Ons Jabeur details why she joined Novak Djokovic’s PTPA

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Ons Jabeur details why she joined Novak Djokovic’s PTPA
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Ons Jabeur says the tennis authorities “only listen to the top players” and urged them to change that “wrong” approach. In January, 29-year-old Jabeur signed up to become a player executive committee of Novak Djokovic’s Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA).

In 2020, Djokovic launched the PTPA – an association that has the goal of ensuring better rights and conditions for all players, but especially for the lower-ranked ones. Jabeur, who has made three Grand Slam finals over the last 15 months, broke into the top-10 for the first time in 2021 October. “Before, if I talked, nobody would listen because I wasn’t in the top 10 and I wasn’t a top player, but now they listen.

Now they would [care about] my opinion. I feel like it’s wrong to only listen to the top players, but for me, I feel like I need to make a difference right now. I need to speak up for every woman about what’s wrong and what could be better,” Jabeur told ESPN.

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Jabeur believes Djokovic’s association has good intentions

In January, the PTPA announced its first Player Executive Committee. The committee includes four male players and four female players,…

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