Zverev opens up on decision to leave ATP Player Council

Alexander Zverev says it's 'upsetting' to see 'no progress' being made by the tour's governing bodies.

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00:00I mean, I was in the player council for the last couple of years.

00:08Don't really feel like there's any progress, to be honest.

00:13One of the reasons why maybe I also left because I feel like it's just a lot of talk and a lot of

00:21time invested into it and not really any changes. But again, that's to the higher powers of

00:28the tennis world. That's not my decision. That's not up to me. That's not up to players, to be honest.

00:37And yeah, it sometimes does feel like the governing bodies don't really get along so well.

00:43And it's very difficult to get them into one room and talk about what is good for the future of tennis,

00:51really. When we try to get into the politics, we don't really have that much of a voice.

00:58in it. So most of the time it's a lot of a lot of investments from time-wise from our side,

01:08but not a lot of results, which is sometimes a bit upsetting.

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