Players not getting the respect they deserve - Sinner

More money and bigger say - are top-10 stars being reasonable? World number four Coco Gauff, who has been involved in the players' campaign, said she could see herself joining a boycott "if everyone were to move as one and collaborate". Collective action has been used before in tennis.

In 1973, 81 of the top men's players, including defending champion Stan Smith, boycotted Wimbledon over the decision to suspend Yugoslavia's Nikola Pilic. Pilic was suspended by the Yugoslav Tennis Association, which claimed he had refused to play in a Davis Cup tie. The recently formed ATP - the governing body of men's tennis - said at the time that none of its members should compete if Pilic was banned.

Ultimately, 13 of the men's 16 seeds withdrew, leading to 29 qualifiers and 50 lucky losers competing in the main draw. It was a rare show of unity in the men's game in support of one player. The ATP also threatened to boycott Wimbledon in 2004 in another disagreement over revenue distribution, while women's players discussed taking strike action in 2006 , external over prize money at SW19.

Novak Djokovic attended a screening of a film about Nikola Pilic (right) in 2024 Gauff mentioned the collective action by WNBA players, who held off on negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement , external for 17 months, ultimately securing an increase in salaries and a deal to receive 20% of the women's basketball league's revenue. Some sports teams have boycotted major events over political issues. England men's cricket team boycotted their 2003 World Cup match against Zimbabwe in Harare because of Robert Mugabe's ruling regime, while 67 of 147 nations did not compete at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan a year earlier.