“Only Our Sport With Very Strong Female Product”: ATP Chairman Doubles Down on Roger Federer’s Idea

Published 11/01/2021, 6:15 PM EDT

The popularity and influence of Roger Federer stretch outside just the court, and into the sport in general. Recently, there was a word of update by the ATP Chairman, Andrea Gaudenzi, who sided with the 20-time Grand Slam winner’s previously made suggestion.

Some time ago, Roger Federer put forward the proposal of merging the ATP and the WTA, the legal governing bodies of the men’s and women’s game, respectively. Andrea felt that this association between the two bodies would only strengthen the unity between them.

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He welcomed Federer’s suggestion and stated, “Bringing together men and women makes our product stronger. Because tennis is unique. We are the only sport with a very strong female product. We have 50% male fans and 50% female fans. immense luck.”

(Quotes translated using Google translate)

Gaudenzi : "Associer hommes et femmes rend notre produit plus fort. Parce que le tennis est unique. Nous sommes le seul sport avec un produit féminin très fort. On a 50 % de fans masculins et 50 % de fans féminins. C'est une immense chance."
— Quentin Moynet (@QuentinMoynet) November 1, 2021

The idea proposed in 2020 by Roger Federer

Last year, the Swiss ace had made public his idea of merging the two bodies. He felt that if they merge things will be more organized and less divided.

In 2020, Federer had proposed this idea. He had stated, “It probably should have happened a long time ago. But maybe now is really the time. It’s too confusing for the fans when there are different ranking systems, different logos, different websites, different tournament categories.”

Coming to tennis, Federer ended his season after the Wimbledon Championships this year. He stated that he would need another knee surgery that would keep him out of the game for many months. We hope to see him on the Tour again and compete for the biggest titles against the top players once again.

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Rohan Kollare is a Tennis author at EssentiallySports. Rohan has studied Sports Management and has a trophy cabinet adorned with accolades won in district and state-level tennis competitions. He has previously worked in Content Operations for Disney’s Hotstar for over a year, covering Tennis and Formula One.

“Only Our Sport With Very Strong Female Product”: ATP Chairman Doubles Down on Roger Federer’s Idea

The idea proposed in 2020 by Roger Federer

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