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Are these guys complete asses or what?
Does this not reek of gamesmanship? They are trying to screw around with Lleyton's head during the Masters Cup tournament.
First of all, to all of you who hate LLeyton get ready for Hewitt's reign as #1 for the next few years. The ATP has pretty much guaranteed that Lleyton will now enter every event with a with all the motivation in the world to mow down the competition (like he was not intense enough?)
Second, What are they trying to prove? Lleyton has the support of many players on the tour which is why it took so long to get tennis people to appear on the appeals panel. Is this a message they're trying to send to the players who have gripes with the ATP? Messing with a player's mind during a tourney is not going to endear them to any of the players.
Third, Lleyton's lawyers are the same ones representing the Indianapolis tournament that is suing the ATP. This pretty much tells me that the ATP is not thinking. If you have the #1 player in the world and tournament organizers/sponsors starting to align themselves with each other, the ATP which is already hemorraging money is setting itself up for further damage.
Finally, this is unnecessary. Both parties could have found a way to settle this issue. ie when Mark Miles offered to lower the fine to $20,000, Lleyton and his people should have taken this as a step toward negotiating a settlement. However the ATP is clearly in the wrong for having scheduled the hearing for next week and for anouncing this the day before his final match in Paris.
Lleyton was my #2 fave behind Marat but now he and Marat are co-favorites of mine. I hope Lleyton continues to tie up the ATP into knots. I absolutely hate these people.
Does this not reek of gamesmanship? They are trying to screw around with Lleyton's head during the Masters Cup tournament.
First of all, to all of you who hate LLeyton get ready for Hewitt's reign as #1 for the next few years. The ATP has pretty much guaranteed that Lleyton will now enter every event with a with all the motivation in the world to mow down the competition (like he was not intense enough?)
Second, What are they trying to prove? Lleyton has the support of many players on the tour which is why it took so long to get tennis people to appear on the appeals panel. Is this a message they're trying to send to the players who have gripes with the ATP? Messing with a player's mind during a tourney is not going to endear them to any of the players.
Third, Lleyton's lawyers are the same ones representing the Indianapolis tournament that is suing the ATP. This pretty much tells me that the ATP is not thinking. If you have the #1 player in the world and tournament organizers/sponsors starting to align themselves with each other, the ATP which is already hemorraging money is setting itself up for further damage.
Finally, this is unnecessary. Both parties could have found a way to settle this issue. ie when Mark Miles offered to lower the fine to $20,000, Lleyton and his people should have taken this as a step toward negotiating a settlement. However the ATP is clearly in the wrong for having scheduled the hearing for next week and for anouncing this the day before his final match in Paris.
Lleyton was my #2 fave behind Marat but now he and Marat are co-favorites of mine. I hope Lleyton continues to tie up the ATP into knots. I absolutely hate these people.
