Nadal ’s resignation appears to have had little to do with the main issue preoccupying the player council at present, which is the size of their pay packets at the four grand slam tournaments.
Rather, it has been triggered by the lack of movement on Nadal’s pet project, the introduction of a two-year ranking system. He has argued repeatedly that this is the best way to prolong the careers of the leading players, by making it easier for them to withdraw from tournaments when they have physical ailments.
But Roger Federer , who is supposed to workwith Nadal as president of the player council, has stated his own objection to the two-year idea. “I think it would make thingsrather boring,” he said in December. “It would be a struggle for lower-ranked players to make the breakthrough.”
The other main point of difference betweenthe sport’s two most famous players was around the appointment of the new ATP chief executive, a post that was given to Brad Drewett around the turn of the year.
Nadal backed the application of former Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek, believing that as a top-10 player from the 1990s, Krajicek would be more likely to feel sympathetic towards his complaints of overload.
But Federer took the view that Krajicek, who now works as tournament director of the Rotterdam Open, was insufficiently experienced in the business world. The result was that Drewett, formerly the director of the ATP’s operations in the Pacific and Asian regions, came in as a compromise candidate.
The player council consists of 12 members, including six members of the world top 100 in men’s singles.
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