In the past, Sergiy Stakhovsky has often made misogynistic remarks about female tennis players and women in general. Stakhovsky believes that the men are the ones who push tennis forward. Stakhovsky recently joined the players council and was asked to give an opinion about it.
You can always focus on the negatives, the world no. 1 said. Sure, theres always a person or two or three that in the past has stated something that is maybe not appropriate. Sergiy has been very involved and contributing a lot to the politics in tennis in a positive way, trying to represent a lot of players, especially that are ranked between 50 and 100.
He contributed a lot to the challenger level improvements. So there are a lot of positives about him. Certainly you pointed out the negative. I cant say much about that. But hes one of the 10 players in the council. Theres a lot of positives to point out, as well.
Djokovic was also asked if he is comfortable with continuing in his role as an ATP player representative: Look, I am comfortable, as all of the council members, because thats what we decided in our meetings and conference calls that we had in last couple of months on that topic.
Obviously, thats an ongoing process and trial. Those are all now allegations in the moment. If he is not proven guilty, he stays innocent, or hes proven guilty, thats a completely different situation for us and we have to address it.
Now hes been there and hes been someone that has always fought for the players rights and represented players in a great way. Thats highly respected amongst the players, thats for sure, because hes one of the guys thats been longest on the board, involved in tennis as a tennis player, coach, someone that really has a lot of enthusiasm and energy obviously.
I cant say more about his trial because I dont know. Im not eligible. Im not in a position to talk about it. I will let authorities deal with that, and well see what happens when we hear whats the end line.
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