Djokovic - 'It's my responsibility to fight for players' - video Dailymotion

Novak Djokovic admits some wording in the PTPA lawsuit against the ATP and WTA is 'a bit strong' but believes players deserve better

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00:00I felt that it's also my responsibility and my role to try to use the influence and the

00:06role to support players and to fight for their rights.

00:11And it's been, yeah, almost 20 years that I've been on the tour.

00:17I've seen some changes, but there are some fundamental changes that are still yet to

00:22be made.

00:23And I really hope that all the governing bodies, including PTPA, will come together and solve

00:28these issues.

00:30This is a classic lawsuit, so lawyers to lawyers type of situation.

00:36So to be quite frank with you, there are things that I agree with in the lawsuit, and then

00:43there are also things that I don't agree with.

00:45And I found that maybe some wording was quite strong in there.

00:52But I guess the legal team knows what they are doing and what kind of terminology they

01:00are supposed to use in order to get the right effect.

01:03So I've never been a fan and supporter of division in our sport, but I've always fought

01:13for better representation and influence of and positioning of the players globally in

01:23our sport, which I think is still not where I think it should be and where most of the

01:28players think it should be, not just in terms of prize money, but in terms of many other

01:33points that have been also stated in that document.