It has been four years since Pospisil, now 29, was ranked among the top 30 players on the planet. “If all the players were made aware how deep the rabbit hole goes, we’d have a lot of outraged tennis players,” said Pospisil, who is aware the powers that be in tennis might not look kindly on such rabble-rousing. But I don’t really care ... We’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.” Pospisil is one of 10 players on the ATP players council. According to statistics published on Twitter by Pospisil, tennis players ranked 51st to 100th in the world make an average of $583,235 per year. “Tennis players don’t have representation, so (the tournaments) give as much as they want to give.

Source: thestar June 28, 2019 21:22 UTC