Dominic Thiem Consolidates His Resistance Towards ATP Players Relief Fund

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many lower-ranked tennis players were financially affected. To help those players, Novak Djokovic created a plan for higher-ranked players to contribute to a fund set up for them. A controversy was started when Dominic Thiem did not want to do it. He has just clarified his stance. Check out what he said.

Dominic Thiem Clarifies

In a recent interview with CNN, Dominic Thiem was asked a lot of questions. One of those questions was about the statements he made regarding the Player Relief Fund. He replied by saying,

“What I said is that there are guys on the Future Tour who are not living professionally. That’s what I said. And there are guys who don’t deserve the support and I’m never going to change my opinion. There are many, many guys who deserve it and that’s my opinion. But, well, the media back then put it wrong and I hope that I can put it a little bit in the right place now.”

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The player relief fund was created as many tennis players lost their primary source of income which were tournaments. That is not going to be the case anymore as the tennis season is returning and that is going to be Thiem’s focus right now.

The ATP came out with a grueling schedule for the remaining event in 2020. There are going to be events played every week and in addition to that, the US Open and the French Open are going to be played in the same month.

A lot of players have said that they would prefer to skip the US Open due to the many restrictions at the event. However, Thiem has decided to play the event even though he was concerned at first. Hopefully, he will finally win his first Grand Slam by winning the US Open.