Novak Djokovic lately known as out ITIA over their investigation of Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek’s doping scandals. The Serb as soon as once more determined to make his emotions generally known as he took on the ATP for not offering higher situations for tennis gamers to earn as a lot as athletes from different sports activities.
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in motion.(AP)
Throughout a press convention on the Brisbane Worldwide, he mentioned, “We have problem there.We have a problem in the very – how can I say – structure of the ATP is that as players we only have the 50% of that organization. There’s always – not always but a lot of times there was conflict of interest between tournaments and players. We wanted different thing. The pie split between the governing bodies in major sports, all major American sports, like NFL, NBA, baseball, NHL, is 50% maybe more, some less, but around 50%. Ours is way lower than that. It is true.”
Djokovic previously fashioned the Skilled Tennis Gamers’ Affiliation to deal with these issues. Throughout an earlier interview with a CBS program, he mentioned, “Women and men who are around 200 and lower ranked in the world, they are struggling a lot. They can’t afford a coach, they can’t afford travels, they skip tournaments, many of them leave tennis who are super talented and maybe capable of reaching great heights and successes, but they just can’t make it.”
Not too long ago when the Serb publicly known as out ITIA, he requested the physique why tennis gamers had been being handled otherwise in related doping incidents, and in addition hinted that Sinner, Swiatek may have had higher monetary backing and highly effective attorneys.
Sinner’s doping controversy befell throughout his victorious US Open 2024 title run. Per week earlier than the Grand Slam, the ITIA revealed that the Italian had twice examined optimistic for clostebol in March. However then an impartial tribunal accepted his defence that it was resulting from unintentional contamination. Then in September, the WADA appealed the decision to CAS, which was accepted. The CAS verdict shall be handed this 12 months.
In the meantime, Swiatek’s doping scandal befell in November, with the ITIA asserting that her pattern from August got here again optimistic resulting from unintentional contamination of melatonin capsules. She was provisionally suspended for 22 days after which served a one-month ban.
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