Mumbai, March 25 -- Taking tennis' governing bodies to court was "not our first choice" but one that eventually "we felt like, and players felt like, was the only choice" to "reform tennis from within", Ahmad Nassar, executive director of the Novak Djokovic co-founded Professional Tennis Players' Association (PTPA), told HT in an interview.
Last Tuesday, the PTPA filed a lawsuit against the men's (ATP) and women's (WTA) tours, along with the ITF and ITIA, over the way professional tennis is run. It shook the tennis world and elicited varied views from top players.
Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek distanced themselves from it; world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff acknowledged the issue of higher revenue percentage from prize money for p...