Kyrgios suggests males enjoying in opposition to girls as ATP and WTA excursions focus on merger

Nick Kyrgios has requested if a merger between the ATP and the WTA would imply women and men competing in the identical tennis attracts. Reports counsel that talks will happen later this month over a historic merger that might ‘give one voice’ to women and men. 

The proposals might see the lads’s and girls’s video games come below the identical governance. Figures in assist of the change consider it would see a extra equal monetary redistribution. 

However, the initiative has not acquired unanimous encouragement from a number of key stakeholders. There is seemingly a worry that some throughout the males’s recreation will try to forestall a merger as they earn 75 per-cent greater than the ladies. 

Former Wimbledon finalist Kyrgios has beforehand spoken out in opposition to males’s and girls’s tennis being introduced below the identical umbrella. And the Australian appeared to query the reviews in two tweets on Monday morning. 

Responding to a tweet in regards to the potential merger, Kyrgios requested: “Does that mean we merge the draws?????” 

He continued alongside a confused emoji: “Genuine question.”

According to the Daily Telegraph, talks between key ATP and WTA executives will happen in London later this month. Saudi Arabian curiosity in tennis and the specter of an equal to golf’s LIV tour is reported to have prompted the summit. 

Andrea Gaudenzi and Steve Simon – heads of the ATP and WTA, respectively – supposedly have loads of hurdles earlier than the proposal can occur, although. There is believed to be concern in regards to the rising affect of the participant’s union arrange by Novak Djokovic 4 years in the past. 

Kyrgios has beforehand expressed opposition to a merger between the ATP and WTA. He responded to a Roger Federer tweet in 2020 with a blunt riposte.