August 21st, 2008
ATP Chairman de Villiers to Step Down, Men’s Tennis Search Begins
In the end, he operated so secretly from the players that Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic took the unprecedented action of electing themselves to the ATP Player Council to have a say in their sport. Apparently the last straw for de Villiers was the top players signing a petition that the ATP not automatically renew his contract for 2009, and shop around for other candidates.
Posted by Richard Vach @ 7:45 pm in ATP, Tennis | 31 Comments »