Bill Ackman is backing Novak @DjokerNole's tennis trade association, Ahmad Nassar leaving OneTeam to run it
The Professional Tennis Players Association has announced Ahmad Nassar as the first Executive Director of the player-focused group started by Novak Djokovic and Vasek Pospisil in the fall of 2020, as well as the launch of a for-profit business to benefit professional tennis players called the Winners Alliance. And the PTPA now has $26 million to fund its efforts for the foreseeable future after a funding raise co-led by Winners Alliance Chairman Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Foundation, private equity firm Prysm Capital, and Nassar. Nassar and the PTPA held a meeting with players Thursday night in New York ahead of the US Open (which begins next week) to better introduce the organization, Nassar, and the group licensing concept.
Nassar, who will serve as CEO of Winners Alliance, founded OneTeam Collective in 2016 and later led OneTeam Partners, before stepping down in June. OneTeam Partners, backed by the NFLPA, MLBPA and RedBird Capital Partners, successfully represented the commercial interests of men and women athletes in many different sports, including the US Women’s National Team, and players from the NWSL, NBA, WNBA, MLS, and NFL, creating better bargaining position in the market by aggregating athletes’ commercial rights. Winners Alliance will try to emulate OneTeam’s success for tennis players, starting with the establishment of a sustainable group licensing program for video games, trading cards, and related areas.
Ackman, Djokovic, and Pospisil reached out to Nassar before he sold his equity stake in OneTeam seeking advice on how to move the PTPA forward. The week after Nassar divested his OneTeam stake, he flew out to Wimbledon and had a three-hour dinner with Djokovic and Pospisil - it was Pospisil's birthday, so they got him a cake and sang him happy birthday.
“It’s one of those surreal moments in your career where you’re like, ‘what am I doing here?’” Nassar said, chuckling. “I wouldn’t have guessed we’d be having this conversation a year ago, or even six months ago.”
Nassar got confirmations from the PTPA that it would be representing all pro tennis players, including women, and that it wasn’t attempting to launch its own tour. Both would have been deal-breakers, he said. Additionally, Nassar added that the PTPA does not want to replace the ATP Tour Players Council and that the PTPA isn’t concerned with membership numbers; if a person is a professional tennis player, then the PTPA is looking out for their interests, he said. Nassar hopes to meet with key tennis stakeholders during the next two weeks of the US Open.
“My view is that having a truly independent voice and organization representing the voice of all players will help the sport over the long run, and I don’t mean just for players,” said Nassar, whose hire was aided by TurnkeyZRG. "This is not a 'players out for themselves and everybody else good luck' mantra. It helps grow the game; it helps attract the best athletes to play the game.”
Nassar will report to the Winners Alliance board, which is headed by Ackman, who has backed the PTPA from its beginning in September 2020, and Prysm, which worked with Nassar previously in several of his players association projects. Prysm co-founders Jay Park and Muhammad Mian will take seats on the Winners Alliance board. They’ll be joined by Christina Francis, President of Magic Johnson Enterprises and former CMO of the Orange Bowl and NFL Players Association.
The PTPA, and Nassar, will be based in Washington, D.C. High on the organization's to-do list is forming a players’ executive committee and finalizing bylaws before the end of the year. Besides staffing up the organization in the US and globally, likely 10 people in the first year, Nassar said, the PTPA will be launching a Player Services Platform to provide players with discounts, benefits, insurance options, travel and logistics support, player concierge amenities, tax advisory and legal network, discipline appeals support, access to financial planners, player charity support, and media and public relations counsel. While Djokovic is unable to enter the US due to his unvaccinated status, Nassar will be at the US Open meeting with players and tennis stakeholders.

周四还在纽约开了球员吹风会。我说这段神神叨叨的。

A tennis players trade association backed by hedge fund titan Bill Ackman is ready to formally begin advocating for the sport’s top pros—armed with a new pool of money, a new leader, and a new commercial venture.
The Professional Tennis Players Association has raised $26 million, co-led by Ackman’s foundation, to launch a for-profit entity called Winners Alliance that will help pro men’s and women’s tennis players monetize their stardom. The group has also hired OneTeam Partners CEO Ahmad Nassar to be the PTPA’s executive director and Winners Alliance CEO.

They’re the first major moves for the PTPA, which was launched in 2020 by Novak Djokovic and Canadian pro Vasek Pospisil, but so far has done little in terms of organization and impact. The group met with players in midtown Manhattan on Thursday evening ahead of the U.S. Open, and plans to hire a full team to formally begin operations in the coming months.
Those efforts will be overseen by Nassar, who’s well-versed in helping athletes in licensing, marketing, media and investing. Nassar worked for a decade at the NFLPA’s commercial arm, and in 2019 became founding CEO of OneTeam Partners, which works with players unions and athletes from sports across the country. Nassar sold his OneTeam equity earlier this year.

“Tennis has more total viewers worldwide than baseball and football combined, but just 10-ish% of their revenue,” Nassar said in an interview. “And the athletes only see about 17% of that revenue, whereas football and baseball are hovering around 50%. It’s just an order of magnitude off.”
The PTPA plans to advocate for improvements in player benefits, safety, rules, tournament schedules and compensation. More than 40 men’s and women’s players attended Thursday’s two-hour meeting, led by Nassar and Ackman.

度娘有病吗？一会儿帖子被删，一会儿帖子又新开张，一个PTPA, 度娘比ATP还紧张？

Professional Tennis Players Association@ptpaplayers·
The funding will enable the PTPA to launch a Player Services Platform to serve professional men’s and women’s tennis players globally. Services will include discounts on travel, food, insurance, and travel and logistics support, among other benefits.

Bill Ackman:
This is an important first step in transforming tennis so all pro players can make a good living, attracting more diverse players, making the sport more competitive and appealing to fans, driving engagement and enhancing the sport for all participants in the tennis ecosystem.

才看到。PTPA应该参与赛事运营，这才是关键

竟然关了你这么久？？？你要接受改造，不要偷懒全部发英文。

你好像是享受的雷达的待遇

难怪atp那么忌惮PTPA恨德约恨到骨子里了这组织搞好了分分钟取代atp甚至威胁ITF 的地位
正规运营，有助于让更多的球员加入，但是也同样面临有可能像ATP那样从一个球员组织变成一个官-僚组织，需要去平衡这个关系

由对冲基金巨头比尔·阿克曼（Bill Ackman）支持的一个网球运动员行业协会准备正式开始为这项运动的顶级职业选手提供支持，他们拥有一个新的资金池、新的领导者和新的商业风险。
由阿克曼基金会共同领导的职业网球运动员协会（Professional Tennis Players Association）筹集了2600万美元，成立了一个名为优胜者联盟（Winners Alliance）的盈利性实体，该实体将帮助职业男女网球运动员从他们的明星地位中获利。集团还聘请了OneTeam Partners首席执行官Ahmad Nassar担任PTPA的执行董事和优胜者联盟首席执行官。

这是PTPA的第一个重大举措，由诺瓦克·德约科维奇（Novak Djokovic）和加拿大职业选手瓦塞克·波斯皮西尔（Vasek Pospisil）于2020年发起，但迄今为止在组织和影响方面做得很少。周四晚上，在美国公开赛之前，该组织在曼哈顿中城与球员会面，并计划聘请一支完整的团队在未来几个月正式开始运营。
这些努力将由纳萨尔监督，他在许可证、市场营销、媒体和投资方面非常擅长帮助运动员。纳萨尔在NFLPA的商业部门工作了十年，并于2019年成为OneTeam Partners的创始首席执行官，该公司与来自全国各地的运动员工会和运动员合作。今年早些时候，纳萨尔出售了他的OneTeam股权。

纳萨尔在一次采访中说：“网球在全世界的观众总数超过了棒球和足球的总和，但仅占其收入的10%左右。”。“运动员只看到收入的17%左右，而足球和棒球则徘徊在50%左右。这只是一个数量级。”
PTPA计划倡导改善球员福利、安全、规则、比赛时间表和薪酬。超过40名男女选手参加了周四由纳萨尔和阿克曼领导的两小时会议。