By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, March 21, 2025
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Coco Gauff said she’s unaware of details from the PTPA lawsuit filed against the ATP, WTA and ITF.
After dishing out a double bagel beatdown to compatriot Sofia Kenin, Gauff said she supports players receiving a bigger piece of the revenue pie at tournaments.
“I don’t have any information on [the PTPA lawsuit] that I can share, but, you know, I’m all for making the sport better and trying to make it better,” Gauff told the media in Miami. “But I don’t know the details of it, to be completely honest.
“I just saw it on Instagram two days ago and didn’t really look into it.”
Led by Novak Djokovic, investment banker Bill Ackman and Canadian Vasek Pospisil, the PTPA filed a lawsuit in the New York Federal Court and the United Kingdom and European Union on Tuesday.
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The lawsuit claims that the ATP, WTA, and International Tennis Federation (ITF) are actively engaged in corrupt business practices that limit players’ ability to earn money and restrict their professional lives.
The ATP has blasted the lawsuit as meritless.
Gauff said when you compare tennis to other sports and it’s a fact players receive a smaller piece of the revenues in comparison.
“I guess for me the biggest thing would be not equity but more of a percentage of the revenue and prize money,” Gauff told the media in Miami. “Obviously for the women’s side of things, making as many tournaments as we can equal to the men when it comes to prize money terms.
“But, I mean, there is a whole other thing, just the visibility and things like that that I think we can also improve on. I guess on that side of things, that would be the biggest thing.”
Still, the Delray Beach baseliner, who celebrated her 21st birthday on March 13th, said perspective is important. Gauff said she appreciates the fact she can travel the world playing a sport she loves and be paid well for it.
“I also can’t sit here and complain. Like, I’m a professional athlete,” Gauff said. “I get paid pretty well to do what I love. You know, the amount of work is definitely less than the award, or the amount of work isn’t equal to the reward obviously.
“I’m an athlete. There are people who do much harder things in this world.
“Yeah, I mean, if we want to compare it to other sports, of course, but if you want to compare to other things in life, I’m not going to sit here and complain.”
