Alongside Novak Djokovic's comeback and some epic matches during the entire season, 2018 will be remembered for great turmoils in the leading tennis bodies, including Davis Cup reform and the announcement of the ATP World Team Cup that should kick off in January 2020 as the rival event. Also, a lot has been going on inside the ATP Board as well, especially considering the prize money contribution that has been one of the main issues ever since January when Novak Djokovic called for a greater share of the sport’s revenues.

The prize money on the ATP Tour has more than doubled in the last five years but Novak and a few other players wanted the better distribution of the total amount of money that tournaments and players share, leaving the final solution to be presented in the rest of the season.

Last week in Paris, the ATP’s Player Council led by is President Novak Djokovic has made the decision to sack Roger Rasheed, one of the Tour's governing body’s six directors! A former coach of Lleyton Hewitt, Gael Monfils, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Grigor Dimitrov was one of three ATP players representatives, chosen by the ten-man Players’ Council.

During the entire season, the battle was on between those who seeked a long-term prize money settlement and those who opted to back up a plan for 2019 only and Rasheed was on the side of the tournaments this time around, voting for that one-year deal that forced the players to sack him from their Board.

The Players’ Council voted 7-3 in favor of sending Rasheed out from the Board and the position to represent the players. More meetings have been confirmed for the next week during the ATP Finals in London but it has already been a very turbulent season on all the levels, with much more to come in the following weeks.

At the moment, on the table is an increase of 4% at ATP 250 level and 6% at Masters 1000 events and we are yet to find out the official numbers of the prize money increases for 2019 or for the next few years, depending on the final deal between the tournaments and players.