A short (and slightly random), post tonight following the conclusion of not the snooker, but the tennis staged at Queens today in London, where as fellow tennis fans may have seen, former world number three and Masters Cup champion David Nalbandian was defaulted for causing injury to a line judge.
The reason for the post though is not that action, but his comments in his press conference concerning the governing body in tennis, the ATP, which made me smile given recent stories in the snooker world concerning the players contracts. Indeed you can almost substitute ATP for World Snooker and mistake the quotes for those of one or two snooker players…
“When somebody else do a mistake, they have to pay in the same way […] [I]n the beginning of the year you have to sign [something that says] you have to agree with everything that the ATP says, right? And sometimes you don’t. And if you don’t want to sign, you cannot play ATP tournaments. So you don’t have chance to ask, to tell, to change something, nothing. […] But sometimes ATP put a lot of pressure on the players, and sometimes you get injured because you play on dangerous surface and nothing happen. Keep rolling. Keep rolling all time. Nothing pay for that.”