Djokovic follows up Sinner-Swiatek doping public call-out with assault on ATP, questions wage construction of gamers
Novak Djokovic lately referred to 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.
Throughout a press convention on the Brisbane Worldwide, he stated, “We’ve got downside there.We’ve got an issue within the very – how can I say – construction of the ATP is that as gamers we solely have the 50% of that group. There’s all the time – not all the time however loads of occasions there was battle of curiosity between tournaments and gamers. We wished completely different factor. The pie break up between the governing our bodies in main sports activities, all main American sports activities, like NFL, NBA, baseball, NHL, is 50% possibly extra, some much less, however round 50%. Ours is method decrease than that. It’s true.”
Djokovic prior to now fashioned the Skilled Tennis Gamers’ Affiliation to deal with these issues. Throughout an earlier interview with a CBS program, he stated, “Ladies and men who’re round 200 and decrease ranked on this planet, they’re struggling rather a lot. They will’t afford a coach, they’ll’t afford travels, they skip tournaments, a lot of them depart tennis who’re tremendous proficient and possibly able to reaching nice heights and successes, however they simply can’t make it.”
Not too long ago when the Serb publicly referred to as out ITIA, he requested the physique why tennis gamers had been being handled in a different way in comparable doping incidents, and in addition hinted that Sinner, Swiatek might have had higher monetary backing and highly effective legal professionals.
Sinner’s doping controversy occurred throughout his victorious US Open 2024 title run. Every 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 as a consequence of 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 occurred in November, with the ITIA asserting that her pattern from August got here again optimistic as a consequence of unintentional contamination of melatonin tablets. She was provisionally suspended for 22 days after which served a one-month ban.
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