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We head towards the end of the business on the fifth biggest occasion of the year. However, most of his questions and talks revolved around ATP paint problems. They exploded last week when, well, it happened. I am surprised by the fact that this discussion encompasses much more than industrial relations. It is a referfinishum on total sport: the fate of tennis after the big three; The feasibility of the male/female combo; Conflicts of interest who has price and how much; Are we going to chances to see stars or because we love tournaments?So here are some scattered points, looking to incorporate as many questions as possible.
(1) The fact that independent contractors cannot, as a general rule, unionize is the cause. Most athletes are hired through groups or leagues and have formed unions, which are quite powerful/competent. Everything from wages, about 50% of the gross amount. The source of revenue from league-to-field policies is negotiated. Not if, in tennis. Players act as independent entities, not bad at all. No one tells them when to exercise or play. You may miss the occasions when home damage is caused, which is quite reasonable, but consult to pass that explanation on to the equipment owner. They may not be required to make appearances through an employer. have approval rights on each and every issue. This gives them a point of autonomy, but deprives them of the right to reduce the price collectively.
2) I’m going to be frank and police with a pro-painter bias, but I’d say anyone who looks objectively sympathetic to the players, and that will be a starting point. Both atp and WTA were founded as 50/50 partnerships between players (labor/talent) and tournaments (direction). But if we assume that either party is an equivalent stakeholder, why is paint strength much less remunerated than gross income?( According to my most productive reports, 10 to 14% in the majors; 20 to 25% in tournaments. The fact that there is no transparent disclosure that makes these figures easy to download is problematic in itself. )over the next decade; Even after considering the tournaments that pay for lodging and bonus fund contributions, control will continue to pay a negligible percentage of gross income in the tables compared to other sports and, perhaps more damningly, compared to the 50/50 government setup. from. . . .
3) The 50/50 partnership has exceeded its usefulness and does not reflect market truth. Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Serena . . . are billion-dollar marks. The concept that they can be thwarted through 250-tier tournaments is The Gerrymandering Corporation. Placing staff and control in the same aspect of the table is like placing two players on the same side of the tennis court.
4) The two non-unusual withdrawal responses from tournaments sound hollow. The major leagues claim that they are not for profit and gain advantages throughout the game, especially in the host country. (“We are not a classic gaming franchise. We are part of a federation”). This is weakening as the game becomes globalized. (Djokovic, for example, is meant to play for less than the market price so that the USTA is . . . Subsidize Jack Sock’s coach or an educational center in Orlando ?) ArrayMany gaming franchises have operating losses year after year, while their overall price increases significantly.
5) Time is important. We’re coming out of a pandemic. Unemployment rates are double digits. After six difficult months, the U. S. Open is miraculously organized and, more miraculously, is paying the cash value. The eve of this tournament is a uniquely horrible time to organize a union demonstration. absent from Miami This would probably not be the most productive time to talk about a boycott of the ATP, as players did last week.
6) Time puts players at a disadvantage. Tournaments, as institutions, can play the long game. Players have a shorter winning window and every hour they spend organizing, collecting and sitting in a convention room or Zoom is an hour they don’t spend on tennis. more explanation of why players should be wise in their strategy and execution. It is written in the Ecclesiastes: “What has been will return. And what has been done will be redoed. There’s nothing new under the sun. “The same debate, with the same lines of war, the same speech issues and the same structural benefits for control, which has existed for decades. This, in itself, suggests that control is gaining.
7) Vasek Pospisil is not a villain. On the contrary, he is a susceptible and available guy, but that does not make him the ideal union leader, he was given several sources: last week he was part of an organization that convened an assembly with ATP leaders. Excited and driven ATP leadership in the action (and inaction) he discovered reprehensible. Management replied that they did not have all the facts and they would do well to be more informed. Postpisil felt humiliated, despised and discredited, dressed as he was. in front of his companions. That’s understandable. And even, perhaps, endearing that he has that sensitivity, he is passionate about this factor and wants the best of his colleagues, that said . . .
8) You cannot have a seizure like this. You just can’t. Optics matter. And it was horrible. Cursing an official about his boss, while infuriated by a colleague, does not become a leader and absolutely undermines credibility. After this incident, players gained a text that read in part: “[A public collapse] allows the opposition to criticize, minimize, ridicule and forget the movement of players, while spending too much on very valid grievances such as; emotional, unstable, disorganized and un festive. Be aware of your priorities, and this is where you have maximum control lately; between the lines. Don’t give them the satisfaction of having an effect on that too. “
9) Unity is here. The strength of the players here is directly proportional to their solidarity. Management erodes leverage by dividing and conquering, locating replacement labor. This may mean overpaying the stars to block their support. This may mean placing replacement staff downstairs.
10) Players must professionalize their efforts. Seven months since its inception, PTPA is . . . What exactly? No one turns out to be able to articulate this organization. Do you need women involved?Don’t you need women?Do they deserve equality?It’s hard to locate something when you haven’t explained yourself. In addition. . .
11) And who is the leader? There are experienced legally educated professionals who would be willing to take the case and advise players (Pagination: Don Fehr, Jeff Kessler, leaders of a traditional union or a union-side law firm). voice: agents, lawyers, former emotionally volatile players; with non-public agendas, reputational damage – in players’ ears. Actors give leverage when they don’t professionalize the trade. They also lose in the short term. Several resources have told me that ATP leaders flood players with graphics, knowledge, and power point decks that leave them unarmed. They deserve not to live up to Novak Djokovic or Vasek Pospisil or Karen Khachanov to counter with their own econometric models. Make these paintings on behalf of the players. But when control brings knowledge and the strength of painting reacts with emotion, control wins.
12) In a healthy and functional society at 50/50, one party obtains transparent monetary knowledge of the other, or obtains an independent audit. It is indefensible that tournaments do not provide players with full monetary disclosure. knowing how much his wife is worth.
13) Think creatively. Discussing how to distribute the cake is essential, but limiting; maybe we want a minimum wage for several players; we may have separate seats on the board of directors; injured players may receive a salary; perhaps the length of the impressions you want. Change. Players may want more opportunities to earn outdoor income (discuss: why do tournaments, adding Miami, which has a seven-figure deal this year, may have play associations, but players can’t?)
14) We write a lot about this aspect a line. But at some point, tennis has to decide: should it be educational or jay-vee?If you need to function as a family business circle, rotting with conflicts, handing out jokes to players’ girlfriends, with no fundamental policies in the workplace, allowing coaches and parents to organize events, allowing control agencies to constitute players, and then pushing to eliminate prize money, that’s an option. If you need to manage this as a credible company, some fiefdoms will lose power, but it will be for the general advantages of the sport.
15) In this austere Bloomberg article, which inspired everyone to read, entitled “The Lost Business Opportunity of Professional Tennis,” Andrea Gaudenzi, the ATP leader, warns that he opposes tennis’s ” becomes obsolete. “I’d frame it more favorably. The NFL just signed a media deal priced at more than $100 billion. Tennis is not the NFL. (It’s more global, there are twice as many genders, longer careers, no head trauma. )More unity, more equity, more professionalism, less conflict and here is a genuine price. It’s just a question of whether the game is moving out of its own way. You don’t want to succeed in more winners. He just wants to decrease his direct mistakes.
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Enjoy all your paintings and appreciate the fact that you interact with us on Twitter, although I’m sure it can be tricky for you. While watching the Osaka/Hsieh match, I was thinking of prominent Chinese tennis players (adding Chinese Taipei) and I can also think of several in the WTA, adding Li Na, Peng Shuai and Zheng Jie, nor can I think of a single, double or single Chinese tennis player. to bring tournaments to the country, and based on commentary on the aforementioned match, the investments they seek to make in the players, no male tennis player has yet climbed the ladder. It might just be a matter of time, but I looked after having your opinion on that.
Excellent question. Some reflections: as in the United States, in China, tennis is more popular as a women’s game than a men’s game. Other USTA people will tell you that bringing an athletic and motivated eight-year-old woman to play tennis is one thing Serena Williams is concerned with, insisting on dressing and the ability to explicit hesitation, informing parents about the odds of college scholarships and the fact that nine of the ten highest-paid female athletes are tennis players. for the eight-year-old, athletic and motivated, is a very different issue. Tennis ranks decrease on spectrum. The top marginal player in the NFL or NBA does more than anything, but the most productive tennis players. College scholarships are rare and are awarded to foreign players.
In addition, coaches and agents tell me that some players are caught up in the mindset that good luck at Asian and inter-province games festivals is more vital than good fortune at professional events.
I was interested to see Auger-Aliassime opposite Korda to see Felix nevertheless play with someone younger than him . . . Until I realize Korda’s got one more month!the game continues to peek at us. I hope other people can be patient with him to win a name, as he would still be considered a prodigy through other maximum standards. Any week . . . – Willie T. , East Lansing, Michigan.
Love that. Especially since the races, men and women, in the 1930s, we want to recalibrate our accountants from what they’ve been doing for me lately.
How do we do Aslan Karatsev?27 years, hiking since 2013. He wasn’t there until 2020 for his first win in the 50 most sensitive. Obviously, some injuries and other difficulties along the way, but hopefully. The player who emigrated to Israel at the age of 3 returned to Russia at 16, which is an engaging story in itself. Suddenly, everything fits in 2021 and wins against the FAA, Schwartzman, Dimitrov, Dan Evans, Jannik Sinner and ruble Rublev. I sense that the 20-year-old prodigies are approaching, I can’t sense an eternal couple suddenly launching into elite orbit.
That was before Karatsev lost to Korda, but Lindsay, Steve and I were talking about it on the Tennis Channel the other day. I can never forget this set of circumstances: a player spends a whole decade as a couple, a defendant. , pejorative and derogatory descriptor; But here it is well, a year ago I was 26 years old, not in the 250 most sensible and played in Kazakhstan, catches teams, qualifies a major, exploits the most productive players and reaches the semi-finals. funny Cinderella story. We’ve noticed it many times. Vladimir Volchkov and Clarisa Fernandez reached the semi-finals of the majors; but then it turned into pumpkins. In Karatsav’s case, continue. In his next event, he lost to Thiem, but took him 7-6 in the 3rd, and won the doubles by a smart move. In the next event, win the titles. Suddenly, he has a 12-2 record over the year and will rank among the top for the foreseeable future.
I’ve discovered my new favorite WTA player! This setback is worthy of Wawrinka. – Helen of DC
Helen’s right. Flight to the city of Margarita:
You make a clever comment about the fact that Serena’s side is giving too much importance to the good fortune of Margaret Court’s record, which is dubious and draws more attention to Court’s homophobia. So my question is this: if Serena retires at just under the age of 24. can it have the long-term effect of keeping tennis stats at the Open Era records and completely forgetting Court, as it should?No one is satisfied that Ken Rosewall won 23 singles majors in cases similar to those of the Court, and I don’t forget that anyone asked the Big Three if they intended to break that record. Therefore, I do not understand why the Court’s case is treated so differently. — Brian O’Neill , Montreal
Interesting Serena has done more to legitimize Margaret Court than any marketing.
I don’t think I’ve heard the term until a few years ago, but now I see stories about pickleball and its growing popularity more than ever before. I’ve never noticed him playing, but after reading about him, it’s okay, surfing. Wikipedia entry, is a bit . . . informal, order (but probably more aerobic than) picnic, badminton, miniature golf, cornhole and jarts. I don’t need to offend those lovely games, which I all enjoyed, but they all seem to be social and recreational activities, not players in the global game. Do you see pickleball as a tennis festival, a possible gateway to tennis for new players, just a game on the market or anything else?”Srikanth
Tennis must, in fact, win Pickleball to house it in a snowshoe sports shop. Get on Facebook tennis.
Without the live WTA/ATP app, it’s hard to track live scores. The ATP site is better organized. An app for live events with all the details. Why does the WTA force it to scale on its terrible website?Where can we locate a smart app for WTA occasions?Thank you, Annaji
Uh. . . Array, we’re going to get this from the crowd. TNNS Live is my current date, but an opportunity here.
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The United States Tennis Association (USTA) and the Intercolegial Tennis Association (ITA) have entered into a new strategic alliance that formalizes the continued collaboration of the two organizations to lift school tennis, a partnership between the national game’s governing framework and their arrangement of university coaches bring greater concentration and resources to new and existing projects that , according to any of the organizations, they will gain advantages not only of university tennis, but of the entire tennis ecosystem.
Get us out, Ashok from San Diego:
I do not know if this has ever been discussed on the Mail Exchange, however, with regard to the GOAT debate between the Big Three, I think the full and accurate maximum measure is simply this: cumulative qualification problems throughout the total race. Over time, qualifying issues may not be representative because a player can accumulate more problems by playing more and/or winning smaller tournaments, etc. , but the Big Three have not done so in their long career, so this measure would incorporate everything: higher price of the majors, weeks in n. 1 (maximum by definition), number of titles, longevity, etc. , are in later stages where the effects would cause giant fluctuations.
It does not integrate two things: the series (for example, Federer’s 23 consecutive SF in the Slams, or the 2015/16 Djoker Slam) and the distributions (for example, Nadal’s clay concentration). But I’d say streaks that apply to career GOAT ratings, and overall slam (the popular top metric) ignores the cast as well. The problem, of course, is that the grade point formula itself was superseded in 2009, so you can’t just load up all the year-end numbers. In the old qualifying formula, titles were worth part of the problems, but losses from past rounds were worth more than part. However, to keep things undeniable, I simply doubled down on the previous rating issues from 2001-2008 and upped them to 2009-2021 (including 2021 AO). This deserves more credit from Federer as he played in the longest previous qualifying formula in the Big Three. However, Federer lost very few fites between 2004 and 2007 and I also eliminated his pre-2001 rating problems to compensate a bit. So this is probably sufficient as a first estimate. Of course, all the appropriate knowledge is available, and it would be wonderful if you could ask someone (Sharko?) To do a more accurate translation of the above qualification problems to the new formula. With that said, here are the numbers: Federer: 177000 Djokovic: 151642 Nadal: 151357 Not surprisingly Federer is first for his longevity and for the excellence of him across the board. It’s quite attractive that Djokovic surpassed Nadal with his 2021 AO win. But Nadal’s return gets more merit by doubling down on pre-2009 problems here, so the genuine hole is bigger. And that makes sense to me: Nadal’s two uphill slams are less valuable than Djokovic’s off-road excellence, more than a hundred more weeks at No. 1, all the WTF wins, etc. 9000 problems consistent with the year, Djokovic will surpass Federer by two to 3 years, which also makes sense. Note: Out of the Big Three, I like Nadal the most, so it’s disappointing to see him fall behind in the GOAT race. But I would keep this measurement and research 🙂
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Two days on the day of the innocent? Mmm.