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In professional tennis, players live well above a certain ranking, but in the lower parts of the leaderboard, their income comes practically from tournaments. Now, however, due to the coronavirus epidemic, there are no tournaments at all, leaving many players completely without revenue.
Players at the bottom of the leaderboard request financial support from the international federation.
Perhaps the three best-known figures in tennis today, Novak Djokovics, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, would help in this situation.
The idea is relatively simple: pay players who win well so they also have money for those at the bottom of the leaderboard.
His plan is to create a total fund of approximately $ 4 million (approximately 1.3 billion HUF). Djokovic is the president of the ATP Players Council, as he is currently the world leader, so he wrote a letter to the members about his idea, which Sports Illustrated took.
The International Tennis Federation has set aside a fund of approximately $ 1 million to help with the world ranking of 150-400. place among farm players, but the Djokovics say this is not a good help and it is not enough.
The tennis players calculated that those between 250 and 700 should receive help. This was justified by the fact that those who ranked higher than this were almost certain to have appeared in tournaments held earlier in the year, so all their earnings were true.
For players over 250, however, there is practically nothing. They would be supported beyond the base created by the ATP so that the Top100 players could enter with all the money.
In the next hand:
- Top50-100 – $ 5,000 per person
- Top20-50 – $ 10 thousand per person
- Top10-20 – $ 15 thousand per person
- Top5-10 – $ 20 thousand per person
- Top1-5 – $ 30 thousand per person
Also, the Top20 pair would enter with $ 5,000 per pair. That would add up to just over a million dollars. In addition, the organizers of the Big Four Grand Slams are expected to support the fund with an additional $ 500-500,000, so by the end of the year, approx. $ 4-4.5 million could join.
His plan is for every player who runs out of money to earn at least $ 10,000 in income that way.
Furthermore, along with Federer and Nadal, it was also suggested to the ATP that half the money for the London World Cup, which was driven later in the year and hopefully held, would be used to support players in need.
The letter concludes that I would like to support tennis players who start in pairs but get into trouble, but don’t know what the fair system would be, so they await the opinions of other players on this topic, as in the total increase anyway. .
So this is not a final deal yet, but its seriousness is well indicated by the fact that it has been put forth by the world’s most famous tennis players, plus Djokovic is a true committed advocate of aid.
Previously, through his foundation, he offered a million euros to his homeland, Serbia, to fight the epidemic.
The Serbian star tennis player will buy health equipment for Serbia with the money.
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