Novak Djokovic’s Skilled Tennis Gamers’ Affiliation (PTPA) created a storm lately, after it filed a lawsuit towards the world’s tennis governing our bodies (ATP, WTA, ITIA, ITF). Within the lawsuit, the Djokovic co-founded PTPA accused the organisations of making a cartel-like surroundings, which has led to inequality, lack of transparency and damaging affect on participant earnings.
Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, speaks at a information convention.(AP)
On Thursday, the Serbian appeared at a press convention for the Miami Open, and was instantly requested in regards to the PTPA lawsuit. To everybody’s shock, he claimed that he doesn’t agree with some issues within the lawsuit.
“This is a classic lawsuit, so lawyers to lawyers type of situations,” he mentioned.
“So to be quite frank with you, there are things that I agree with in the lawsuit and there are also things that I don’t agree with. I found that maybe some wording was quite strong in there. But I guess the legal team knows what they’re doing and what kind of terminology they’re supposed to use in order to get the right effect.”
PTPA has modified: Novak Djokovic
Djokovic co-founded the PTPA in 2020 and revealed that the organisation has modified since its inception. “It’s has grown into organization that has full time employees. I think it has around 30 people right now working day-to-day,” he defined.
Defending himself, he revealed that he doesn’t have any energy and affect over the physique’s working. “So they make a lot of different decisions and initiatives moving forward. And I am in an executive committee, but I’m not in power or influence, so I don’t have a veto over decisions or actions that they take,” he mentioned.
The lawsuit additionally surprisingly didn’t have Djokovic’s signature, contemplating that he has been a vocal critic of governing our bodies recently.
“In general, I felt like I don’t need to sign the letter because I want other players to step up. I’ve been very active in tennis politics,” he mentioned.
“I’ve tried to do my very best during my very active career when I was playing the most matches in my career and didn’t have so much time and energy. But nevertheless, I felt that it’s also my responsibility in my role to try to use the influence and the role to support players and to fight for their rights and it’s been almost 20 years that I’ve been on the tour.
“I’ve seen some changes, but you know there’s some fundamental changes there are still yet to be made and I really hope that all the governing bodies including PTPA will come together and solve these issues,” he added.
Even Carlos Alcaraz on Wednesday slammed the PTPA and revealed that he didn’t assist the lawsuit. Surprisingly Alcaraz has been cited within the lawsuit, the place they’ve used his quotes from a press convention.