[nemala]

Micky Lawler, the president of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), has expressed her desire to see the creation of a unified body to govern men’s and women’s tennis globally.

WTA president Lawler: Merger with ATP should be discussed 'more seriously' - SportsPro Media

 

[ziggy2shus3]

In a WTA and ATP merger, the ATP would probably totally dominate the WTA.
The women broke away from the ATP when they were receiving about 1/20 the prise money.
The only positive might be the eliminating of some duplicate management overhead costs.

 

[goldenlox]

Thats what Larry Scott wanted as WTA CEO. He saw how well IW & Miami were and wanted the whole year to be joint events with equal money.
The men dont want that

 

[vogus_emeritus]

of course they want that, because then the women could demand the same money as the men get at all tour events (not just the Grand Slams & joint events) based on the principle of sexual equality. Merging with the ATP would be a huge cash cow for the WTA. I kind of doubt that this would be a marriage of true love though.

 

[EkVraNaamEnVan]

Maybe when the big 3 are gone, and the ATP is no longer attracting crowds and sponsors.

 

[Morning Morgan]

Lol what a joke. We need competent people who actually loves women's tennis to be in the governing board. These people can't see beyond their paychecks.

 

[Saraya!]

2020 and times of #metoo and WTA wants to hang on ATP Tour :lol:

 

[Naomifandeep]

Nope wta should remain as one. Billie jean king and future players fought so hard for women tennis and this will be like slap on their faces.
Better to promote new players and upcoming stars to public and tv audience for boost. Look how atp successfully promote their young players. Atp will never agree to share the money with wta. And hard fact is atp brings more money. Why should they share it with wta .? Will wta share yec money with atp? Nope..
So wta should remain different and market wta players better. And it will never happen. Most atp players will never agree to share prize money outside slams. Wta needs to fight their problems by themselves

 

[Molok]

We could merge tennis forums first as see how it works :spit:

 

[Saraya!]

We could merge tennis forums first as see how it works :spit:

Best posting!! :haha:

 

[Raiden]

We could merge tennis forums first as see how it works :spit:

Haha!


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[Kurmay3Katti]

WTA should first focus on promoting their own stars before doing a merger with ATP :lol:

Though I guess maybe if they merge with ATP maybe they'll get actual competent people handling important decisions in WTA.

 

[Sheriff]

Not sure what they'd gain from that. The WTA is doing just fine on its own. Maybe they could push for a few more joint tournaments, especially trying to unify at all Masters-level events. But merging the tours doesn't seem workable, or a good idea.

 

[Sheriff]

Maybe when the big 3 are gone, and the ATP is no longer attracting crowds and sponsors.

This will never happen. Stars always get replaced by new stars.

 

[EkVraNaamEnVan]

This will never happen. Stars always get replaced by new stars.

True, young guns like Zverev, Tsitsipas, Danii and even Sinner are already attracting new crowds.

 

[Wiggly]

The option of firing Simon and Lawley should be discussed more seriously. They're both incompetent. They abandoned ATP owned Tennis TV just three years ago to create an inferior streaming service but they now want to merge with the ATP?

WTF.

 

[Absolute10]

WTA president: Merger with ATP should be discussed ‘more seriously’

No it shouldn't. ATP doesn't want YOUR ON-COURT-COACHING crapppp.

 

[Saraya!]

The option of firing Simon and Lawley should be discussed more seriously. They're both incompetent.

:worship:

 

[VeeJJ]

There would be a lot of benefits to this.

ATP just does so much more better than the WTA.


I’m not scoffing at this. I don’t think prize money or rights would come under attack or take a step back.


And I would be curious to hear push back on the ideal from other women.


There has been this “anything you can do I can do” vibe for a while.


This should be seriously looked at.

 

[leftbrian]

We could merge tennis forums first as see how it works :spit:

Post of the year :haha: :haha: :cheer: