The Serbian Novak Djokovic He was for a long time in the ATP players Council, even occupying the presidency. Dis disagreement with the policy of the Association of Professional Tennivers (ATP), which governs the male professional circuit, promoted the birth of a union outside the official range, the Association of Professional Tennis Players (PTPA).
Combative defending his ideas, which not rarely faced the Swiss Roger Federer and to Spanish Rafa Nadalwho preferred to defend their approaches within ATP, at 38 Novak Djokovic faces each topic even with more forcefulness. He is in the final stretch of his career, his record supports him, the best in the history of tennis.
In it Masters 1000 ATP de Shanghai He landed by distributing poles to all for his lack of initiative in defense of the interests of racket professionals. Days ago the Polish Iga Swiatek He loaded hard against the calendar, putting the emphasis on growing the number of tournaments that the best ranking must dispute.
His American colleague was pointed to the speech Coco Gauffalso in the WTA 1000 of Beijing, but made much more noise Carlos Alcarazwhich aligned with Swiatek. His criticisms were resounding, from his position as World 1, having at his side the ATP 500 champion trophy of Tokyo.
Mentioned Alcaraz, Swiatek and GauffDjokovic hit his beloved Carlos in particular his classmates in general. He shook the world of tennis with his firmness, although his speech was not new. Nor the subject in question.
“Those who know me, know my press conferences and my time in the Council of Players, know that more than 15 years ago I was already talking about the need and reorganizing the calendar. I went from those who did not support the idea of extending the days of Masters 1000, since it was to remove days from the calendar,” he said ‘No’.
And he threw a dart with particular destination to Alcaraz for being the one who had spoken, but he went to many others too. It meant that “some players say that there are rules imposed, etc.. But there are rules imposed to win an economical bonus. So you can lose the bonus, if you are willing to play less. There are also exhibitions to which the players register, so it is a bit contradictory everything,” said the Serbian.
Alcaraz will receive an economic award for fulfilling the ATP 500 category tournament commitments, even more juicy to be the one who has won the most points in these competitions. And will dispute the exhibition Six Kings Slamin Riad, this month, but as also Novak Djokovic and Italian Jannik Sinnerwho unmarked from Murcian’s complaints Noting that, in the end, it is each player who decides where to play.
“Players are not united”
“The players are not united enough. And they do not participate enough when they should. So they comment, complain and then leave. And if something goes wrong, after a certain time they come back,” Djokovic criticized, claiming more implication.
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He pointed out that “for going out in the media and talking about this and the other can awaken something, but nothing is changed. I know from personal experience. You need the best players to feel, get down to work and worry a little more.”
