ATP chairman Gaudenzi to add interim CEO role

LONDON — ATP Chairman Andrea Gaudenzi will add the function of chief government officer to his duties on an interim foundation after present CEO Massimo Calvelli leaves the job on the finish of June and the seek for a successor begins, the boys’s tennis tour introduced Friday.

It is a turbulent time within the sport. An antitrust lawsuit was filed in federal courtroom in New York final month by the gamers’ affiliation based by Novak Djokovic, accusing the ATP, the ladies’s tour and different key organizations of being a cartel.

Individually, Djokovic was amongst 20 main gamers who wrote to the heads of the 4 Grand Slam tournaments to ask for a better share of prize cash at these occasions and extra say in decision-making.

Calvelli was appointed ATP CEO in 2020, and the tour mentioned participant compensation is $100 million larger this season than in 2019.