The World No.1 tennis player Novak Djokovic and former top-30 player Vasek Pospisil have announced the formation of Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA).
- The new group represent the interests of male players (top-500 in singles and top-200 in doubles).
- The body is outside the structure of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the principal organisation responsible for the men’s Tour and tasked with protecting player interests.
- Djokovic and Pospisil listed revenue sharing, disciplinary actions, pensions and amenities at tournaments as the issues the players-only body would address.
- The most significant of these is the long-standing call for tournaments to commit a greater percentage of revenue as prize money.
- For example, according to a New York Times report, the 2018 US Open payout of $57.24 million was just about 14% of the tournament revenue, a figure the players thought as too low in comparison with other professional sports like basketball and American football.
(Source: The Hindu)
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