The world’s top tennis players and their agents have held a series of private meetings in Melbourne over the past three days and agreed to escalate industrial action for a bigger share of the Australian Open’s revenue as the tournament officially kicks off to record crowds.
The agents of the top 10 mens and womens players met in Melbourne on Saturday, following a meeting of a new player council on Friday to discuss the escalating dispute, a source involved in the meetings told The Australian Financial Review on the condition of anonymity because negotiations were ongoing.
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