But Kyrgios’s fellow Australian Todd Woodbridge, ten times a doubles champion at Wimbledon, gave a scathing verdict to Channel Nine. Nick Kyrgios – who has regularly attacked Djokovic throughout lockdown for his apparently offhand attitude towards Covid-19 – was silent on the new organisation on Sunday.
Yet with around 200 male players in the New York bubble, the turnout was well short of a majority.ĭjokovic has identified some important grievances in his campaign to improve players’ pay and benefits – notably the fact that the grand slams are only forwarding around 16 per cent of their gross revenues to the performers.īut the timing of the PTPA’s launch, at a moment when the established structures of tennis are striving to reboot the season, has been slated by many – including absent figureheads Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. These were the PTPA’s initial signatories. Vasek Pospisil, the Canadian player who is Djokovic’s right-hand man, posted a photograph on Sunday that showed 64 players – most clad in masks and observing social distancing – posing for the camera on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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But the prospects for his latest political project – the breakaway known as the Professional Tennis Player Association – look considerably less rosy. World No 1 Novak Djokovic will start tomorrow’s US Open as the odds-on favourite to lift the title.
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