Rogers Removed From ATP Board; Player Unrest Grows -
Rogers rimosso dai quadri dirigenziali ATP

Reliable sources in the game are confirming that Perry Rogers has been removed from the ATP Board of Directors. Rogers, who managed Andre Agassi throughout his career and remains Agassi's best friend, has served, for the past two years, as one of three player representatives on the six man Board which is chaired by ATP CEO Etienne de Villiers.
The player council, comprised of 10 current players, one former player and a coach, voted Rogers off the board. A vote of at least seven of the 10 members of the player council (66 percent) was required to remove Rogers. There is no indication yet of who Rogers’ replacement will be. According to the ATP constitution "the vacancy should be filled as promptly as reasonably possible."
"We can confirm that there has been a change to the composition of the ATP Board by action of the Player Council and look forward to working with the new Player Board Representative," an ATP spokesman told Tennis Week this morning. "We thank Perry Rogers for his dedicated service on the ATP Board."[...]
But the calendar remained an insoluble problem as far as placating top players were concerned and the decision to downgrade Monte Carlo and Hamburg from Masters Series status last year as well as switching Hamburg to a slot after Wimbledon so that Madrid could be moved into May, elicited a remarkably vocal response from Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Nikolay Davydenko — all three of whom criticized their leader at a press conference at Monte Carlo thirteen months ago. [...]
" All this has created the kind of atmosphere whereby players feel they are not being listened to and that their careers are being damaged. Time and again in recent weeks, Nadal has complained of the compressed European claycourt season and now has blistered feet to show for it. Quite apart from that, there have been 23 defaults in five tournaments since the tour arrived in Europe, creating a new crisis for the sport.
Given the current atmosphere, it was inevitable that there would be scapegoats and Rogers, who has been brilliant at handling Agassi’s frequently tempestuous career, has become the first.
"But this is only the beginning," one well informed insider told me from Hamburg today. "The top players are not going to go away. They want what they have always wanted — representation on the Board that reflects their views. It is an old story and has been going on for years. There have been too many people sitting in conference rooms not listening to what the people who have to go out and play the matches on different surfaces with no proper preparation are telling them."

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Rogers rimosso dai quadri dirigenziali ATP

Secondo fonti autorevoli Perry Rogers e’ stato allontanato dai dirigenti dell’ ATP. Rogers, im passato manager di Agassi e tuttora il suo miglior amico, era uno dei tre ex giocatori facenti parte dello staff presieduto da Etienne de Villiers. E’ stata l’associazione giocatori, composta da dieci tennisti, un ex giocatore e un allenatore a decretare la prematura uscita di Rogers. Non e’ ancora stato comunicato il nome della persona che prendera’ il suo posto, anche se la decisione in merito e’ imminente. “ Confermiamo che ci sono avvicendamenti in corso in seno alla dirigenza, dell’ATP, ringraziamo comunque Rogers per l’ottimo lavoro svolto “, le fredde parole di un portavoce dell’associazione. Rogers era considerato uno collaboratori piu’ fidati di De Villiers, pertanto quest’allontanamento rappresenta un’ulteriore malcontento dei giocatori verso gli attuali capi del mondo del tennis. Le decisioni prese recentemente sulla compilazione del calendario 2009 e sul declassamento di alcuni tornei come Amburgo e Montecarlo rimangono alla base di questa iniziativa e hanno portato allo scontro diplomatico. Federer, Nadal e Davydenko hanno gia’ aspramente criticato tali decisioni. Dichiara un anonimo membro :“ I giocatori non si sentono tutelati e sono preoccupati circa il proseguo della loro carriera, sono compatti e non si fermeranno qui. Pretendono semplicemente di essere ascoltati come prima. Al momento le decisioni cruciali vengono prese a tavolino da persone che col tennis hanno veramente poco a che fare “
 

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