The blue's supporters write directly to president Gaudenzi: “Disgusted, indignant and worried about the unrepeatable expressions of the Australian”
Luigi Ansaloni
December 20 – 7.38pm – MILANO
The people of social media take the field in defense of Jannik Sinner and this time not only with words, but with deeds. A letter addressed directly to the ATP to say enough to the continuous provocative attitudes and words of Nick Kyrgios, the most bitter and avid “hater” towards the number one in the world, with the Australian born in 1995 involved in terrible accusations awaiting the appeal of Wada on the Clostebol case. An attitude that pushed the Italian supporters and others to send a letter to the ATP and its president Andrea Gaudenzi, after Kyrgios in his last public outing had said he was ready to incite the entire audience at the Australian Open in case of clash between the two.
“take a stand”
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“With this appeal, the athletes who follow and love the tennis played, cheering in compliance with the rules and fair competition – we read in the letter which went viral on X after the idea of some Sinner fans – ask the ATP Tour to take a formal and substantial position towards the continuous attacks, defamations and incitements to hatred expressed by Nick Kyrgios towards some colleagues. The role of sport and those who represent it is to support its founding values of respect and loyalty. Nobody has the right to stripping sport of the cornerstones that define it, from which people draw inspiration and young people relate to it by looking for models to follow”. The letter continues: “We are disgusted, indignant and concerned by the unrepeatable expressions that Nick Kyrgios expresses, even in the memory of violent acts that have already occurred at the hands of fanatics fueled by hatred. There cannot be a code of conduct within the circuit that protects players from similar abuses and in fact article 8.03 says that a precise responsibility of the ATP towards the players and, above all, towards the public to which it wants to address, for which it must be a point of Now whatever future action comes from this will shape who you are as institutions.”
article 8.03
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In short, the fans are asking the ATP for immediate intervention to stop the climate of hatred created by Kyrgios. From this point of view, the ATP could intervene against the Australian on the basis of article 8.03 of the code of conduct which underlines how against the integrity of the game is behavior with “comments to the press or public bodies that unreasonably attack a group of people, a tournament, a sponsor, a player, a referee or the ATP itself”.
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