Novak Djokovic wants tennis to learn from the NBA and the NFL.
Before the Australian OpenThe Serbian labeled the money price of tennis a problem and called the authorities to learn from American sports.
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The Grand Chelem champion 24 times himself was a huge benefactor of the tennis prize, winning $ 185 million in his 22 -year -old career.
With 99 career titles, the richest year of Djokovic in tennis occurred in 2015 when the Serb won 11 trophies and accumulated $ 18.2 million in single price.
Despite these enormous sums offered for the best sports players, the income divided between the tournaments and the players are well below other sports such as the NFL and Nba.
The best NBA and NFL athletes can earn a lot more than a secure salary compared to tennis players who have no guaranteed sports income.
“It’s a fact”, Djokovic said in his Brisbane press conference Last week, when asked if wage gaps exist in tennis.
“And what Nick (Kyrgios) says is true. If you look at the percentage that players derive from global income from sport, it is much lower than most other world sports, especially Americans like the NBA, In the NHL and nfl. “”
The former world n ° 1 continued to highlight the complexities in the guarantee of more money for tennis players with separate entities in tennis and no director to keep them all responsible for players without power.
“Players don’t really have power on the major subject,” he said.
“The system often creates conflicts of interest between players and tournaments, where players recommend an increase in currency prices while tournaments are resisting these requests.”
Consequently, with so many bodies involved, Djokovic admitted: “It is difficult to bring everyone into the same room and agree with the percentage of money which should go to professionals”.
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“We want more money, they may not want to give us so much money when we talk about the price.”
One way in which the Grand Chelem champion tried to solve the problem was to found the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) in 2020.
The objective during the organization of the organization in 2020 was to “target a more equitable distribution of income and well-being” in sport.
“We are talking so much about the amount of money We open The winners do, but we are not talking about the number of players, men and women, single, double, all together, professionals live this sport, “said Djokovic in 2023.
Kyrgioswho joined forces with the Serbian in Brisbane, also spoke of the question in a press Conference, labeling the share of income received by players as a joke.
“The visit is ridiculous compared to any other sport,” said the Australian.
“It is absurd, really, the quantity of trips we make, since we are not even paid what we are supposed to be paid, which is a joke.
The Australian Open, which starts this Sunday, grants $ 2.17 million to their male and female winner with a player who lost in the first round, obtaining $ 82,000.
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