates that he got into a dispute with other greats Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal over the issue of money, who refused to join his new association.
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