Well, Djokovic and his close family are/have been pretty deeply involved in tournament organization, both ATP and non-ATP (Belgrade, Adria Tour), so that description is no longer very accurate.
ATP transparently doesn't want a rival tour/a tour split, so I think Djokovic's involvement in the PTPA unnerves them more than any player demands.
For similar reasons, ATP is probably wary of Fed (who has showed with the Laver Cup that he has the pockets and connections to operate tournaments outside the scope of the ATP). Right now it seems ATP is trying cater to Fed/is on amiable terms with him, but these things can change at the drop of a hat.
Perhaps our favourite Bart will start a GoFundMe for these struggling underrepresented Top 100 player-millonaires.
Cry us a river!
Your friends would not have respected the DC velvet ropes.
Your feelings of class resentment are on display. Interesting!
Pospisil has allowed us to see the 'class struggle' in action, comrade,
It has already been pointed out to you that the typical Top 100 player comes from the 98'th percentile of the socio-economic ladder.
Yet you continuously to characterize it as class warfare.
It cannot be class warfare when the two sides are from the same upper classes!
Players take the side of Popsicle.
I did not know. I got distracted by all the tweets I ended up reading there.What did he say? Too lazy to watch the video.
Even Goldman Sachs' junior bankers are claiming exploitation given that their hourly rate is less than a McDonalds' employee!
Isner cites the Bloomberg report that shows the sport of tennis accounts for only 1.3% of global TV and Media rights.
Tennis is vastly underperforming other sports with respect to TV viewership.
Indeed, this report aligns with our experience. We do not know of anyone who sits down and watches an entire 3 hour ATP tennis match. The rare exceptions are Slam matches and Slam finals featuring Big Three.
The TV revenue looks quite pathetic.
If there is no TV revenue, there is really not much to negotiate here. The sport needs to gain more viewers.
This will likely lead to gimmicks such as Slams switching to best of three to draw more viewers. Bart will be happy but it will infuriate the true tennis purists and hardcore fans.
1.3% of a one hundred billion dollars is 1.3 billion dollars. That's not chicken feed. So it all depends on the total value of the rights in circulation.
Tennis viewership first needs to go up. Then and only then can the negotiations proceed.
Get the TV ratings up!
This Popsicle dunderhead had no business bringing his feud with the ATP head onto the court. Just play your match.
Nobody on the court knows about nor cares about your difficult meeting. Truly bizarre behaviour.
One wonders if this was not intentional to draw attention to PTP as surely nobody could be this stupid?
A lot of support by the players for Pospisil, and little to none for Gaudenzi. Hardly surprising!
This statement fully confirms what I previously stated about how far the "intentions" of those that want a "change" go, and also indicates that those who are for that change have neither the ideas, nor they understand what they are asking.
The question is: where are the detailed goals and approaches by which the new "representation" of the players intends to achieve them?
Why is Pospisil "trying to unite the players" in an non-descript manner, undercover, with no clear objective and, in what appear to be, conflict of interest with the ATP?
Lastly, the statements of some of the players indicate that they have the mentality of children. "Big heart" and "good intentions" are not an excuse for doing stupid things, nor they help with making good decisions, so why is that a leading motive when outlining his actions on court. His actions on court should have been met with strong criticism, not with apologetic rhetoric.
Popsicle is supposed to be a player representative and negotiator. A diplomat.
Popsicle has made an inexcusable blunder by whining on the court of all places. Truly bizarre. Has disgraced himself and the sport and is now unfit to negotiate anything with the ATP Chairman.
Get somebody else with the proper temperament.
You have only confirmed your pre-existing prejudice. Isner's statement is rather detailed given its limits, but you can't expect a full plan from it.
The usual technique of people who want to hide their own prejudice is to to demand more detail than any given context allows.
Calling players children is the final confirmation that you are running on prejudice and ad hominem attack.
PTPA hasn't given any detail in any context ever, so your statements are simply more excuses in line with what we have already seen. Players are well advised to support something that has clear goals instead of going by emotions as their statements about Pospisil's big heart show. It really is very simple, for anyone who understand what a true desire for a change is.
Of course, all that has absolutely nothing to do with his on court behaviour, so those who come out with such statements are playing politics, when they are absolutely clueless about these matters. They even openly admit that their reserved demands for more money are such not because they care much about the situation, but because of how it would look to someone else. Amateur Central.
You just don't support the idea behind the PTPA. You have moved on from calling the players 'children' to calling them 'emotional'.
In other words, you made no progress.
I have stated multiple times over the years that ATP doesn't represent the player's interests well years and years before PTPA was even on the drawing board, and, as far as I can judge, PTPA is striving to just be another ATP, not what an organisation wanting to restructure the sport should be. It is a FAKE alternative .
I have written extensively about the draws rigging, the seeding system, the other preferential treatment for the top players - all in line with the fact that I don't think that the ATP is doing a good job. On the other hand, you have defended privileges for top players, just because their name is this or that, so you are fake too.
The PTPA is an association oriented to typical pay and condition demands. It's not another ATP and doesn't aspire to be an alternative. You are plainly wrong here.
Conditions would include some of the minor issues you raise, but it is overwhelmingly dedicated to better pay and conditions for all players and not just the top ones.
That is not true, and even if it was it leaves wide open the question who a tour with continuing distorted competition favours. The answer is always "those who made it to the top", which means the top 300-500 at best, so it is again the same story, but with the inclusion of a bit more players. That is not "the sport" and will not remedy anything other than to stuff a couple more bank accounts.
The "minor issues" are not minor at all. In some instances they are the very reason why the lower ranked players cannot benefit from the system as it is, and mostly they are just the symptoms of much bigger issues.
In short, the PTPA representatives have not demonstrated that they intend to be e true "players association". The tennis players are not only the top 300-400-500, and the severe lack of attraction to the sport of talent starts well below those rankings.
Now you want the PTPA to solve the problems of professional tennis tout court. Not possible!
I want an association of the tennis professionals to be an association of the tennis professionals, not for the selected few. It is that simple.
How many problems and to what extend they will be able to solve is a matter of work and circumstances, but at least it will be an honest work towards achieving what they were created for.
Fake organisations are not the answer. In fact, if I were a crook businessman, who wants to keep doing what he is doing with minimal hassle, and not be disturbed with real change, I would have thrown them a morsel, effectively buying their derrieres and shutting them down.
You're just talking nonsense. The Association is not going to solve the problems of the world. The only thing fake is your objection.
No one is talking about the problems of the world, and you have sold their "cause" for peanuts even before they started. Big business would love to have someone like you at the helm of the syndicates.
I don't know what is more opaque
1. The feud between the ATP and PTPA or
2. The discussion in this thread
So no simple explanation but keep adding more equations into an already unclear scenario. Great!Amazon drivers store their pee and poo in boxes because they are never given any time to visit proper facilities.
That's work in the twenty-first century if you don't resist! Hope that's cleared things up.
He said the president of ATP is an *******
So no simple explanation but keep adding more equations into an already unclear scenario. Great!
If you can't see its a question, then there is no point arguing over this. This is going nowhere. What is the purpose of PTPA and why they have a beef with ATP. Answer this. Just to let you know - this is a question not a statement. If you can't answer it, just say you don't know instead of coming up with amazon workers taking a dump in boxes.You have to make clear what you find opaque if you want a specific answer. Otherwise it's a statement and not a question.
If you can't see its a question, then there is no point arguing over this. This is going nowhere. What is the purpose of PTPA and why they have a beef with ATP. Answer this. Just to let you know - this is a question not a statement. If you can't answer it, just say you don't know instead of coming up with amazon workers taking a dump in boxes.
Oh oh — shots fired.
The ATP is not run by players. They merely have some sort of advisory input. The interests of tournament owners and players are opposed, obviously, and the owners have the power.
The PTPA is a professional association that is not in the business of running tennis tournaments. It's in the business of putting pressure on owners for the benefit of players.
The ATP refuses to engage with the PTPA so, hence, relations devolve into slanging matches of which Pospisil has made us all too aware.
And this guy makes a valid point which is that it never really puts out what PTPA aims to accomplish. He makes an extension that they are even more secretive than the ATP which I don't know but one might surmise that this is a possibility. He didn't quote you and neither did I but you were the one who replied back to both of us and maybe to most in this topic. And you disqualify him with this post and also called him an old man as your final say.PTPA set out to be the "transparent" counterpoint to the ATP, yet they are even more underground than the ATP.
LMAO
Yet another absurd comment.
They are guilty of pushing the tennis over the edge with their schemes to create privileges for the top players over everyone else, and they are not even hiding it, so they single-handedly ruined the competition in the sport and in the process made it less attractive for young people to compete or/and to succeed in it. A lot of damage was done, but the PTPA is not the organisation to tackle those problems. The way I see it, PTPA wants to replace ATP doing roughly the same thing, so it is not the real alternative. As I said, they are even shadier than the ATP.
I'm sorry gaudenzi is in no position to ask fedal to back him up. Fedal can light the laver cup and be more popular than miami open or whatever tournament. ATP is in some deep sheetOh oh — shots fired.
Now watch Gaudenzi & co drag and wake-up Federer and Nadal from their vacation to respond more favorably
Ok
Is there not a possibility that the player's affected by the treatment of the tennis organization's leadership? Professionalism is expected from every ATP tennis player on the court, but when unexpected happens some may not have a thick enough skin. Pro athletes' performances may be influenced by their private lives issues; hard to imagine how their ability to play the sport is hit given that those problems are with the organization they depend on so much.There is no logical connection other than the fact that he is angry at the ATP and this is an ATP event. And that the clash with the Head happened the day before and it is still annoying him.
Is there not a possibility that the player's affected by the treatment of the tennis organization's leadership?
The ATP does not recognise the PTPA. There is no negotiation and no need for either a negotiator or a diplomat. Pospisil has revealed a hidden dirty war. I thank him for that.