Novak Djokovic details why ATP-WTA systems don’t allow players to impact decisions

Novak Djokovic has vowed to continue his fight to give players more voice as the record 24-time Grand Slam champion believes the current ATP and WTA systems are structured in a way that doesn’t really give players much influence in the important decisions.

When Djokovic created the PTPA in 2020, he highlighted that one of his top priorities was to ensure better rights and conditions for all players. “Players get the shorter end of the stick 90 plus percent of the time. Why? Just because the system is structured and founded in such a way that doesn’t allow players to, you know, actually have a decision-making role.

The fact that I mean both in ATP and WTA governance, you have 50 percent of ATP and WTA belongs to players and 50 percent to tournaments. And in most of the cases, you’re always going to have a conflict of interest. If you actually go to the very structure and the system that is in place, I was part of the council and president of the council for six or seven years, so I understand how things work,” Djokovic explained in a video uploaded on PTPA’s X account.