By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, March 21, 2025
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Coco Gauff mentioned she’s unaware of particulars from the PTPA lawsuit filed in opposition to the ATP, WTA and ITF.
After shelling out a double bagel beatdown to compatriot Sofia Kenin, Gauff mentioned she helps gamers receiving an even bigger piece of the income pie at tournaments.
“I haven’t got any info on [the PTPA lawsuit] that I can share, however, , I am all for making the game higher and attempting to make it higher,” Gauff advised the media in Miami. “However I do not know the main points of it, to be utterly sincere.
“I simply noticed it on Instagram two days in the past and did not actually look into it.”
Led by Novak Djokovic, funding banker Invoice Ackman and Canadian Vasek Pospisil, the PTPA filed a lawsuit within the New York Federal Courtroom and the UK and European Union on Tuesday.
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The lawsuit claims that the ATP, WTA, and Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) are actively engaged in corrupt enterprise practices that restrict gamers’ capacity to earn cash and prohibit their skilled lives.
The ATP has blasted the lawsuit as meritless.
Gauff mentioned whenever you examine tennis to different sports activities and it is a reality gamers obtain a smaller piece of the revenues as compared.
“I suppose for me the most important factor can be not fairness however extra of a proportion of the income and prize cash,” Gauff advised the media in Miami. “Clearly for the ladies’s aspect of issues, making as many tournaments as we are able to equal to the boys on the subject of prize cash phrases.
“However, I imply, there’s a entire different factor, simply the visibility and issues like that that I feel we are able to additionally enhance on. I suppose on that aspect of issues, that might be the most important factor.”
Nonetheless, the Delray Seaside baseliner, who celebrated her twenty first birthday on March thirteenth, mentioned perspective is vital. Gauff mentioned she appreciates the very fact she will be able to journey the world taking part in a sport she loves and be paid properly for it.
“I can also’t sit right here and complain. Like, I am an expert athlete,” Gauff mentioned. “I receives a commission fairly properly to do what I really like. You recognize, the quantity of labor is certainly lower than the award, or the quantity of labor is not equal to the reward clearly.
“I am an athlete. There are individuals who do a lot more durable issues on this world.
“Yeah, I imply, if we wish to examine it to different sports activities, after all, however if you wish to examine to different issues in life, I am not going to sit down right here and complain.”
